Having dipped in numbers over the two COVID-19 influenced seasons, the Aston Martin Racing Drivers Academy returns in force for the 2022 season with aptly twenty-two drivers today named as students and contenders for the ultimate prize.

Following in the footsteps of previous winners in the likes of Ross Gunn, Tom Canning, Valentin Hasse-Clot and last year’s winner Roman De Angelis, this year’s contenders mainly feature within the GT4 category with just one driver presently competing within the AMR Vantage GT3 for one of AMR’s many Customer and Partner teams.

As reported previously, the 2022 season is by far the busiest season yet with the 2019 AMR Vantage GT4 platform within the global racing scene despite GT3 take up has unfortunately been at the opposing end of the scale.

 

2022 ASTON MARTIN RACING DRIVER ACADEMY CANDIDATES

Driver	Team	Series	Car
Josh Miller (GBR)	R-Racing	British GT	GT4
Nick Hancke (DEU)	Speed Monkeys	DTM Trophy	GT4
Jacob Riegel (DEU)	Speed Monkeys	DTM Trophy	GT4
Konstantin Lachenauer (CHE)	Racing Spirit of Leman	GT4 European Series	GT4
Gus Bowers (GBR)	Racing Spirit of Leman	GT4 European Series	GT4
Thijmen Nabuurs (NED)	Racing One	GT4 European Series	GT4
Theo Nouet (FRA)	Beechdean AMR	GTWC Endurance Cup	GT3
Tom Wood (GBR)	Racing One	ADAC GT4	GT4
Ben Dorr (DEU)	Doer	ADAC GT4	GT4
Romain Leroux (FRA)	Doer	ADAC GT4	GT4
Emil Heyerdahl (NOR)	Prosport	NLS	GT4
Loris Cabirou (FRA)	AGS Events	FFSA GT4	GT4
Ewen Hachez (GBR)	AGS	FFSA GT4	GT4
Hugo Bac (FRA)	AGS	FFSA GT4	GT4
Andy Noah (FRA)	AGS	GT4 European Series	GT4
Hugo Conde (FRA)	AGS	GT4 European Series	GT4
Julien Darras (FRA)	Street Art	GT Open GT4	GT4
Clemence Rouceau (FRA)	Street Art	GT Open GT4	GT4
Akhil Rabindra (IND)	Racing Spirt of Lèman	GT4 European Series	GT4
Jamie Day (GBR)	R-Racing	British GT	GT4
Kenton Koch (USA)	Racing One	GT4 European Series	GT4
Phil Dorr (DEU)	Doer	ADAC GT4	GT4

Good to see that on the eve of the start of the 2020 racing season over at Daytona International Speedway that Aston Martin Racing have today confirmed the continuation of their AMR Driver Academy into its third year of operation and open invitations for all eligible drivers to now apply to secure their position.

First introduced back in 2015, Ross Gunn was the successful young driver of that years intake of ten drivers from mainly the UK GT racing arena before branching out last year to accept a whopping twenty three individuals from AMR Partner and Customer teams from around the world.


2019 British GT GT4 Champion Tom Canning was the winner of last years campaign having been deemed to have 'ticked' more of the required 'boxes' in terms of performance improvement by the judges than his peers. As part reward for that achievement Canning received his testing opportunity in a factory Vantage GTE race car at the World Endurance Championship Rookie Test in Bahrain after the Championships eight hour endurance round in the Kingdom last month as well as a sizeable financial contribution to his 2020 racing endeavours, a TAG Heuer AMR watch and the elevated status of AMR Junior Driver - the winner of the 2020 Academy will win similar prize haul.

As usual, applicants aged between 17-25 and racing full season in a recognised Championship or Series with one of the many customer teams are eligible to apply for the 2020 Academy although this years intake will now be limited to just ten places at the discretion of the interview panel that again includes Darren Turner, Paul Howarth and Rachel Adam.


Just as before, this year’s contestants will be judged on a wide range of criteria including pace, consistency, technical feedback and fitness. The judging panel will also evaluate drivers’ ability to manage the strategic, teamwork, commercial and public relations aspects of their role.

At present, and despite any apparent lack in official announcements from the AMR teams across Europe and the rest of the world, competition for these places and the benefits that they will offer the successful individuals will already be intense so best not to waste any time.

Interested parties should submit their racing CV to academy@astonmartinracing.com by Friday 28 February 2020.

The final round of the 2019 VLN Series takes place this weekend from the infamous Nordschleife circuit with this time a pair of new Aston Martin Racing V8 Vantage GT4's seeing out the season.

Having narrowly missed out on the Blancpain GT Endurance Cup Am Class title together in their Garage 59 AMR Vantage GT3 sees both Alex West and Chris Goodwin race together (? for the first time at this venue we want to say?) in one of the green liveried AMR Performance Centres GT4's (again querying fo the first time for West) for the final four hours of racing around the near twenty-six kilometre circuit in the #156 car that both Martin and Alex Brundle shared to a class podium in VLN7.



Whilst Goodwin has raced at the circuit many times, most notably of late in the new Vantage GT4 at the ADAC Total N24 event earlier this year when he shared the then #36 car with Darren Turner and Christian Gebhardt, West only qualified for his full VLN Permit earlier this year when he shared the normally aspirated AMR Performance Centre Vantage GT4 with Martin Brundle.

Joining them is a customer entry for the #173 Prosport Performance team are drivers Alex Mies, Mike David Ortmann and Christoph Brauer. A bit of a strange entry this, considering the apparent hostility showed by the Prosport team owner towards AMR in an interview for a German website after his teams own difficult transition over to the the new iteration of Vantage race car in both ADAC GT Masters, ADAC GT4 Germany as well as other series - a fall out that has left all four cars up for sale. The first two drivers named did race together aboard one of their GT4 cars at the penultimate round of the ADAC series at the Nurburgring with great effect so it will be interesting to see if they stay loyal to the team or the brand in the new season.


As usual with all VLN events, private practice is available on the Friday before Qualifying on Saturday morning ahead of a noon start (local) for the four hour race.

Photo credits - Frozenspeed / Garage 59 / Prosport

Last weekend saw the return of joint ADAC GT Masters and the ADAC GT4 Germany series programme from the Red Bull Ring in Austria having temporally parted company after the opening round to the season at Oschersleben.

Having had issues with performances at the opening two rounds of the ADAC GT Masters at both Oschersleben and more recently at Most in the Czech Republic, the team had decided to concentrate their efforts in GT3 with just a single Aston Martin Racing Vantage GT3 being entered for drivers Daniel Keilwitz and Maxime Martin. In line with a programme of development for the event with AMR and other strategic partners, that sadly left both Hugo de Sadeleer and Valentin Hasse-Clot with a weekend off.

With only one points finish out of the four races so far, racing success in Austria was important for the team in order to bolster their so far faltering AMR race programme.


Early testing at the circuit proved changes made were certainly in the right direction with the #99 car being just half a second behind the pace setters in both Free Practice sessions on Friday and Qualifying followed a similar theme when Keilwitz finished his opening stint in P15 for the one hour race later on that day.

A good opening stint from the former ADAC GT Masters Champion kept the car in one piece and looked on par in terms of pace with those around them as he pitted from P10 at he halfway point. With the AMR factory driver Martin now in the car, he would have a great battle with the sole Ferrari 488 in the Series for lap after lap with each platform showing their strengths and weaknesses as corners of the lap passed them by.

Then came the damaging notification from Race Control - a drive through penalty for exceeding track limits! Having shown pace, Martin sadly pitted the car to retire from the race and a points paying P10 position with just 10 minutes to go.


Race 2 on Sunday was a different day and with Martin the time qualifying the car, the duo would this time start from P10 on the grid - again just 0.484 seconds off pole position. Fortunately less aggressive on track this time, the sixty minutes of racing cycled through without accident or incident to finish a very credible P9 with some very welcome points as a reward.

Whilst the penalty in race 1 was unfortunate, the events of Round 3 of the season has proven that the team are working their Vantage GT3's the right way in terms of performance as the series takes a short break in their proceedings before the next round at Zandvoort in early August.


In support of all of this was the ADAC GT4 Germany Series for only their second round of the season after Oschersleben with PROsport Performance returning with their two AMR Vantage GT4's.

Free Parctice and Qualifying 1 saw some good times from drivers Florian Thoma and Jorg Viebahn for them to qualify their #18 and #19 cars P5 and P14 respectively for Saturdays race which then started very badly for the team.


Leading up to T1 on the opening lap, a McLaren 570S moved across the track and forced another car into the side of Thoma's #18 car which in turn forced him into the side of another car of his outside. Whilst he was initially able to continue, unseen damage within the fabric of the car would ultimately force him to pit and retire after only two laps. For the sister #19 car of Viebahn, things were looking comfortable during his opening stint as he moved up to P10 by the time of the stop.

Swapping over to Joonas Lapalleinen, he continued the fine work of his co driver in the opening stint until what looked like suspension failure forced his retirement at the trackside with just three minutes remaining!!

Sunday would then see both GT4 cars from the team not set a Qualifying lap time which automatically forced then to start Sundays race from the rear of the grid. Whereas Jeremy Lesoudier finally got a drive the event, the #19 car would again suffer from technical issues that forced Lapalleinen to pit - and retire again.


For the #18 car, Lesoudier and Thoma would continue with an underwhelming race from their point of view to ultimately finish P9.

Clearly some investigative work and repairs to be done on those two cars ahead of their next round also at Zandvoort in August.


Photo credits - ADAC GT Masters / PROsport Performance

Whilst Optimum Motorsport made some pretty significant steps forwards with their new Pro class podium finish at the second round of their International GT Open Series endeavours at the weekend, for two other Aston Martin Racing Partner teams, this weekends results continued their distinctly split path of results that they have enjoyed so far this season.

Starting in Europe - Friday and Saturday saw the third round of Creventic's 24H Series and the 12Hours of Brno take place from the small but technically challenging circuit in the Czech Republic. Back supporting the series again but first time visitors to Brno with their new 2019 AMR Vantage GT4 was the German based PROsport Performance team (again racing under their PROpeak Performance banner) and their trio of drivers - Rodrique Gillion, Nico Verdonck and Akhil Rabindra.


Having already enjoyed a brace of podium finishes in the Series including a GT4 class win last time out at Spa, the team were certainly hoping of maintaining that momentum gained within their this and their other GT4 programmes this season to help offset the frustration that must be building from their (to date) unsuccessful ventures into the ADAC GT Masters Series with their other AMR Vantage GT3's.

This time competing within a slightly larger GT4 field of six cars, the #1 car Qualified P3 for the start of the race which would begin soon afterwards on Friday afternoon before concluding later of Saturday. By the end of the opening three hour part of the race the #1 car was laying in P4 in class but already a couple of laps down to the lead car.

The next nine hours of racing would see the car compete with both of the M4 BMW's for the second two steps of the podium what with the #224 KTM X-bow being dominant from the start of the meeting with their more Brno experienced driver base. At the end of the nine hour stint of Saturday the #1 car would again be podium bound with a P3 finish at their first visit to the track.


Congratulations to them.


Then over in Japan there was the third round of their national Super GT weekend where another of this years Aston Martin Racing convertees, D'Station Racing AMR were competing in the GT300 class with a new AMR V8 Vantage GT3.

Also competing with a similar GT3 chassis in the Pirelli Super Taikyu Series, the team have already enjoyed several podium finishes (including race wins) in that series but had been distinctly unlucky so far in the coveted GT300 series after significant damage was sustained in the wet that was the opening round at Okayama before technical issues blighted round two at Fuji.


Looking to make amends for the poor start to the season, drivers JP Oliveira and Tomonobu Fujii had been working hard in between events to move their svelte liveried #7 car forward. Also enjoying a dry race weekend for the first time this season the #7 car finished P18 during Free Practice (just 1.235 seconds off the lead pace) before having their Qualifying affected by a red flag to finish P19 for the start of Sundays race.

Unfortunately for the team, everything again 'went south' just after the pit stops when Oliveira had to retire the car due to an electrical issue that was effecting its performance. Obviously bitterly disappointed, the team have vowed to continue fighting on looking for that change in circumstance that will allow them to race their competitors on equal levels.


Next round of the Super GT - GT300 will be in Thailand at the end of June.

Photo credits - 24H Series / PROpeak Performance / D'Station Racing AMR

If the 'difficulties' of the opening two races on Saturday within the ADAC GT Masters and ADAC GT4 Germany weren't bad enough for PROsport Performance (racing as PROpeak Performance) to contend with, then the results of Sunday's second round of races really told everyone that Sunday wasn't to be their day either!

In Saturday's earlier ADAC GT4 race, their pole setting #18 car of Florian Thoma suffered a puncture at the most critical time, mid flow around a fast chicane that spun his car out and heavily into the tyre barrier causing some significant damage to the front of his Aston Martin Racing Vantage GT4. Then, just after the resulting Safety Car period needed to clear up the debris of that incident the teams sister #19 car of Joerg Viebahn spun his car out into retirement after becoming beached in a gravel trap.


For the Vantage GT3 side of the garage things faired no better in their GT Masters opener as a technical issue stopped the #98 car of Valentin Hasse-Clot on the start/finish line just a lap before the end whilst the #99 car of Maxime Martin (despite finishing P10) was later excluded from the result on a technical issue at post race tech.

Sunday it should have been better for the team and despite the track being very wet during the two morning Qualifying sessions at least three of their cars would be on track. The #18 car would be sadly missing from the second GT4 race due to the front end damage being too severe to repair at the circuit despite six additional engineers being on hand from Prodrive in support of the team as part of their Partner status.


GT4's were again out first and this time it was the turn of the young Joonas Lappalainen to get his first racing laps within the car (having missed out on Saturday due to its early retirement) and he did well to qualify the car in P5.

This time, keeping his car out of trouble on the frantic opening laps he still was able to race those around him he was eventually able to pass the car back to his co-driver Viebahn at the half way mark who (having calmed his own driving mannerisms down a little from Saturday) brought the car home in P8 for some valuable points. Great job!


With the two GT3 cars, it was much the same as Saturday with each car never really being to bother those around them in terms of ultimate speed - whether that was due to a collective issue or BoP or something we just don't know yet and despite this, the #99 again qualified ahead of the #98 car in P16 and P24 respectively.

With the track now having dried from the days earlier ran during Qualifying at least the race would start and finish in dry conditions avoiding the drama of the final six minutes of Saturdays race. Unfortunately that didn't give either Vantage GT3 an advantage throughout the 60 minute plus one lap race as both cars would eventually cross the line in the same order but down in P14 and P19 places. That was better than Saturday but ...........................


After the race sadly came similar news of Saturday with that both Vantage GT3 cars would again be excluded from the results for what the team described as 'previously unexplained technical irregularities that were not compatible with the regulations'. Clearly there are a few technical issues to be sorted by the team with the race organisers and Aston Martin Racing in order to prevent any repetition of this as well as working out just how performance issues can be sorted within both platforms of the car.

For the two Vantage GT4 cars - they will be back out again racing at the second round of the GT4 European Series at Brands Hatch this coming weekend whilst the GT3 will out at the next round of the ADAC GT Masters at Most in the Czech Republic in about three weeks time.

Photo credits - ADAC GT Masters / PROpeak Performance

Swapping over to the new Aston Martin Racing V8 Vantage GT3 platform and hiring some very impressive driving ability was certainly a message of intent from German based Prosport Performance as they took the British marque into the top flight of German GT racing for 2019 but it was to be no fairytale for the team at the end of todays opening race.

As the cars were lined up along the pit wall ready for the formation lap and the start of todays opening one hour race it was already a little bit more than just a red flag interrupting the earlier Qualifying session that would hinder both #98 and #99 cars as the race progressed.


With Daniel Keilwitz and Hugo de Sadeleer starting the #99 and #98 cars from P15 and P20 on the grid respectively, neither were able to positively adjust their track positions in the opening stint of the race as, despite an obvious power differential, the fast, sweeping but narrow circuit left things very difficult to overtake with machinery so technologically similar.

At the halfway mark both cars pitted for their minimum time pit stops but by when both cars had swapped to both Maxime Martin (#99) and Valentin Hasse-Clot (#98) and the remainder of the field had also completed theirs the #99 car had risen to P12 and the #98 P20!!!


This little degree of progression doesn't mean that there was little in the way of good racing - which there was - particularly with Hasse- Clot battling with Lucas Luhr for position just as the expected rain finally began to fall onto the circuit with only six minutes remaining.

For Hasse-Clot, that was bad news as he would spin around on track loosing further positions before ultimately stopping on the finish line with some technical issue just as the leaders were taking the chequered flag. For Martin in the #99 car, he would take the flag and in P10 which was testament to his race craft in the wet conditions whilst on slicks.


Then, later comes news that the #99 car has been excluded from the results due to a technical infringement concerning the cars fire extinguisher at post race scrutineering.

So- including their GT4 side of operations and two races they were rewarded with three DNF's and an exclusion  for all their effort - it can't get any worse so tomorrow is simply another day and the character of a team is always determined in just how they respond to adversity such as this.

Onwards and upwards then guys!!

Photo credit - ADAC GT Masters 

For the German based team PROsport Performance, today must figure as one of their most difficult in all the years that they have been racing with a four car entries in to two series giving absolutely nothing back despite early promises.

Earlier today the teams two Aston Martin Racing V8 Vantage GT4's qualified for the first race of the opening round of the ADAC GT4 Germany Series at Oschersleben with the team's Florian Thoma claiming pole in teams #18 car. Its sister #19 car by Joerg Viebahn would start Saturdays one hour race from P5 so all looked promising but then came the start of the race!


At the start both cars soon found themselves being overtaken into the first corner - each dropping at least two places to their starting position. In his haste to recover their situation in what was his first race with the team, the #19 car of Viebahn was seen to connect with the rear of at least two other cars going into corners on the same (second) lap and that earned him a black and white driving standards flag from Race Control.

Just moments later the #18 car of Thoma is seen entering the chiccane on the far side of the circuit to the pits - hitting the right hander kerb hard before trying to turn left only for the car only to snap away from him and pirouette heavily into the tyre wall opposite. With significant front end damage to the car that was their race already done and that was only seven minutes into a one hour race. The partially removed rear off side tyre seemed to give clues as to the cause.


With the car stranded on the outside of what is a fast corner, a Safety Car was quickly called to control the field as medical crews were dispatched to chack upon a clearly shaken and bruised Thoma and for the remnants of his #18 car to be recovered.

That Safety Car period lasted for just over ten minutes during which the #19 was holding P7 despite his early brush with the race officials. Then the worst imaginable happened to the team.

On the first lap of the restart and with still over 41 minutes remaining, the #19 was seen to place its outer wheels off the track surface before attempting to make the next left hand corner - the result was seeing the car loose adhesion at the rear and spin off into the gravel trap where another Safety Car period would be required to recover the car.


Both cars out in under twenty minutes of racing is something no team wants to see. The team have already had a busy schedule of testing and racing up to today - GT4 European Series at Monza and two 24h Series races at Mugello and Spa. Fixing the #18 car will keep them busy overnight but at least tomorrow is another day and it can't exactly get any worse.

The only way is up tomorrow for Prosport Performance in ADAC GT4 Germany!

Photo credits - ADAC GT4

After having the second round of the VLN Series snowed off earlier this month, round three takes place this weekend and features names already announced by Aston Martin Racing as featuring in this years factory plans for the forthcoming ADAC Zurich 24H race later in June.

As part of the two car factory supported GT4 entry effort into the big race sees that likes of newly recruited AMR Junior driver Jamie Chadwick pairing up once again with the Nordschleife guru that is Peter Cate in an AMR Performance Centre prepared Vantage GT4 in the SP8T class. They will be joined this weekend by both Chris Goodwin and Christian Gebhardt in the #156 car.


Also competing at the VLN3 event on Saturday will see the return of both Martin Brundle and Alex West aboard the #150 AMR Performance Centre GT4 in the SP8 class as both of these drivers make their way to a full GT3 Nordschleife Permit in time for June. Both drivers missed out on the weather effected VLN2 by virtue of their prior commitments in both F1 and Blancpain GT respectively.

Rounding off the trio of cars sees the return of both Marco Muller and Tony Richards again in the Vantage GT8 that they (with others) shall also race at the N24.


The ADAC GT Masters Series finally gets under this weekend from the 3.6km circuit at Oschersleben in central Germany.

Two AMR Vantage GT3's from the PROsport Performance team will be entered into the series and will compete under the PROpeak Performance banner. Their four driver line up will consist of AMR Factory driver Maxime Martin with Daniel Keilwitz as well as drivers new to the series in Hugo de Sadeleer and Valentin Hasse-Clot for their two opening races on Saturday and Sunday.


That series in in turn supported by the ADAC GT4 Germany series within which again we will see see the PROpeak Performance team enter two AMR Vantage GT4's as a third stage to a hectic schedule of GT4 racing of theirs in this and the GT4 European Series and 24H Series as well.


Drivers Florian Thoma pairs with Jeremy Lesoudier and Joonas Lappalainen pairs with Joerg Viebahn.


The International GT Open Championship opens its 2019 account this weekend with the first of a series of seven double header weekends starting at the Paul Ricard circuit in southern France.

Returning to the Championship will again be the Optimum Motorsport pairing of Ollie Wilkinson and Bradley Ellis this time in their new Aston Martin Racing Vantage GT3 that they raced so will in at the opening rounds of the British GT Championship from Oulton Park last weekend finishing with a P3 overall podium in race 1.


The duo have already tested at the circuit at the official winter test there back in February but that was early doors for them having only just received the car from the Prodrive factory. Despite that, they still finished seventh quickest at the end of the first day of testing.


After an emphatic win at the opening five hour endurance round from Suzuka, Japanese based D'Station AMR Racing return to the Pirelli Super Taikyu Series for its second round from the Sugo Circuit in the north of the country.


Local drivers Satoshi Hoshino and Tsubasa Kondo are once again due to be joined by AMR factory driver Darren Turner for the shorter three hour race aboard the teams #777 AMR Vantage GT3 (ST-X) class car on Sunday.

Thats another hectic schedule of #TeamAMR racing from around the world - good luck to you all!

Photo credits - AMR / D'Station AMR / Optimum / Prosport

Having spent consecutive weekends away at a racetrack somewhere in Europe either testing or racing in the ADAC GT4 Germany or GT4 European Series, its back to another race track again this weekend for German based PROsport Performance for the second round of the 24H Series European GT Championship from Spa Francorchamps.

Despite suffering from technical issues in the first part of the 12 hours of Mugello opener at the end of March, the trio of drivers (Nico Verdonck / Rodrique Gillion and the late entry of Akhil Rabindra) went on to secure the new Aston Martin Racing V8 Vantage GT4's first podium of its 2019 racing career with a P2 finish.


The entry list for Spa shows just the original two drivers of Verdonck and Gillion for another 12 hours of racing around one of the toughest race tracks the world has to offer so we won't be surprised if another name falls into the equation before the start of the race on Friday afternoon. We also do not yet know which chassis they will be using - its just a choice of red or white!!

PROsport Performance spent last weekend racing at a very wet Monza so that will be hoping for no repetition of anything that Spa is renown for!

Photo credits - 24H Series / GT4 European Series

PROsport Performance, who are undertaking their Aston Martin Racing activities under the PROpeak Performance banner have just started the three day Official Test for the German ADAC GT Masters Series at the Oschesleben circuit.

Originally thought to involve all four cars entered into either the ADAC GT Masters or ADAC GT4 Germany Series, it appears that the team had yet to receive their second GT3 Vantage from the Prodrive factor in time for the test.


That means that drivers Maxime Martin, Daniel Keilwitz with Hugo de Sadeleer and Valentin Hasse-Clot will have to share the one available GT3 car over the expected seven hours of available testing unlike the teams four GT4 drivers who can now get to grips with their new cars. The first hint of one of their GT4's new livery was also published from their garage today as well as some video of both cars posted on-line by the Series and they both look great!


The Racing Endurance Legends Series attended opened their first racing account of the season at the Catalunya Classic Revival around the Circuit de Catalunya, Barcelona this weekend for two, thirty minute races.

In the midst of their eighteen car grid were two GT's from the Aston Martin racing stable - a 2007 DBR9 of Kriton Lendoudis and Ruis Aguas and the former Shaun Lynn (Former JMW) Vantage GT2 now in the hands of Franz Wunderlich and Peter Praller.


By virtue of being the only car in the GT1B class, the #009 GT1 car finished both races at the top of the board whilst the #92 GT2B car finished P5 and P4 in class.

The Series next outing will be at the Spa Classic in mid May.

Friday saw the latest covert to Aston Martin confirm their plans for 2019 as Spanish team Team Virage confirmed the purchase of two new AMR V8 Vantage GT4's for entry into the new SRO GT4 South European Series. With all the races within Spain, this appears to be a logical, progressive step for the open wheel/prototype team as they embark into GT racing for the first time with just one car so far confirmed for drivers CO Jones and Freddie Hunt.

Due to the lateness of their order, the team do not expect to receive their cars until until after the start of the season in Nogaro in mid April.

Photo credits - Fotorissima / Goodwood / Propeak Performance