The Comtoyou Racing team rounded off a very productive racing weekend for Aston Martin Racing and its Partner teams when the #39 Vantage GT3 entry finally found podium success within the ADAC GT Masters Series.

Racing at the Salzburgring in Austria last weekend as the penultimate round of the German Series, drivers Baudouin Detout and Jamie Day had to overcome early adversity during Saturdays opening eighty minute long race after a start line contact for Day suffered them a puncture and damage which initially put them down to the rear of the pack after Day’s P5 qualifying position.

After the necessary repairs, both Day and then Detout completed something of a miracle recovery drive to eventually finish tenth overall out of the grid size of just thirteen cars.

Sunday, however, was more fruitful for the team and their driver’s first ever visit to the Austrian circuit after Detout placed their car nineth on the grid for the second race although they did have to do it all the hard way again.

 

Starting normally, the #39 car had to visit the penalty box for an early transgression which saw them fall to the rear of the pack on only the second lap. Progress through the ranks they did for Day to eventually cross the finish line third overall.

Too little too late as far as the championship is concerned as the pairing move up to sixth with just two races at Hockenheim still to come.

Photo credits – Team / social media

After something like an eight-week summer break, just thirteen cars of the original grid size of sixteen cars of the ADAC GT Masters Series will head to the grid of the Salzburgring this weekend for the penultimate round of the season.

Fortunately to be within one of those runners will be the #39 full season entry of the Comtoyou Racing team and their silver/silver pairing of Jamie Day and Baudouin Detout. Last time out the Brit and Luxembourger secured their first GT3 race win togther and in the series with a near lights to flag performance from the pairing and team after Day had claimed pole position earlier in the weekend.

 

With this being Detout’s debut season within the Aston Martin Racing Vantage GT3 having stepped up from the Vantage GT4 at the end of last season, life within the AADAC series has been tough but with four races still to come this season they duo still sit a respectable P8 within the overall championship table.

As with any series, consistency is key and at least the pairing have secured a points scoring finish at the end of the previous eight races so far but with the points deficit to the present leaders already being too great to cover, the remainder of the season will remain that of a development curve for all.

Photo credits – Team / Series

 

 

Whilst the new iteration of the Aston Martin Racing Vantage GT3 is quickly making its mark in the world racing arena, the car that it replaced - the wonderfully sounding V12 Vantage GT3 was out again in two European series this weekend with one dominating its class.

The German based DMV GTC Series were again on their annual pilgrimage to the Red Bull Ring in Austria this weekend with a singe AMR V12 Vantage GT3 entry again from Timo Scheiber and his Schaler Motorsport.


Featuring two - thirty minute races as well as a 60 minute race over the two days, Scheibner and his #13 car dominated the Class 2 proceedings by taking a trio of Class wins by finishing P7, P5 and P7 respectively in each of the three races.


Meanwhile, over at the Salzburgring in Austria owner of both of these two V12 Vantages (Alexander Lienau) was also out again in his ex. Miedecke Motorsport car in the Histo Cup Series. Having last ran in the car in the Aston Martin Masters Endurance Legends at Monza earlier this month where he was able to get some assistance from the Beechdean AMR team parked next door in the paddock (they were racing in the Michelin Le Mans Cup race), this weekend proved to be another learning curve for the retired Austrian as at first fuel pressure issues and then a trip into the gravel on the last lap of race 1 summed up his Saturday.

Then for Sundays events things went a lot better with a P6 Qualifying position amongst the 15 car field to ultimately finish P5 but not too far off the final step of the podium.


A great weekend of racing and we bet that these cars must have sounded marvellous with their V12 screams reverberating off the local mountain sides.

Photo credits - DMV GTC / Histo Cup