Straight off the back of the Spa 24 hour event where the Belgian team had four such cars entered into that event and where none of them actually finished thanks to either mechanical defect but mainly accident induced damage (not of their making), it would have been something of a rush job to get these two cars turned around in time for this rounds track action which started today.
Nicolas Baert and Gilles Magnus are back within their familiar #8 and #7 cars respectively and both have come out looking racing during today’s earlier Free Practice 1 and 2 sessions where Magnus ended the day second quickest and with his team mate just a quarter of a second down in P8.
With the Norisring being a fast, furious but in places extremely tight street improvised circuit, track position will be key ahead of the two races this weekend with Safety Car periods highly likely.
Although not publicised, this performance change for the two Aston Martin’s has probably come about through a Balance of Performance change in their favour after an extremely under-powered performance last time out at Zandvoort at the beginning of June.
The start of the weekend’s events appear encouraging ……...!!
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