No Volante Rosso AMR Vantage GT3 at Bathurst next weekend
With an AMR Vantage GT3 being absent from many an event around the Mount Panorama circuit of late, the prospect of the #14 car being at the iconic circuit next weekend was certainly one to look forward to but continuing technical and mechanical ‘issues’ within the car from the previous round at Sydney Motorsport Park just a couple of weeks ago has put paid to that idea.
“Missing Bathurst was a difficult decision to make but one that had to be made," said Team Owner Josh Hunt.
“In light of the difficulties we faced in Sydney, we wanted to make sure we were prepared properly and because of the close turnaround between events – getting the car fixed and with a proper testing program was a real challenge.
We looked at all options and it just wasn’t in our interests to turn up without proper preparation and just hope for the best. We’re more structured than that.
Looking back on Sydney, the crew went above and beyond to try and get the car back on the road, and drivers Jamie Day and Andre Canard were absolute professionals during the weekend, the way everyone handled it and understood the process, so a big kudos to them” he went on to say.
“In light of the difficulties we faced in Sydney, we wanted to make sure we were prepared properly and because of the close turnaround between events – getting the car fixed and with a proper testing program was a real challenge.
We looked at all options and it just wasn’t in our interests to turn up without proper preparation and just hope for the best. We’re more structured than that.
Looking back on Sydney, the crew went above and beyond to try and get the car back on the road, and drivers Jamie Day and Andre Canard were absolute professionals during the weekend, the way everyone handled it and understood the process, so a big kudos to them” he went on to say.
We also await news from the KMB Motorsport stable as to whether or not their older generation V12 Aston Martin Racing Vantage GT3 will be in attendance as they also skipped the round at SMP.
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Saturday, November 02, 2024 |
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More bad luck down under for Volante Rosso in GT World Challenge Australia
With the locally based team initially posting that Andre Canard would be joining their young Alex Gardner behind the wheel of their #14 Aston Martin Racing Vantage GT3, that was later changed to Jamie Day joining Canard as Gardner would be sitting out the final two rounds of the series to concentrate upon his academic studies.
That is or at was as far as we knew.
With little information again coming out of the series, the timing results for each Free Practice and Qualifying sessions that preceded yesterday’s race would suggest issues again arose within the squad.
Free Practice one would see the #14 car enter just nine laps (compared to a maximum of thirty-three laps from the other thirteen runners but then only five laps within the next as well as being fourteen seconds off the pace. Then there was the matter of the timing screen showing that Day was partnered by Andrew Haryanto and not Canard.
With little information again coming out of the series, the timing results for each Free Practice and Qualifying sessions that preceded yesterday’s race would suggest issues again arose within the squad.
Free Practice one would see the #14 car enter just nine laps (compared to a maximum of thirty-three laps from the other thirteen runners but then only five laps within the next as well as being fourteen seconds off the pace. Then there was the matter of the timing screen showing that Day was partnered by Andrew Haryanto and not Canard.
The #14 car entered no Qualifying laps and did not enter the race itself for presumably a result of those issues.
It does, however, appear that Day’s long-distance travel from home in Dubai to Australia did eventually get some race time in as he entered the Radical Cup Australia round at the circuit to secure both a P5 and P12 result.
The final round of the season will be from Bathurst in mid-November.
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Saturday, October 19, 2024 |
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