Extra-ordinary scenes at the Fuji Speedway in Japan earlier today as the FIA World Endurance Championship was forced to cancel by its Hypercar and LMGT3 Qualifying and Hyperpole sessions due to the intense weather conditions at the circuit.

Although not unexpected, the intensity of the rain massively reduced visibility yet along having large amounts of water on track, but it was the combination of both that quickly forced the hand of Race Control just as the LMGT3 cars left the pits for their first session. As a result, all grid starting positions have been determined by each cars fastest lap time over the three preceding Free Practice sessions.

 

These set of circumstances gives the situation of where both Heart of Racing Aston Martin Valkyrie Hypercars should have earned themselves their best ever positions within the championship where the #007 car of Harry Tincknell and Tom Gamble was in front of their sister #009 car of Alex Riberas and Marco Sorensen only for a penalty to drop the #007 car to fourth in the order – ironically for an incident with their sister #27 Aston Martin Racing Vantage GT3 car with the #009 car starting from P6.

That #27 car of Ian James, Zacharie Robichon and Matia Drudi will start tomorrows six hours of Fuji from P16 whilst the sister #23 car of Gray Newell, Eduardo Barrichello and Jonny Adam will again start in front of them in P15.

 

All rather confusing!

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After all the pre-event hype about who could win what within the outstanding classes of the British GT Championship’s final round this weekend from Brands Hatch, the reality of realising just what you have got underneath sometimes paints a differing picture as the three Aston Martin Racing powered crews with championship winning possibilities all now face an uphill battle in tomorrow’s race.

Racing around the full 2.43-mile Grand Prix circuit, the eleven GT4 powered crews and eleven GT3 powered all had two glorious days of track preparation yesterday and today with private testing, Free Practice and Pre-Qualifying before going into those two ten-minute qualifying runs per class this afternoon.

 

Earlier in the day, the sole AMR Vantage GT3 contender from the Beechdean AMR team with drivers Andrew Howard and Ross Gunn ended this morning’s Free Practice with hope, finishing fourth fastest in class but elected to make changes during the next hour-long Free Practice session. Despite being quicker than their last session, so was everyone else and the ended the morning sessions P10 in class.

The #21 MK Racing Vantage GT4 of Will Orton and Jessica Hawkins are also in the mix for both the Overall GT4 Drivers Championship title as well as their own Silver Class title going into this finale, but they finished Free Practice only sixth quickest overall, P4 in class.

Moving into Pre-Qualifying, that followed a similar vein for the duo as another frustrating session went by where they finished that one P7 overall in GT4, but this time P3 in class. Just maybe, they needed to concentrate a little bit more on the task at hand rather than all the TV cameras following them about the paddock today – just a personal observation! We realise that sponsors need their exposure to back up their investment within the team/drivers but there comes a point…………!

 

Having already scooped the GT4 Pro-Am Drivers title at the last round from Donington Park a couple of weeks ago, the #27 Grange Racing with FSR of Dan Lavery and Darren Turner are also in the hunt for the Overall GT4 Drivers Championship as well.

Operating on a completely different mantra to those at MK Racing, this team have been the silent assassins all season, quietly picking off class wins and podiums along the way (despite a poor start at the season opener from Silverstone) to be in the position now that they are. With rumour circulating around of their progression to a Vantage GT3 next season, the team were keeping their own feet firmly on the ground today to go into Qualifying after being P7 overall/P3 in class and P2 overall/P1 in class respectively over the previous two hours of running.

 

Not this time involved in any championship battles leaves us the #40 Townsend Racing and #97 GBR Stratton Motorsport Vantage GT4 entries where change was afoot within the #40 car as just James Townsend was on parade for driving duties this weekend. Not quite sure what has gone on there but the man behind the name was very much on his own today as he and his #40 struggled to stay on the track. Repeated offs through the gravel at Paddock Hill Bend were later added to with a spin at Stirling’s later in the day to further dent and already dented confidence within his car.

Then there is the #97 car of full season entrant John Hartshorne alongside Jordan Collard for only his second race of the year as he filled the gap left by the previous drivers budget enforced departure from the team. Despite looking racey at Donington Park last time out but the #40 and #97 crews struggled for pace today to end the morning at or about the foot of the table.

 

Then came Qualifying……….

GT3 first with Howard running what should be his last top flight session before taking something of a step back from headline racing series which saw him deliver a best lap time some 1.5 seconds off the pace before handing over to Gunn for the second run. Unfortunately for the AMR factory driver, an off at the Clark Curve saw the #007 car nose into the safer barrier to bring out the red flag with just over four minutes remaining.

Fortunately the damage didn’t appear to be significant so we don’t think there is any danger of the crew missing tomorrows race but they will have to chase just that little bit harder if they are to overcome their points deficit in tomorrow’s two hour race from P8 on the grid (P5 in class).

 

Whilst there was a further spin for Townsend at Paddock Hill Bend (also bringing out the red flag), the #27 crew was again the best of the Vantage GT4 qualifiers in P5 overall with the #21 MK Racing AMR on the next row back in seventh. The #40 did still outdo the #97 car to claim P10 with the Hartshorne/Collard car bringing up the rear.

 

Tomorrow’s race is waved off at 13:30hrs local.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

With IMSA’s final round of the season from Michelin Raceway Road Atlanta comes the final race of the year for the GS and TCR field of the Michelin Pilot Challenge Series as thirty-one GS (GT4 based) and fourteen TCR based entries will be making their way over to the Braselton area of Georgia for their own final two-hour race of the year.

One fewer Aston Martin Racing powered entry this time around compared to the last from Indianapolis Motor Speedway just two weeks ago, next weekend sees just one of those six AMR Vantage GT4 powered entries with any mathematical chance of winning the overall GS class title at the end of next Saturdays race but even that would need something of a minor miracle to affect the running of those six crews ahead of Hannah Grisham and Hannah Greenemeir within the championship.

 

Putting it bluntly, the #26 Heart of Racing AMR would need to win plus all those drivers ahead would need to fail to score in a sliding scale of importance from top to bottom to where the two Hannahs then stand within the table after they could only finish sixth from their pole position starting position.

Going onto the last round at the IMS, there was also the hopes of the #66 crew of Trenton Estap and Allen Patten within their renamed Oore Vantage GT4 entry but early contact for Patten just after the start saw them pick up heavy front end damage that not only ended their race within the first half hour but also ended their championship dreams.

 

The remaining four AMR runners all had good run outs around the infield circuit layout of the Motor Speedway, and all will be looking to round off the 2026 campaign upon something of a high. The #4 Medusa Motorsport AMR pairing of Hunter Yeany and Athan Sterling came back strong after their recent adversities only for another drive through penalty perhaps rob them of what could have been their best finish to date as the team already looks ahead to next season and the possibilities of running two such Aston Martins.

David Hampton and Thomas Merrill also had a solid P10 finish in class last time out, mirroring their early season pace that sadly went away from them in the midst of the season with their present P12 position in class looking slightly unfair compared to their efforts.

 

Then we have the two CSM Motorsport Aston Martins as that team looks to build solid foundations before a tough 2027 campaign having swapped to the British brand only a few races ago from their more usual Porsche chassis.

 

Morgan Burkhard and Zach Veach again feature within the #2 car (having finished P11 at IMS) with teammates and lesser experienced GT4 racers Ismaeel Ellahi and Ayrton Houk behind the wheel of the #3 car ahead of the race wave off at 11:40hrs local on FRIDAY.

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It was just a week ago that we reported upon the last round of the IMSA Weathertech Sportscar Championship as that series GTP, LMP2, GTD Pro and GTD entries battled out another standard two hours and forty-minute race around the infield circuit of Indianapolis Motor Speedway.

At that event, all looked to be running surprisingly smoothly for the Aston Martin Valkyrie GTP and two Aston Martin Racing Vantage GTD Pro and GTD entries – well, right up until the final Safety Car intervention that eventually saw the #23 GTP and #68 Vantage GTD Pro entries drop back within their respective classes whilst the GTD championship chasing #27 Heart of Racing AMR Vantage of Eduardo Barrichello could do no more than fifth in class.

 

Next weekend’s final round at the Michelin Raceway Road Atlanta and the series traditional event of Petit Le Mans sees all three cars return plus one other GTD to round off the 2026 season with a simple ten hour into the night race.

Completing their second season within IMSA (but only their first full season having skipped the opening round at Daytona last year) sees both Ross Gunn and Roman De Angelis get joined again by Alex Riveras for this nearly once around the clock race as they and the Heart of Racing team look to push the performance success of their car to higher levels have ran quite legitimately within the top five last time out at IMS.

 

Championship wise – that was never quite the plan again in only year two of the only true road derived hypercar chassis running within the IMSA GTP class again with good old BoP sometimes never being their friend that would otherwise let their V12 normally aspirated engine sing.

Next down the order is the #68 GTD Pro entry from the YRB Racing Car Blanche AMR Vantage GTD of Valentin Hasse-Clot and Marco Sorensen as they did last time out at IMS but this time, they are joined by fellow AMR factory driver Matia Drudi for this season finale. Being only part-time entrants and then mainly for the last three rounds of the season, everything is gearing the team up for a full GTD pro assault on the class with Hasse-Clot and Sorensen already confirmed for the shorter sprint races.

 

Finally, but by no means least for the full season runners at least, the #27 Heart of Racing AMR Vantage GTD of Barrichello does still have GTD Drivers Championship possibilities going into this round but the Brazilian now has a substantial points deficit to first overcome and then exceed at the end of next weekend’s race if he is to become the latest class champion for the Heart of Racing team.

Joining him at circuit in the south-east of the country will again be his more usual stable mate in Tom Gamble whilst they will be joined Zacharie Robichon as he did at the Rolex 24 this year where the #27 car finished third in class.

 

Making something of a rare comeback to end their own part-time season within IMSA this year with some more fun both on and off track is the #44 Magnus Racing AMR Vantage GTD of John Potter, Spencer Pumpelly and Mario Farnbacher.

They too were at the Rolex 24 this season where they beat the #27 car by one to finish second overall in class at the end of that event with that and another race at Watkins Glen later in the season being their only run outs. Their inclusion brings the GTD entry up to eighteen cars out of total expected grid entry of some fifty-four cars for the race that is scheduled to start at 12:10hrs local on Saturday.

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Six hours of Fuji Speedway is the latest FIA World Endurance Championship offering this weekend as the Hypercar and LMP3 based series moves onto Japan for its sixth round of the season.

Last time out at the Circuit of The Americas was just three weeks ago where the #007 Heart of Racing Aston Martin Valkyrie secured its best qualifying position of its racing life so far in fourth whilst the team’s two Aston Martin Racing Vantage LMGT3’s locked out the front row in class for the first time ever.

 

Six hours later and through some very trying track conditions later, the #007 car of harry Tincknell and Tom Gamble converted that starting position into a P4 overall finishing result whilst the two Vantage crews did eventually swap positions upon track for the #27 car of Ian James, Zacharie Robichon and Matia Drudi to claim their first race win of the season but with their sister #23 car of Gray Newell, Eduardo Barrichello and Jonny Adam doing enough to secure the final step of the LMGT3 podium for an historic home 1-3 result for the American based team.

The results from the USA lift the #007 crew up to eleventh within the Hypercar Drivers Championship, very much still in contention with even the class leaders above with three rounds still outstanding whilst within LMGT3, that result kickstarts again the #27 crews championship assault after something of a slow start to now lie nineth whilst the #23 crew are now placed just five points above them in sixth – seventeen points behind the class leading driver.

 

Past season results from Fuji Speedway have been difficult from any Aston Martin Racing powered crew and you have to go back to 2022 for when the locally based #777 D’Station Racing AMR Vantage GTE crew of Satoshi Hoshino, Tomonobu Fujii and Charlie Fagg for their last podium finish within the then Am class.

Last year’s race was (like all the rest) the first for the new Aston Martin Valkyrie car and it was the #009 car of Alex Riberas and Marco Sorensen who faired best within that race with their P5 finish overall after the sister #007 was spun out after contact.

 

As usual, all bar tyre pressures and camber information remains confidential to the teams going into the Fuji round so we won’t know of any changes in car performance within either platform until teams get on track for the first Free Practice session later just before lunchtime on Friday and maybe then not until the actual race which gets waved off at 11:00hrs local on Sunday.

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This weekend’s final round to the 2026 British GT Championship from Brands Hatch will literally by this years “race of champions’ as most of the GT3 and GT4 Drivers, Class and Team’s titles remain unresolved.

The only caveat to that statement will be that the #27 Grange Racing with FSR Aston Martin Racing Vantage GT4 pairing of Dan Lavery and Darren Turner have already secured their GT4 Pro-Am Drivers Championship following their race results last time out at Donington Park just a few weeks ago, but the rest remain fair game.

 

Going into this weekend’s final two-hour race around the full Brands Hatch circuit will feature another equal pairing of eleven GT3 powered crews with another eleven GT4 powered crews with three of the five Aston Martin Racing powered crews still very much in contention for one (or more) of these available championship wins.

Starting in the numerical order of each AMR powered team sees the #007 Beechdean AMR Vantage GT3 powered crew of Andrew Howard and Ross Gunn still in the hunt for both the Overall Championship win as well as their specific GT3 Drivers Championship. Going into this round, the #007 stands 27.5 points behind the present overall class leaders whilst being 20.5 points behind the present GT3 Pro-Am leaders and with 37.5 points still on offer – anything is possible even if they may need a little luck coming their way to do so.

 

This will also be Howards final race at this level after his announcement to step back a bit at the end of the season so he will want to give himself and his team their best chances of grabbing yet another British GT accolade at the end.

Moving into GT4 and it will be the #21 MK Racing AMR Vantage GT4 crew of Will Orton and Jessica Hawkins next as they have a much lower points deficit to overcome as far as both their available GT4 Drivers and GT4 Silver class championships go being just 6 points behind overall and just 1.5 points behind in silver.

 

What will really help these guys this time around will be their lack of pit stop compensation time at the halfway stage this is in addition to that of their silver/silver status whilst those ahead of them within either championship do have something extra to carry over from their Donington Park results.

Next up is the #27 Grange Racing crew who have already secured one significant class prize at their first time of asking but they do also remain in contention for the overall GT4 Drivers Championship as well, being just 10 points behind the leaders with also no pit stop compensation time to factor in thanks to their Pro-Am status.

 

That leaves just the #40 Townsend Racing and #97 GBR Stratton Motorsport AMR Vantage GT4 crews of James Townsend with Joe Wheeler and John Hartshorne alongside Jordan Collard again after his class podium winning debut performance last time out at Donington Park.

Neither crew are sadly at the sharper end of their Pro-Am or Overall leaderboards as both have suffered from more than their fair share of on track misfortune or post-race penalty. So far, Hartshorne has had a habit so far this season of finding himself within a class podium finishing position in many of the seven races so far to presently lie fourth overall within Pro-Am but with the potential of moving up higher should those ahead and actively chasing the ultimate prize mess up along the way.

 

It is similar for the #40 crew who lie sixth overall in class going into this round after they lost out on their podium finish last time out thanks to a post-race technical infringement penalty.

There will be plenty of Pro and Am based drivers fired up for this weekend’s finale and the final round has always had a tenancy in upsetting the apple cart somewhere along the way – we’re sure that the same will happen somewhere between testing this Friday and the end of the season at 15:30hrs on Sunday when everything will be realised.

The Iberian Supercars Series makes its long-awaited return to the race track this weekend after its extended summer break last saw them compete in early June.

Opening rounds from both Portimao and Jarama (plus a little non-championship visit to Vila Real in between), this weekend sees a twenty-eight-car strong GT4 grid make their way to Valencia’s Circuit Ricardo Tormo circuit for two more fifty minute – pit stop punctuated races.

 

That’s an increase in both overall numbers as well as those Aston Martin Racing powered entries as four such crews make the journey this time around. The #007 NGT AMR of Miguel Ferreira and Fernando Soares is one such new entry as they take out their 17A variant within the Am class.

The #777 RV7 Am classed entry of Ruben Vaquinhas and Mico Mineiro return looking to continue their good performance in class after their near maximum points first time out as will the #28 Racar Motorsport bronze classed entry of Vasco Oliveira and Manuel Giao who did something similar.

 

The #77 Racar Motorsport AMR of reigning champion Mathieu Martins alongside his new co-driver Anton Morsing, however, will need to pick up the pace a bit after securing just thirteen points in their first outing to already stand some thirty points in arrears.

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This weekend’s entry list says that we are back to two Aston Martin Racing Vantage GT3 crews within this penultimate round of the season visit to the Temple of Speed for the International GT Open Series.

This around being an endurance round, there will be (as the title suggests) just one two-hour, fifty-five minute plus one lap round around the circuit of Monza for the thirty-four crews being listed.

 

We (appear to) welcome back the Polish Good Speed Racing team after the skipped a couple of events last time around to apparently concentrate upon their Polish national GT Series – which we understand that they won last weekend.

The #14 Am class racing entry does see a driver change as Piotr Wira is this time joined by Denis Waszek.

 

The #97 Blackthorn AMR entry also features another driver change as a regular member of the team (Jonny Adam) will be busy again with his FIA World Endurance Championship driver duties with the Heart of Racing team over at Fuji, Japan this weekend. His place will be taken (again) by fellow AMR factory driver Henrique Chaves alongside Pro-Am title contender Charles Bateman.

Last time out for Bateman (and Adam) at Hockenheim, a P4 class finish in race one was supported with an overall pole position and a P5 class finish in race two of that weekend to leave Bateman still just points in arrears to the Pro-Am Championship leader with this weekend’s 500 and the two final sprint races from Barcelona still to come.

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SRO America and its three GT series move onto Barber Motorsport Park near Birmingham, Alabama for their respective penultimate rounds of the GT World Challenge America, GT4 America and GT America Series.

2026 has seen a fluid season in the number of general entries across their GT3 and GT4 based series with sometimes only the #71 Rebel Rock Racing team flying the Aston Martin Racing flag across all three although this time around, we welcome back some returning faces as well as some more new faces into the fray.

 

As said already, the #71 Rebel Rock Racing AMR Vantage GT3 of Frank DePew and Robin Liddell will again be back in business within the GT3 only series as they continue with their GT4 to GT3 transition for DePew that has been challenging at times albeit with some brief periods of success amongst the four races that they have competed in so far.

Last time out at Road America was something of a painful one for DePew after his green liveried Aston disappeared into a cloud of dust kicked up by another spinning car at the Kink only for that to collect both the #71 and two other cars that would end race day early for all concerned. Fortunately, nobody was otherwise injured within the event although there were several cars that needed plenty of TLC from their teams afterwards.

 

Hopefully, all will be more fortunate this time around.

GT America also sees another Aston Martin powered entry with the inclusion of the #9 89X Motorsport AMR of Christian Pipas within the mixed GT3/Cup/GT4 powered series. This is the first time since we have seen the team in an SRO America series this season and only the third time this year after two outings within the IMSA Michelin Pilot Challenge.

Pipas is a regular with the 89X Motorsport team but usually races one of the Lamborghini’s within that one make series so this is probably just some track experience exercise for him. He will compete within a grid size of seventeen entries for their two fort-minute races.

 

Finally, within the GT4 America Series we welcome two AMR powered entries as Pipas is then joined by team boss Mike Fitzpatrick within the #9 Am Class entry and also the #44 VPX Motorsport AMR entry of Jaden Harry and Joseph Maley in their Pro-Am entry.

VPX Motorsport is a team more associated with the running of Porsche’s, but these two drivers are new graduates to the GT4 class of racing this time around. Sadly, there is no Racers Edge AMR entry this time around within either GT4 based series.

This weekend’s timetable will them compete within two one-hour long races with a compulsory pits stop and driver change halfway through.

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The Racing Spirit of Leman entries within the GT4 European Series visit to Zandvoort round off our racing reports for last weekend as the two Aston Martin Racing Vantage GT4 powered runners faced something of a struggle at the Dutch coastal circuit.

Competing there as the fifth and penultimate round to their 2026 season, last weekend’s two one-hour long races eventually proved to be something to forget for their silver and Pro-Am classed pairings.

 

For the young Brazilian Pedro Gracia, this whole new racing adventure within Europe come at a cost – that this is in no other racing experience at certainly most of the tracks visited this year and Zandvoort was no different whilst his co-driver within their #74 car, Clement Seyler has at been around these circuits at least a few times. Their sister #72 Pro-Am pairing of Florent Grizaud and David Kullmann would have also known what to expect.

 

Competing last weekend within a grid of thirty-four other cars, Qualifying for Seyler for race one didn’t go too badly despite their reported balance issues within the car as the Luxembourger claimed a P11 starting slot whilst Kullmann was much further back in P29.

For the #72 car of Kullmann, their first race didn’t last much longer than turn one as contact between two other cars spun him around and left him stranded within the gravel. Unfortunately unable to get going again despite the comforts of a Safety Car meant that that was another DNF for these guys.

 

For Seyler, and the others on track for that matter, the strong wind continued to bring sand off the beaches and drop it around the track making for some treacherous conditions at times that saw the #74 car to continue to hang around the P10 mark up until the opening of the pit stop window. Handing over to Garcia from P13, the treat of rain looked menacing, but it never did although the constantly changing, sand induced track conditions made up for that fact.

As the final laps passed by and having suffered (an unseen) delay of some description, the #74 would finally finish P19 overall / P15 in class.

 

Race two on Sunday morning was a totally different affair as the wind had dropped and the sun was making intermittent appearances as the grid readied themselves for their final run out with Garcia this time starting from P9 and Grizaud P27.

Despite another incident at turn one like yesterday, the race continued green as #72 moved up one place and the #72 car within the top twenty-five after the opening lap. As the race settled, the top ten split into two distinct groups with the second group before an inter BMW clash along the pit straight had threatened another Safety Car intervention.

 

By the time of the pit window, the #72 was down to P12 with the #74 also having dropped down the order as well but despite newer, more experienced racers now being aboard – there was no forward movement up the leader board for either Aston Martin before they both eventually finished P16 overall / P11 in class for the #72 and P24 overall/ P9 in class for the #74.

The final round of the season will be from Portimao in just over three weeks’ time.

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Two thoroughly chaotic races around the Dutch coastal circuit of Zandvoort saw something of a bitter-sweet Aston Martin Racing powered performance from the five Vantage GT3 crews that made up the forty-five strong entry for this penultimate round of the GT World Challenge Europe Sprint Cup Series.

With the Belgian Comtoyou Racing team fielding three such cars alongside a further two from the German based Walkenhorst Motorsport, all were there as just a matter of pride after previous performances has seen all Pro, silver and bronze classed AMR entries now out of class contention.

 

Difficult conditions at the circuit on Saturday saw strong winds lifting sand from the adjacent beach dunes and depositing that upon an already challenging circuit making for some difficult qualifying and racing conditions.

Strangely, the highest placed Aston Martin within Q1 ahead of the first hour long race was the #21 silver classed Comtoyou Racing AMR of Arthur Dorison and Oliver Soderstrom way down in P21 overall with their sister #007 Pro class entry of Nicki Thiim and Kobe Pauwels the slowest of the five way down in P37.

 

With the race getting underway under skies that looked as threatening as they could get without actually raining, it was a surprising clean opening lap aside from one car getting a puncture through contact. For all the Astons, it was to be a progressive steps through the ranks as the Dane passed twelve cars on the opening lap to move into the top twenty-five first time around. An unsurprising early Safety Car for a stranded car on track cooled matters down whilst that was recovered as Thiim remained the lead AMR with the #11 Comtoyou bronze class entry of Felice Jelmini and Marcelo Tomasoni surprisingly the next best placed sister car in P28 just ahead of the pit stop window.

Stops done and whilst Pauwels had now elevated his #007 car into just outside of the top ten overall, the sister #21 car was now in a position to threaten the silver class ranks for a podium finish with just twenty minutes remaining as both silver classed Walkenhorst cars continued to suffer with performance/traction on track at the wrong end of the pack.

 

At the chequered flag, the #007 recovered something of their mojo from the earlier qualifying to finish P9 overall/P6 in class but the #21 car did manage to snatch the final step of the silver class podium P19 overall /P3 in class. The final Comtoyou entry – the #11 failed to finish whilst the #34 Walkenhorst car of Jamie Day/Mateo Villagomez eventually finished P29 overall / P6 in class with its sister #35 car of Maxime Robin and Gaspard Simon two cars further back P31 overall / P7 in class.

Sundays race was a totally different affair as (predominantly) the strong wind had now gone with the race now being run upon a much cleaner and (in parts) drier track. Earlier qualifying had seen the #007 secure a P12 starting slot with the #21 car the next best placed AMR in P19 with the other five P29 or further back.

 

That performance for the #007 car was however lost on the opening lap as Pauwels was rear ended and spun around by another spinning car and that would see the end to their efforts for the weekend just a few laps later alongside the that of the #11 car a few laps earlier.

With two cars down after only the first few minutes, the pressure would have been on the others to perform and it was again the #21 Comtoyou car who rose to the occasion by this time securing a silver class win but this time, the did bring the #34 Walkenhorst crew with them to the podium as they secured a P3 finish at the end despite all of the going contact throughout the race. The #35 Walkenhorst completed the finishers P31 overall / P9 in class.

 

The Sprint Cup Series now looks ahead to its final round of the season from Portimao in a months’ time.

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