Disappointing 24H Series Aston Martin Racing debut for the E2P racing team at Mugello

Monday, March 24, 2025

It was an early disappointing end to the opening round of the 24H Series European Series from Mugello for the E2P Racing Aston Martin Racing Vantage GT3 Evo crew after an uncharacteristic engine issue sidelined the team within the opening half to that race.

Having swapped from the Porsche to the Aston Martin chassis at the end of last season, the team had embarked upon a serious programme of pre-season testing with their new car and crew (with the additional racing input from AMR factory driver David Pittard) placing the #90 entry on a positive footing as the European series ventured to Italy for its opening twelve-hour round.

During both Free Practice and Qualifying, the Italian circuit was as beautiful as ever under the springtime sunshine but all of that had disappeared ahead of Saturday’s opening seven-hour stint to the twelve-hour race.

Starting P11 overall and competing within the GT3 Am class, the Pablo Burguera, Antonio Sainero and Oliver Campos driven car got off to a steady but sure start in the rain running as high as P5 overall in the opening ninety minutes or so.

Just behind the end of the opening three hours however, coming out of another Code 60 intervention, the #90 car of Burguera spun off but managed to stay on the tarmac. Returning to the correct direction meant the Spaniard had to go across the sodden grass infield and clearly the V8 engine wasn’t happy with its over revving to get back on track and the #90 car soon entered pit lane with a fire spitting engine out of the exhaust.

That was kind of where their opening race fell foul as the crew kept reporting power loss issues each time the car returned to the track and already by then, many laps down before the car was eventually withdrawn with before the end of the opening race session on Saturday.