GT World Challenge Europe Sprint Cup rounds off this weekend in Spain for Comtoyou Racing

Thursday, October 10, 2024

Whilst most people’s attention will be turned Stateside and the final rounds of the IMSA Weathertech Sportscar Championship and the Michelin Pilot Challenge Series with the championship winning possibilities that lay before two Aston Martin Racing powered teams within each, there is also further track action back in Europe as the GT World Challenge Europe Sprint Cup also comes to a conclusion.

Competing around the Circuit de Catalunya near Barcelona, the Belgian based Comtoyou Racing team are again back in action with their four Aston Martin Racing Vantage GT3 as their Pro, Silver and Gold class pairing have two last gasps at class success within this weekend’s final two-hour long races within a series that has so far been far from kind to the team.

Blighted with race ending contact as well as continuous changes within the balance of performance window for the new Vantage GT3 Evo, none of the four crews and established any threat to any of the above classes despite the same car and team presently lead the way within the sister Endurance Cup Series that concludes in Saudi Arabia in November.

Before the cars embark upon that long journey, there is the small object of these two final races within the Sprint Series where a good showing is almost a most for the team as Matteo Drudi/Nicolas Baert will again race their #7 car within the topflight Pro class whilst Lorens Lecertua and Dante Rappange return with their #12 Silver entry and AMR factory driver David Pittard again pairs up with Matisse Lismont within their #21 Gold entry.

The teams #11 and what was listed as a Gold class entry has recently reverted back to a TBA status under both driver names after the usual crew of James Jakes and Sebastian Ogaard was removed from previous entry list announcements.

Track action will begin tomorrow (Friday) with Free Practice and Pre-Qualifying with Qualifying 1 and Race 1 on Saturday with the same for season finale on Sunday.

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