Aston Martin welcomes up-coming talent to WEC
Thursday, September 17, 2015
Aston Martin Racing returns to the USA this weekend for the fifth round of the FIA World Endurance Championship (WEC), the Six Hours of the Circuit of the Americas, and brings in Benny Simonsen (DN) and welcomes back Jonny Adam (GB).
In addition, the team welcomes back Adam after a very strong run at the WEC Six Hours of the Nurburgring last month. The 31-year old, who won the British GT Championship last weekend, will race alongside Darren Turner (GB) in the #97 Hanergy-liveried Vantage GTE.
Aston Martin Racing runs five Aston Martin Vantage GTEs in the WEC and, this weekend, cars #95, #96 and #98 will continue to carry the iconic Gulf livery while the #99 returns to the same Valero livery that it ran at Silverstone at the start of the year. The red and yellow Hanergy livery will be transferred onto the #97 Vantage GTE and all cars welcome new sponsor Spirent Communications to the team.
“We know we have a huge challenge ahead of us this weekend for all five of our cars,” continued Gaw. “We struggled at Nürburgring, as a result of the BoP changes, but our team always faces challenges with positivity and determination so we can get the best result possible.”
The ‘Six Hours of the Circuit of the Americas’ takes place on Saturday 19 September at 1700hrs local time.
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Driver line-ups:
GTE PRO
95: Marco Sørensen, Christoffer Nygaard, Nicki Thiim
97: Darren Turner, Jonny Adam
99: Alex MacDowall, Fernando Rees, Richie Stanaway
GTE AM
96: Stuart Hall, Benny Simonsen, Francesco Castellacci,
98: Paul Dalla Lana, Pedro Lamy, Mathias Lauda
Source material - Aston Martin Racing
Photo credits - Aston Martin Racing / British GT