89X Motorsport best of AMR bunch at weather affected WRL visit to Road Atlanta

It was podium success for one of the Aston Martin Racing Vantage GT4 crews at last weekend’s World Racing League visit to Road Atlanta.

Supposedly, the event was supposed to have been another marathon eight plus seven-hour races for the sixty plus strong, multiple classed grid although Mother Nature within the State of Georgia soon had differing ideas as the series set about their second days action on Sunday.

This time featuring both of their AMR Vantage GT4’s, the 89X Motorsport team eventually ended Saturday’s longer race with a P2 overall finish for their #89 car, finishing just one lap down to the eventual winner after a whopping 263 lap run.

Their sister #289 AMR crew also finished within the overall top 10 a further three laps down whilst the #68 Speed Syndicate Aston eventually ended the race fifty-seven laps down (not sure if they were still running or not at that time, whilst the #909 Automatic Racing suffered a DNF.

Sunday’s second race was however, and almost complete washout as torrential rains arrived and made racing completely unachievable, even at the 30mph speeds cars were forced to reduce to when the storm from hit the circuit.

As a result, that seven-hour race was only able to achieve eighty laps here the #289 car was the highest Aston Martin finisher in P9, the #909 Automatic just behind in P11 and the #89 car P13. The #68 would eventually finish P20 overall within the GT) class, four laps down to the winner.

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