The Italian GT Endurance Championship returns to the track this weekend for its second round of the season as Mugello plays host to an impressive thirty-seven car grid.

Amongst them will be the L&A Infinity (formerly Lazarus Corse) Aston Martin Racing team as their prepare their older 16A variant of the Vantage GT3 for their drivers William Alatalo, Jorge Lorenzo and Mahaveer Raghunathan.

 

For those thinking that perhaps that the race action the 24 Hours of Le Mans and its supporting series have to offer this weekend is not quite to their taste, then there is perhaps the third round of the Italian Gran Turismo Championship from Vallelunga.

 

Two older generations of the Aston Martin Vantage GT3 were also busy battling things out at both Imola in Italy and at The Bend down under in Australia in the Italian GT Series and GT world Challenge Australia Series respectively.

Closer to home, the once was Lazarus Corse AMR team (now apparently renamed the L&A Infinity Racing team) were out with their slightly newer, 17A variant of the car at the second round of their domestic Series at Imola with their driver pairing of Mattia Di Giusto and William Alatalo.

 

One more Aston Martin Racing powered will be competing this weekend within one of its now many examples of the new 2024 Vantage GT3 – and that will be the Japanese D’Station Racing team as they embark upon the third round of their domestic Super GT Series from Suzuka.

Having started out at Okayama with drivers Tomonobu Fujii and Marco Sorensen, the Dane was replaced by Charlie Fagg at the last round of the Series at Fuji Speedway back at the start of May, but this weekend sees all three drivers listed against their #777 car for this weekend’s three-hour round.

 

Like everyone will have understood just by looking at last weekend’s race schedule, that was another very busy race weekend for the many Aston Martin Racing powered Partner and Customer teams around the world as nine race series went about their business.

For us at The-Advantage, it was equally busy off track too so this report will unfortunately be just a quick round up of both the highs and the lows of last weekend’s events as this weekend’s events come steam-rollering towards us.

 

In this race packed weekend ahead, three more Aston Martin Racing powered crews will also participate within their elective race series, and that’s on top of the six series already listed.

Recently, we have been reading about British racer Charlie Fagg rejoining the Japanese based D’Station Racing AMR team as they sort out some of their driver clashes with their factory driver Marco Sorensen.

For this weekend and for all following WEC/Super GT date clashes moving forward, the Brit will join both Sorensen and Tomonobu Fujii within the teams Super GT entry at their home round of Fuji Speedway this weekend and will replace the Dane for the further diary clashes as they prioritise their World Endurance Championship hopes with the factory driver.

Just one round into their Super GT Series return, the #777 AMR Vantage GT3 crew presently rest fifth within the GT300 Teams Championship.

 

The naming of yet another driver by the Italian Lazarus Corse Aston Martin Racing team confused matters yesterday as the confirmed that Italian racer Mattia Di Giusto would now be partnering Finnish racer William Alatalo within their AMR Vantage GT3.

The team also confirmed for the first time that this driver line up will be competing within their national Italian GT Series.

 

Italian based Aston Martin Racing Partner team, Lazarus Corse have today confirmed the third stage of the infuriatingly incomplete process of confirming their 2024 racing ambitions with that of their second driver.

Competing within a new AMR Vantage GT3 (we know that already) with multiple MotoGP World Champion Jorge Lorenzo (we know that as well) comes today’s news that they will now be joined by Finnish single seater racer William Alatalo within the car but all within a series yet to be confirmed!!

 

Tentative steps of last year are hopefully growing into purposeful ones this time around for the Lazarus Corse Aston Martin Racing Partner team as they last week revealed that five times former Moto GP Champion Jorge Lorenzo will be joining their team this season.

Having taken delivery of a new AMR Vantage GT3 back in the summer of last season, the Italian based team has since only been known to have conducted a multitude of test days at various European circuit with a varying group set of drivers.

 

This week gave us the briefest of introductions to Aston Martin Racing’s latest Partner team about to hit the racetracks of Europe with their new Vantage GT3

Lazarus Corse AMR (nee Team Lazarus), an Italian based team well established within the GT3 ranks of Europe with their previous exploits in many a series with their former Lamborghini and Bentley machinery – now this time, they hope to continue with that fine form with their latest British stead.