Two gutsy displays from two Aston Martins in this weekends Dubai 24 start 2025 off in earnest

Sunday, January 12, 2025

 




The twentieth running of the 24H Series running of the Dubai 24 has just concluded and the race again did itself proud for the Creventic organisers and its sixty plus, multi-classed entries although it didn’t necessarily prove itself that way for some.

Indeed, one of the three Aston Martin Racing Vantage GT3 Evo’s entered didn’t actually make it to the race itself on Saturday morning after final night practice for the #41 Comtoyou Racing entry saw accident damage sustained whilst Russian driver Viacheslav Gutak was at the wheel. 


Despite working upon the car overnight, the Belgian based team was eventually forced to retire the car just after the race had started and that sadly left Gutak, Dante Rappange, Nicholas Baert and Mex Jansen wondering about what might have been as they watched on with their #40 sister car.

That #40 Comtoyou Racing AMR of Jamie Day, Tom Van Rompuy, Matisse Lismont and Kobe Pauwels proved itself to be a class contender within their own GT3 Pr0-Am class during the opening half of the race before heavy contact from behind by the #710 Liepert Motorsport Lamborghini sent the #41 AMR destined for a too long a stop within its garage box for repairs to keep it anywhere in contention.


Eventually finishing eighteen laps down to the eventual winner, the #40 finished just outside of the top twenty in twenty - first position but that could easily have been so different had the car not been penalised so many times for track limits and/or speeding or overtaking whilst the race was under caution!! Despite of this, this was a great display from the young driver line up!

The best result however came from the #77 Earl Bamber Motorsport AMR Vantage GT3 team who, in their first 24-hour race eventually came home eighteenth overall and sixth within the GT3 Pro-Am class.


Despite running with a varied crew in terms of experience with two amateurs, one semi-Pro and one Pro driver, the Setiawan Santoso, Munkong and Tanart Sathienthirakul alongside Earl Bamber driven car went onto run a near flawless race to receive just one sixty second time penalty for overtaking during a caution period with no incidents to report on track!


Whilst we still await official confirmation from the Comtoyou Racing team about their 2025 campaigns, the EBM team will be back in 24H Series based racing next weekend at the 6hours of Abu Dhabi at the Yas Marina before being back to the Asian Le Mans Series with the same car but another crew at these two very circuits in early February.

Photo credits – 24H Series / Teams / social media
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