Race car for Palmer? (Maybe not then) UPDATED

Wednesday, January 11, 2017

R-Motorspotrt, the racing division of Swiss based Aston Martin St Gallen have been slowly but surely confirming most of the identities of their two car, six driver line up for February's 12hours of Bathurst.

Already confirmed within the Invitational Class entered Aston Martin Vantage GT8's first racing appearance outside of continental Europe will be the return to the Mountain of St Gallen's and R-Motorsport's co-owner Florian Kamelger who will be racing alongside Bathurst newcomers Markus Lungstrass (a Nordschleife driver coach) and Aston Martin Racing works driver Darren Turner.

Florian Kamelger

Marcus Lungstrass

Joining the GT8 crew will also be three drivers for the team's V8 Vantage GT4 entry , a car that is usually more akin to the twists and turns of the Nordschleife circuit. Racing in that car will be R-Motorsports co owner and also mountain returnee Andreas Baenziger and Australian

Andreas Baenziger

Peter Leemhuis who also returns to both the Mountain and the R-Motorsport team having won his class in his last venture out in the Liqui-Moly event and having last raced with the team in 2016 at the Nurburgring 24H where he Bainziger, Kamelger and Mal Rose finished third in class in the teams GT4.