Heart of Racing going for gold in GTD Pro at Petit Le Mans season finale

Now just ninety-nine points behind the drivers championship leader, Gunn is this weekend joined by his usual co-driver (when WEC duties permitted) Alex Riberas as well as Roman de Angelis who himself only stepped up to the full GTD Pro class for the first time last time out Indianapolis having raced within the GTD class before that. As a consequence of that, the teams #27 GTD entry driver line up has been reformatted to include Mario Farnbacher, Zacharie Robichon and the return of Marco Sorensen to the team.

The narrow points margin is similarly reflected within both the Manufacturers and Teams Championships so the stakes could not be higher for all especially with the number of drivers/teams and manufacturer suitably placed to capitalise upon any mistakes of misfortunes of those up front.

Also being the final endurance round of the season, we also welcome back the #44 Magnus Racing AMR Vantage GTD of John Potter, Spencer Pumpelly and Andy Lally for their penultimate outing within the IMSA series after their recent announcement of stepping away from GT racing after next year’s Rolex 24 at Daytona.

These three Aston Martins will be running within a full IMSA grid line up of fifty-four entries including eleven GTP’s, ten LMP2’s, thirteen GTD Pro cars and twenty GTD cars around the 2.54mile undulating circuit before finishing in total darkness late into Saturday evening local.

Track action for these guys begins on Thursday with three Free Practice sessions before Qualifying on Friday and a race start scheduled for 12:10hrs local on Saturday after which the race will present itself as a literal winner takes all event for one lucky crew.

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