Double podium in class for #35 Walkenhorst AMR in GT Masters
Sunday, July 14, 2024
Competing at the Nurburgring this weekend over what was a 250th race anniversary event for the series saw both the #34 car of Denis Bulatov and Mike David Ortmann compete within the overall Pro class as well as the #35 Pro-Am classed car of Hull and Hantke amongst the field of nineteen cars for this third round of the season.
Running a longer race format race of eighty minutes on Saturday in celebration to the series anniversary, the race suffered a delayed start as a guesting entry collided with the pit lane barrier on the warmup lap before finally getting underway behind perhaps the biggest pace vehicle ever seen within a GT class race!
Whilst running as high as fifth overall, the #34 would finally finish P9 overall (P4 in class) at this double pit stop punctuated race but the #35 would finish at the season best so far in P12 overall – that was P2 within Pro-Am for their first podium finish of the season.
Sundays second race of the weekend was a shorter affair being only forty minutes in length (but the race distance of the weekend was still the usual two hours) as they got underway under bright summer sunshine again.
Still a pit stop punctuated race, Bulatov was unable to wrestle his Aston Martin up higher than P8 whilst Hull again adopted the cautious route in the opening laps towards the rear to move up to P17.
At the end, the #34 again finished P9 overall (P8 in class) whilst the #35 car improved to P11 overall earning themselves a repeat visit to the Pro-Am podium having scooped their second P2 finish of the weekend.
Their next race weekend will be from Spa Francorchamps at the end of August.
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