Mirage Racing hit the class podium twice at opening round of the FFSA GT4 Series

 

 

 

There may only be one Vantage GT4 crew within this full season’s French FFSA GT4 Series, but it was still a podium double straight out of the box for the Aston Martin Racing powered crew at this weekend’s opening round from Nogaro.

With the #5 Mirage Racing team again fielding the Am classed pairing of young Scot Jodie Sloss alongside the more mature Frenchman David Levy, this weekend’s opening round commitment first took them into downtown Nogaro for the series annual pilgrimage through the town with a meet and greet between the drivers, teams, race fans and local residents.

 

Delaying the race programme to include races over Easter Sunday and Bank Holiday Monday, the #5 pairing basically took off from where they had left off together last season to pedal identical qualification positions to one another – P13 overall out of a grid of twenty-seven cars and P3 in class.

Sometimes notoriously cold and wet at Nogaro for the Easter opener, this time around it was clear blue skies and sunshine on Sunday for the season opening one hour race where the race start passed off relatively quietly until two spinning Alpines brought out the Safety Car for the first time after early gains for Sloss.

 

Swapping over at the halfway mark, apart from one short Full Course Yellow for another car in the gravel, it was a relatively clean run in to the flag for Levy as they and Mirage Racing clocked up a season opening P2 in class finish – P7 overall.

Race two on Monday ran under identical conditions but with starting drivers reversed for all this time around and again, early contact between cars would bring out the Safety Car with another incident just before the pit stop window hampering the progress for Levy.

Sloss would eventually get her turn behind the wheel again and unable to progress himself up the order, she (and Levy) had to make do with an Overall P19 finish but still a P3 podium finish in class.

The next round to the season will be from Dijon-Prenois in mid-May.

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