Little joy for the Comtoyou Racing team to round the year off within DTM and ADAC GT Masters

There was also disappointment for the Comtoyou Racing team at the weekend as they battled both the elements and a lowly performing Aston Martin Racing Vantage GT3 platform as they battled it out again in both the DTM and ADAC GT Masters Series from Hockenheim.

Within the headlining DTM Series, Nicki Thiim needed something nothing short of a minor miracle if he was to be in any position of lifting that coveted title despite having lead the drivers’ championship at the midway stage to the season after back-to-back race wins were met with serious Balance of performance challenges alongside that of the series own success penalties.

 

Within what was a pretty much constant soaking of the former home to the German Grand Prix, both Thiim and Nicolas Baert battled things out last time but with even Thiim qualifying no higher than P15 – things were never going to go their way.

With both hour-long races then done, their best race result was for a P14 finish for Thiim in the final race for him to eventually finish sixth overall within the Drivers Championship with Baert coming in twenty first despite having raced all sixteen races. There was, however, small consolation for the team as they secured the Pit Stop Challenge Award for their efforts again upon their #8 car of Baert.

 

It was a similar tune with their #39 ADAC GT Masters AMR Vantage GT3 entry of Jamie Day and Baudouin Detout as they eventually came home a still very credible tenth overall within the Drivers’ Championship in what was still Detouts debut GT3 powered season.

 

Contact and a puncture during race one of the weekend hampered things there and despite a BoP break and a front row start for Day ahead of the season concluding race, another P12 overall was the best result that they could muster within the changeable conditions at the circuit at the time.

Photo credits – Team / ADAC