Six Aston Martin Vantage GT3s go again in GT World Challenge Europe Endurance Cups visit to the Nurburgring
Tuesday, August 26, 2025
Rounds so far from Paul Ricard, Monza and Spa Francorchamps leaves just this round from Germany and its more traditional end of season event from the Circuit De Catalunya near Barcelona left for their sixty plus strong entry to conclude their respective Pro, Gold, Silver and Bronze class championship battles.
Within the top-flight Pro class there will again be the #7 Comtoyou Racing Aston Martin Racing entry of Nicki Thiim, Marco Sorensen and Matia Drudi as well as the #34 Walkenhorst AMR Vantage GT3 of Christian Krognes, David Pittard and Henrique Chaves.
Results so far this season place the #7 crew in P6, twenty-three points behind the present class leaders whilst the #34 crew are unfortunately way down the order in P20 with just four championship points to their name.
There is again another car and crew from each team competing within the silver class where the situation within class is a near reflection of that within Pro as the #35 Walkenhorst crew of Matteo Villagomez, Oliver Soderstrom and Romain Leroux stand P9 in class – thirty five points behind the present class leaders whilst the #21 Comtoyou Racing entry of Jamie Day, Nicolas Baert and Kobe Pauwels sit P26 with just two points to their name. Whilst the #21 has been great up to and including Qualifying, incidents and accidents have prevented anything more than a single point apiece from Paul Ricard and Monza.
The Bronze class has been even crueller to the #270 Comtoyou Racing crew of Jessica Hawkins, Antoine Potty and Alexandre Leroy as whilst they finished P11 in class at the season opener, they failed to even make the start to the race at Monza thanks to an accident in an earlier test session before again failing to finish at the Spa 24.
There is happier new however within the Gold class as the #33 Verstappen.com (2 Seas Motorsport) prepared Vantage GT3 of Thierry Vermuelin, Harry King and Chris Lulham presently lead that class by a margin of twenty-five points from the chasing pack.
It’s now been over two months since the last round of the season from Spa Francorchamps as the series gets back underway on Thursday with private testing ahead of more formally timed sessions starting on Friday before Qualifying on Saturday and the wave off to this three-hour race on Sunday starting at 15:00hrs local.
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