Four Aston Martin powered crews expected as the ELMS and LMC visit Mugello next weekend
Saturday, September 21, 2024
With the ELMS again being the headline event on the programme, recent driver changes within many of the cars entered have become necessary for one reason or another but for the two Aston Martin Racing Vantage LMGT3 powered crews of both the #59 Racing Spirit of Leman and #97 Grid Motorsport by TF, its business as usual.
Last time out at Spa Francorchamps, it was to be two ‘just off the podium’ finishes for the #59 car of Derek DeBoer, Valentin Hasse-Clot, Casper Stevenson and the #97 car of Martin Berry, Lorcan Hanafin and Jonny Adam in P4 and P5 respectively which reduced the overall LMGT3 Drivers Championship lead for the Racing Spirit of Leman crew to just a single point going into this fifth of six rounds.
With a maximum points haul of fifty-two points still available over these final two rounds, there are still many other crews (including the #97 AMR powered crew) who still retain a mathematical chance of snatching the overall crown by the drop of the chequered flag at Portimao in mid-October.
The four hours of Mugello starts on Sunday 29th September.
Supporting them will again be the LMP3 and GT3 based cars of the Michelin Le Mans Cup Series where the Blackthorn Aston Martin Racing powered team will be entering a pair of the new Vantage GT3 cars for the first time this season.
Last time out at Spa Francorchamps, a back injury for David McDonald kept him away from the car with AMR factory driver Darren Turner helping team owner Claude Bovet within their #91 instead.
This week’s provisional entry list shows the team entering their #90 car for drivers James Swift and Ross Kaiser whilst Bovet is reunited again with McDonald within the #91 car amongst another class of eleven entries competing alongside a further twenty-seven LMP3 cars.
Kaiser is a familiar face around ACO rules paddocks with recent Asian Le Mans Series experience within an LMP3 this year whilst Swift also comes with ACO rules experience from the ELMS a few years ago before Ferrari Challenge racing of late. Both drivers come from the 360 Racing team.
Their one hour fifty-minute race will be run on Saturday afternoon next week.
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