CoTA about to deliver an interesting WEC event tomorrow and earlier BoP changes and a weather affected Qualifying
Saturday, September 06, 2025
With most platforms with both classes being affecting by balance of performance changes since the last round of the season in Brazil nearly two months ago, the #007 and #009 Heart of Racing Aston Martin Valkyrie Hypercars had seen their comparative lap times escalate them up the timing screen over the three Free Practice sessions whilst the Heart of Racing #27 and Racing Spirit of Leman Aston Martin Racing Vantage LMGT3 crews were certainly not having things their own way.
Rain finally interrupted what had been until then a total dry preparatory build up the six-hour Lone Star Le Mans event tomorrow with both Ian James and a returning Derek DeBoer again having to do what they could in LMGT3 Qualifying where the Englishman managed to get his #27 Heart of Racing Vantage LMGT3 through to Hyperpole by finishing P4 but the American could only manage a grid starting position of P16.
By the time that Zacharie Robichon then went out in the #27 car for a ten-minute shootout in Hyperpole, the rain was by then falling heavier and the Canadian could only manage a P10 starting position.
Next out were the two Aston Martin Valkyrie Hypercars with Harry Tincknell again driving the #007 car but with Alex Riberas aboard the #009 car this time around.
Again, rain was the issue and with some within the class electing early to run with full wets, the right way would only be proven by the end of that fifteen-minute session. Tincknell would end his day down in P15, but Riberas would again earn the #009 car an avenue in Hyperpole for the second time this season with a time worthy of a P8 placement.
Going out again into still deteriorating conditions, the #009 car had been running as high as P6 overall but had to settle for a season equalling best of P10 ahead of tomorrow’s race whatever Mother Nature will throw at the circuit and the thirty-six Hypercar and LMGT3 runners.
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