Volante Rosso showing the pace of their older AMR Vantage GT3 at Bathurst

Saturday, February 01, 2025

 


The #14 Volante Rosso Aston Martin Racing Vantage GT3 has certainly pulled upon the heartstrings of local race fans during the preceding sessions of this weekend’s opening round of the Intercontinental GT Challenge around the ionic circuit of Mount Panorama in Bathurst, Australia.

Fielded by the ‘near’ locally based team from Sydney, the older generation 16A variant of the successful AMR platform competes within the silver class with its diverse young gun driver line up of Jamie Day, Mateo Villagomez and Jaylyn Robotham.


Revealed earlier this week sporting a very fetching and discerningly familiar orange, blue and black livery of the Gulf Oils company, this entry is the first Aston Martin to compete at the circuit in this series since R Motorsport and Garage 59 did likewise back in 2020.

Six Free Practice sessions later (and with Jamie Day leading the field after the second), the twenty-two-car mixed car grid went into Qualifying yesterday to set the grid ahead of Sunday’s early start to the Meguire's 12 Hours of Bathurst.


With the ‘world-class’ professional drivers unsurprisingly at the top of the timing screen, the #14 Volante Rosso AMR will start from P18 on the grid with a lap time just 1.7 seconds off that of pole position. Their first marker of success would be to ‘survive’ those opening hectic laps around the circuit in the dark of Sunday morning.

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