An Aston Martin Racing entry finally takes on Pikes Peak this weekend

 

The Pikes Peak International Hill Climb event has finally kicked off in earnest at its namesake location in Colorado, USA where there will be one new Aston Martin Racing Vantage GT4 Evo strangely within the midst of the GT4 Trophy by Yokohama class.

Driven by Steve Wetterau and supported by the BBI Autosport team, aside from a few ‘club’ events at the California based Thermal Club, this will be the first competitive outing for the Pikes Peak Rookie Wetterau.

Despite that, training runs up the near 12.5 mile ‘street’ course have been going well with the #85 car leading his GT4 Trophy class in the latest batch of training runs this week with a best of 4:19:334 giving him a 16 second cushion from his first to the last car in class on the lower stages.

Today (Thursday) see the GT4 class move onto a similar time attack process upon the middle stages of the route and will continue in a similar vein for the rest of the week before ‘race day’ on Sunday.

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