The end of the European GT season is rapidly catching up and the GT World Challenge Europe Sprint Cup is just another of the SRO ran series doing just that as they will be rocking up to the Dutch coastal circuit of Zandvoort next week ahead of the penultimate round.
A record forty-five GT3 based crews are scheduled to do battle within that round’s two one-hour races as class and overall Drivers and Team’s championship titles still lay mostly unclaimed although some would need a minor miracle on the part of others to detract those away from the present leaders.
Five Aston Martin Racing Vantage GT3 powered teams from both the Comtoyou Racing (X3 cars) and the Walkenhorst Motorsport team as they again do battle across the Pro, Silver and Bronze classes but even one of these crews who now stand P2 within the silvers class, would almost need to win every race left for them to stand a chance of listing that end of season prize.
Last time out at Magny-Cours at the beginning of August, there was plenty of hope for these AMR crews as two had claimed respective class pole positions only for those to produce lower placed results with P3 in class the best result secured by any Aston Martin crew over that weekend. Traditionally, Zandvoort doesn’t usually allow the Vantage GT3 to show off its true potential either.
This week’s provisional entry list sees no apparent changes to the driver roster of any AMR with both Nicki Thiim and Kobe Pauwels again competing within their #007 in their Pro class, with the #21 Comtoyou Racing entry of Arthur Dorison and Oliver Soderstrom, the #34 Walkenhorst entry of Jamie Day and Mateo Villagomez and the #35 Walkenhorst of Gaspard Simon and Maxime Robin all competing within silver. The #11 Comtoyou Racing entry of Felice Jelmini and Marcelo Tomasoni complete the AMR powered line up within the bronze class.
Track action begins next Thursday with private testing before Free Practice on Friday, individual qualifying and race one of Saturday before concluding their programme of events after lunch on Sunday.
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