Spa 24 Champions Comtoyou Racing back in Sprint Cup mode as GT World Challenge Europe visits Hockenheim (UPDATED)
Wednesday, July 17, 2024
After rounds at both Brands Hatch and most recently at Misano, the overall result for the team at Spa has come as a timely injection of confidence in both themselves and their new Aston Martin Racing Vantage GT3 race car platform after disappointing results for the team at the previous rounds for their trio of entries.
Despite a front row start for the Pro class #007 car of Mattia Drudi and Nicolas Baert at the opening race of the season at Brands Hatch, that car sadly failed to finish the race with the #12 Silver Cup entry of Dante Rappange and Charles Clark the best of the three Astons down in P20 ahead of the tail end Charlie of the #21 Gold Cup entry of James Jakes and Matisse Lismont. Race two was an improvement as all three cars improved upon those performances.
Next time out in Italy it was much of the same but with the revised #12 Silver Cup entry of Lorens Lecertua and Dante Rappange finishing as high as P19 overall and P4 in class.
Next time out in Italy it was much of the same but with the revised #12 Silver Cup entry of Lorens Lecertua and Dante Rappange finishing as high as P19 overall and P4 in class.
This weekend’s events at the Hockenheimring in Germany will see no change to the two drivers crews that competed at Misano as the three Aston Martin Racing crews will be joined by a further thirty GT3 crews for this weekend’s two one-hour races.
UPDATE
Since posting this, the team have since confirmed the return of their fourth AMR Vantage GT3 as well as a slight driver adjustment to accommodate that.
The #007 Pro entry remains the same (Drudi/Baert)
#11 Gold entry is now James Jakes and Petru Razvan Umbrarescu
#12 Silver entry remains the same (Lecertua/Rappange)
#21 is a Gold entry for Matisse Lismont and David Pittard
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