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🇩🇪 Maximilian Götz

Racing driver from Germany. GT World Challenge Europe, Mercedes-AMG Team GetSpeed. Two-time champion.
Driver facts
Full name
Maximilian Götz
Born
4 February 1986(b. 1986)
Nationality
Germany
Current team
Mercedes-AMG Team GetSpeed
Series
GT World Challenge Europe
Status
Active
Championships
22021, 2025
Career wins
7
Career podiums
32
Career starts
141
Career DNFs
4
Racer Rating
5,422
Maximilian Götz
Source: Wikimedia Commons
Racer Rating
5,422
Rank 685 of 38,983 indexed, +58 this season
FIA Categorisation
Platinum
FIA driver categorisation
Source: fia.com
Synthesized from 1 source, updated 0h ago

Maximilian Götz is a racing driver from Germany who competes in GT World Challenge Europe for Mercedes-AMG Team GetSpeed. Götz is a two-time champion (2021, 2025), with 7 wins and 32 podiums from 141 starts.[1]

A Racer Rating of 5,422 ranks Götz 685th of 38,983 indexed drivers, on an Elo scale where the strongest reach the high 8,000s. It is built from every indexed race in the driver's file.

Sources: [1] Indexed race classifications
2026 form
Last 20 races, finish position (higher is better)
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Recent results
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2026-04-116 Hours of Paul RicardGT World Challenge EuropeP7+58
Career-best drives
Ranked by rating won, which prices the opposition
Rating wonRaceSeriesFinish
+164Nürburgring Nordschleife 2017Nürburgring Langstrecken-SerieP2
+155Nürburgring Nordschleife 2016Nürburgring Langstrecken-SerieP4
+154Nürburgring Nordschleife 2016Nürburgring Langstrecken-SerieP3
+149DEKRA Lausitzring Grand Prix 2021DTMP1
+144Monza 2021DTMP2
Circuits
Rating per start against their own form that season
Raises their game
Nürburgring8 starts+18
Hockenheim18 starts+13
Spa-Francorchamps4 starts+10
Monza4 starts+5
Struggles
Zandvoort4 starts-11
Season by season
SeasonSeriesTeamRacesWinsPodiumsDNFsPolesPointsPosGain/LossRating
2026▸GT World Challenge EuropeMercedes-AMG Team GetSpeed100000—+585,422
2025▸British GT Championship2 Seas Motorsport926000P1−2905,364
▸GT World Challenge EuropeBoutsen VDS200000P37−42
▸Bathurst 12 HourTeam Craft-Bamboo Racing100000—−6
2024▸GT World Challenge EuropeBoutsen VDS1413010P6+3225,702
▸Nürburgring Langstrecken-SerieMercedes-AMG Team Bilstein200000—+21
▸Nürburgring 24 HoursMercedes-AMG Team HRT100000—+72
2023▸ADAC GT MastersHaupt Racing Team602010P9−3475,287
▸GT World Challenge EuropeMercedes-AMG Team Akkodis ASP300000P35+68
▸Nürburgring Langstrecken-SerieMercedes-AMG Team GetSpeed200000P28−106
▸GT World Challenge AmericaMercedes-AMG Team Craft-Bamboo Racing101000—+65
▸Nürburgring 24 HoursMercedes-AMG Team GetSpeed100000—+85
2022▸DTMMercedes-AMG Team WINWARD Racing1501000P10−4065,523
▸ADAC GT MastersMadpanda Motorsport400000P26−346
▸GT World Challenge EuropeMercedes-AMG Team GetSpeed302000P24+71
▸Nürburgring 24 HoursMercedes-AMG Team GetSpeed101000—+73
▸Nürburgring Langstrecken-SerieMercedes-AMG Team GetSpeed100000P29−96
2021▸DTMMercedes-AMG Team HRT1538000P1+1,2296,227
▸GT World Challenge EuropeHub Auto Racing100000P42−193
▸Nürburgring 24 HoursMercedes-AMG Team GetSpeed101000—+116
▸Nürburgring Langstrecken-SerieMercedes-AMG Team GetSpeed Mercedes-AMG100000P31+4
2020▸Nürburgring Langstrecken-SerieMercedes-AMG Team GetSpeed Mercedes-AMG200000P16+2195,445
▸Nürburgring 24 HoursMercedes-AMG Team GetSpeed100100—−93
2019▸Nürburgring Langstrecken-SerieGetSpeed Performance Mercedes-AMG201000P18+1945,052
▸GT World Challenge EuropeMercedes-AMG Team GruppeM Racing100000P37+92
▸Nürburgring 24 HoursMercedes-AMG Team Mann Filter100100—−57
2018▸Nürburgring Langstrecken-SerieMercedes - AMG Team HTP Motorsport Mercedes-AMG201000P23+2264,731
2017▸Nürburgring Langstrecken-SerieHARIBO Racing Team Mercedes - AMG Mercedes-AMG201000P26+284,580
2016▸Nürburgring Langstrecken-SerieHARIBO Racing Team - AMG Mercedes-AMG201000P21+3094,624
2013▸Nürburgring Langstrecken-SerieGT Corse412200P14−3764,151
2008▸Formula 3 Euro SeriesRC Motorsport500000P21−1014,527
2007▸Formula 3 Euro SeriesR.C. Motorsport700000P17−484,628
2005▸Formula 3 Euro SeriesASM Formule 3801000P15+454,676
2004▸Formula 3 Euro SeriesKolles1900000P17+3,2814,631
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Head-to-head
Most-raced and strongest-beaten: times Götz finished ahead vs behind
RivalRatingRacedAheadBehindRecord
🇩🇪 Maro EngelFIA Platinum6,38554193535%
🇦🇹 Lucas AuerFIA Platinum5,44349232647%
🇿🇦 Sheldon van der LindeFIA Platinum5,88947222547%
🇩🇪 Sven MüllerFIA Gold5,35247232449%
🇦🇹 Kelvin Van der LindeFIA Platinum5,63646212546%
🇩🇪 Marco WittmannFIA Platinum5,73945172838%
🇫🇷 Franck PereraFIA Platinum4,98245153033%
🇩🇪 Luca StolzFIA Platinum5,44342192345%
🇨🇭 Patric NiederhauserFIA Platinum5,25738191950%
🇨🇭 Ricardo FellerFIA Platinum4,86738211755%
🇬🇧 Lewis HamiltonFIA Platinum, 9× champion8,638232219%
🇩🇪 Nico RosbergFIA Platinum, 2× champion7,9001321115%
🇳🇿 Liam LawsonFIA Platinum7,300125742%
Raced wheel-to-wheel, not as team-mates
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684🇮🇹 Luca BadoerFormula 15,422
685🇩🇪 Maximilian GötzGT World Challenge Europe5,422
686🇫🇷 Patrick LemariéInternational Formula 30005,421
687🇩🇪 Manfred WinkelhockFormula 15,420
688🇷🇺 Mikhail AleshinGT World Challenge Europe5,420
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Maximilian Götz is an established professional sportscar driver rated 5,556, placing him among the top tier of full-time competitors in GT and endurance racing. His FIA Platinum categorisation reflects a career spent primarily in the world's most demanding shared-driving championships. Across 120 starts spanning from 2004 to the present, he has accumulated six wins and 25 podiums, competing most frequently in GT World Challenge Europe and DTM. His 2021 DTM title, won in three-point contention with Liam Lawson, remains his highest individual achievement in single-seat competition; his 2025 British GT Championship victory in the GT3 class represents his current peak in endurance racing.[1]

Götz's record against his peers reflects a driver who sits firmly in the professional middle, capable on his day but not dominant. In 45 shared races with Lucas Auer, a 2024 GT World Challenge Europe champion, Götz finished ahead 19 times but behind 26. Against Maro Engel, another top-tier Platinum-graded rival, the disparity widened to nine wins versus 27 losses across 36 races. His head-to-head record against Kelvin van der Linde, the 2025 GT World Challenge Europe champion, showed closer parity at 18 finished-ahead against 16 behind. Notably, Götz has occasionally out-raced much stronger drivers; he finished ahead of Lewis Hamilton twice and Sebastian Vettel five times, though these instances were scattered across career encounters rather than sustained patterns. His 2004 to 2008 spell in Formula 3 Euro Series produced just one podium from 39 starts, indicating he established his career primarily through sportscar racing rather than single-seater progression.[2]

Currently active in 2025 and 2026, Götz continues to compete at the sharp end of British GT and other endurance series. His recent success in the British GT Championship, where he has taken two wins from nine starts this season, shows he remains competitive at the professional level, though his average finishing position of P9.4 across his entire career underscores that he is a capable, race-winning professional rather than a series-leading figure.

Sources: [1] Indexed race classifications[2] Wikipedia
Gallery, 2025 Donington Park Test 2 page 3[1]
British GT Championship
29 Jul 2026
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First Career Win For Maximilian Götz | Lausitzring DTM Race 2 | Highlights Duncan Robinson (FR1H4Pavly)[2]
Fathom Journal
26 Jun 2026
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Bathurst 12 update: Gotz leads opening leg as Skippy strikes[3]
Auto Action
15 Feb 2026
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