More bad luck down under for Volante Rosso in GT World Challenge Australia
Saturday, October 19, 2024
With the locally based team initially posting that Andre Canard would be joining their young Alex Gardner behind the wheel of their #14 Aston Martin Racing Vantage GT3, that was later changed to Jamie Day joining Canard as Gardner would be sitting out the final two rounds of the series to concentrate upon his academic studies.
That is or at was as far as we knew.
With little information again coming out of the series, the timing results for each Free Practice and Qualifying sessions that preceded yesterday’s race would suggest issues again arose within the squad.
Free Practice one would see the #14 car enter just nine laps (compared to a maximum of thirty-three laps from the other thirteen runners but then only five laps within the next as well as being fourteen seconds off the pace. Then there was the matter of the timing screen showing that Day was partnered by Andrew Haryanto and not Canard.
With little information again coming out of the series, the timing results for each Free Practice and Qualifying sessions that preceded yesterday’s race would suggest issues again arose within the squad.
Free Practice one would see the #14 car enter just nine laps (compared to a maximum of thirty-three laps from the other thirteen runners but then only five laps within the next as well as being fourteen seconds off the pace. Then there was the matter of the timing screen showing that Day was partnered by Andrew Haryanto and not Canard.
The #14 car entered no Qualifying laps and did not enter the race itself for presumably a result of those issues.
It does, however, appear that Day’s long-distance travel from home in Dubai to Australia did eventually get some race time in as he entered the Radical Cup Australia round at the circuit to secure both a P5 and P12 result.
The final round of the season will be from Bathurst in mid-November.
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