Monza will be pivotable before the GT World Challenge Europe Endurance Cup moves onto Jeddah for a November finale
Wednesday, September 18, 2024
Racing what will be their penultimate round of the season, it will be another state of maximum attack from all fifty-two entries before the many of the available class championships get decided at the season finale many miles away this time in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia at the end of November.
With endurance rounds so far from Paul Ricard, the 24 Hours of Spa Francorchamps and most recently from the Nurburgring, it is still the #007 Comtoyou Racing AMR Pro entry of Mattia Drudi, Marco Sorensen and Nicki Thiim leading the Overall Drivers Championship table thanks to their points haul (and overall race win) at Spa.
Having recovered to pick up a disappointing eight points in Germany, the #007 crew lead the chasing Audi trio of Christophe Hasse, Ricardo Feller and Alex Aka by just fifteen points with these two rounds remaining.
Having recovered to pick up a disappointing eight points in Germany, the #007 crew lead the chasing Audi trio of Christophe Hasse, Ricardo Feller and Alex Aka by just fifteen points with these two rounds remaining.
Within the other six Aston Martin Racing powered entries from both the Comtoyou Racing and Walkenhorst Motorsport entries, this weekend’s entry list sees a couple of slight changes to their driver rosters from that of the Nurburgring lats time out.
The most notable will be that AMR factory driver Valentin Hasse-Clot will deputise for his fellow AMR factory driver in Ross Gunn as the Englishman will be busy racing for a possible IMSA Weathertech Sportscar Championship crown with the Heart of Racing team over at Indianapolis this weekend – the Frenchman will be joining both David Pittard and Henrique Chaves within the #34 Walkenhorst Pro entry.
The other change appear to be (and contrary to the published entry list) within the #11 bronze class entered Comtoyou Racing entry as both John De Wilde and James Jakes will now be joined by Dutch racer Niels Koolen instead of the advertised Job Van Uitert after he swaps to the #21 Gold entered car alongside Charles Clark and Matisse Lismont.
The remaining #12 silver class Comtoyou Racing entry of Nicolas Baert/Sebastian Ogaard/Kobe Pauwels remains the same as do the other Walkenhorst AMR entries of Maxime Robin/Romain Leroux and Lorcan Hanafin aboard their #35 silver class entry and Mex Jenson, Tim Creswick and Ben Green aboard their #36 bronze class entry.
Other than the #007 car in the Pro class, only the #11 Comtoyou bronze entry appears to have any championship prospects in the Middle East should results go in their favour this weekend.
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