Two Aston Martin crews prepare for what will probably be a wet six hours of Portimao

 

Mother Nature has continued to throw something of a curved ball to the multi-classed contingent at this weekend’s GT Winter Series non-championship round and its six hours of Portimao.

Early indications had three Aston Martin Racing Vantage GT3 crews as being listed within the provisional entry list but unsurprisingly, the #21 Comtoyou Racing entry that didn’t have any drivers listed against it on Thursday has failed to materialise but that didn’t mean that their other #007 entry was short of a few drivers either.

 

 

Recording that drivers Aaron Muss, Oliver Soderstrom and Baudouin Detout as drivers entering the event, that didn’t keep away Kyle Marcelli from getting in some early European circuit laps ahead of his debut within the GT world Challenge Europe Endurance Cup season that starts later in April as well, with Detout also confirming a GT3 based season with the Belgian based team within something yet to be announced.

Joining them at the circuit, although in no need for any advanced private testing are the Spanish based E2P Racing team and their #90 AMR Vantage GT3 that we expect their drivers of Pablo Burgueira, Antonio Sainero and Oliver Campos to compete with within the 24H Series again this season.

 

With private practice moving into Free Practice before individual qualifying earlier today, most drivers of the eighteen strong grid had seen more than their fair share of both wet and dry running throughout the day.

The nett result was that the #007 would claim the inter-marque battle by starting the race from the second row of the grid in P4 with the #90 E2P Racing car a couple of rows back in P7 ahead of the 11:00hrs (local) start tomorrow.

 

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