A late call up for Jamie Day at the Abu Dhabi 6hr

Monday, January 20, 2025

 


Untimely sickness thwarted the Earl Bamber Motorsport’s second race attack at the 24H Series Middle East Trophy at the Yas Marina Circuit in Abu Dhabi at the weekend, forcing a late driver change onto the Asian based team.

Again, fielding their #77 Aston Martin Racing Vantage GT3 Evo for drivers Setiawan Santoso and brothers Mukong and Tanart Sathienthirakul after their series debut together just the weekend before at the Dubai 24, overnight sickness between Qualifying and race day for Thai TCR Asia racer Mukong meant that a late replacement had to be called in.


Having the benefit of residing close by back in Dubai, 2024 Aston Martin Racing Drivers Academy winner Jamie Day was close at hand to lend that assistance as the young Englishman struck off another racing first for himself as he sets about confirming his 2025 (presumably GT3 based) programme and continued his own programme of events within the Creventic run series having raced an identical AMR Vantage GT3 at Dubai with the Comtoyou Racing team.

However, that driver change put paid to their collective qualifying efforts of Saturday to land them starting Sunday’s race from near last in the grid of fifty-two cars in fortieth position.


At the end of the first of a six-hour race, the #77 car was already up within the top twenty overall before falling back outside of that margin by the time the race had reached its halfway stage. That position remained about the same as the drivers continued to cycle through their available stint lengths before the car was eventually brought home in P21 overall, nineth within their new Pro-Am class but only four laps behind the overall winner.

That and their P6 result in class from Dubai has left the team third overall in class by the end of this mini–Middle East Trophy Series. The team will now redirect their thoughts and attentions to the next four races of the Asian Le Mans Series that will be ran at both Dubai Autodrome and Yas Marina in February.

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