Comtoyou Racing round off in Germany this weekend in both DTM and ADAC GT Masters

Three more German based GT3 and GT4 series will also race to a seasonal conclusion this weekend as the DTM, ADAC GT Masters and ADAC GT4 Germany Series all head to Hockenheim for their final two races of the season.

Working from top to bottom, this second year within the DTM Series has been a very frustrating one for the Comtoyou Racing team and their two Aston Martin Racing Vantage GT3’s of both Nicki Thiim and Nicolas Baert.

 

Whilst Baert has again struggled for pace for much of the season with only the periodic and brief episodes of pace during qualifying at some rounds, all the headlines have been made with Thiim and his #007 car taking pole positions and double race wins to be in real contention for the championship going into these final rounds.

However, and like all within the twenty-one strong grid, that pace has been all too quick in terms of type of balance of performance in operation within the series that quickly saw Thiim (and others around him at the top of the order) somewhat ‘hobbled’ for pace as at the subsequent rounds – something that eventually saw those championship possibilities end of low scoring performances.

 

As a result of that, this weekend’s two hour long and solo driven races will be just for pride (and hopefully further preparation ahead of a 2028 assault upon the series by the Belgian based team as Thiim would need to score maximum points with all five drivers ahead of him basically failing to score. Stranger things have happened before in other series – maybe it’s just that liitle bit too far within DTM but never say never!!

 

Comtoyou Racing will also be fielding another one of their fleet of AMR Vantage GT3’s as Jamie Day and Baudouin Detout round off their debut season within the DTM supporting ADAC GT Masters Series with their #38 entry.

For Luxembourger Detout, this has also been his first full season of racing within the GT3 class having only swapped over to GT4’s just a couple of years ago so their own podium finishes along the way so far have been much deserved.

 

After the five previous rounds so far, this combo of drivers presently stands sixth within the overall drivers’ championship table as well as sixth within their own silver cup and Teams classes as well as P7 for Day within the Road to the DTM sub-class.

Although they now cannot win anything outright – two decent finishes this weekend could easily see the pairing rise up the order by the close of play on Sunday.

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