Five Aston Martins at the Nurburgring but needing something of a minor miracle to take a title fight to the final round

 

This weekend’s main racing event as far as Aston Martin Racing powered crews are concerned will be the penultimate round of the GT World Challenge Europe Endurance Cup Series from the Nurburgring, Germany.

Amongst the fifty-five entries listed will be just the five AMR Vantage GT3 runners from either the Comtoyou Racing or Walkenhorst Motorsport teams after the Ecurie Ecosse Blackthorn team confirmed their absence from the event a few weeks ago.

 

With endurance rounds now signed off for Paul Ricard, Monza and the Spa 24- it just leaves both this weekend’s visit to Germany and the seasonal finale from Portimao to see out yet another season.

Championship wise, the #7 Comtoyou Racing Pro class entry for Nicki Thiim, Marco Sorensen and Mattia Drudi still stand as AMR’s best contenders as they sit second within the overall championship table, but they would need something of a minor miracle to overcome the forty-one points deficit to the leading Mercedes-AMG powered crew. With just two normal format races remaining, there will be just a maximum of fifty points available to them to achieve that feat.

 

 

The other Pro classed Aston Martin from the Walkenhorst team for drivers Christian Krognes, Jamie Day and Henrique Chaves have endured something of a nightmare season so far which has even seen them miss the opening round due to a practice session accident. Since then, the #34 crew have accrued just seven points.

Within the silver class, both the #21 Comtoyou Racing entry for drivers Kobe Pauwels, Oliver Soderstrom and Sebastian Baud find themselves just outside of the top ten in eleventh on a tally so far of twenty-eight points whilst the #35 Walkenhorst car of Mateo Villagomez, Ethan Ischer and Gaspard Simon find themselves further back in P23 with just five points.

 

The #11 bronze class entry from the Comtoyou Racing team for drivers AJ Muss and Marcelo Tomasoni sees the crew approach the end of what has become already a very turbulent debut within the series with bad luck usually outweighing driver mistakes. For this round Kyle Marcelli will also be replaced by Brazilian racer Sergio Sette Camara.

Track action will begin on Friday with both private testing and the bronze driver test sessions before Free Practice 1 and 2 on Saturday before individual qualifying and the start of this three hour race on Sunday at 15:00hrs local.

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