SEVEN new AMR Vantage GT3s due at GT World Challenge Europe opener at Paul Ricard next weekend
Last year we saw the Bullitt Racing team as being the sole Aston Martin Racing representative within their series with their silver class entry, but this season (aided of course with the presence of the new 2024 AMR Vantage GT3 for the first time) we will see up to seven of these new GT3 beasts running between the Comtoyou Racing and Walkenhorst Motorsport teams this year.
Confirming an entry list of fifty-five cars spread across its four available classes, both new AMR Partner teams will be fielding entries across the Pro, Bronze and Silver graded class with driver line ups more than capable of bring home the silverware.
The Belgium based Comtoyou squad still have their #11 Bronze graded squad to confirm ahead of next weekend’s opener, but they have already confirmed a full Pro line up of Nicki Thiim, Mattia Drudi and Marco Sorensen aboard their #7 car, together with Nicolas Baert, Sebastian øGaard and Finlay Hutchinson in their #12 Silver entry and Sam Dejonghe, Matisse Lismont and Charles Clark in their #21 silver entry.
Not to be outdone (but one entry less) comes the German based Walkenhorst Motorsport entry who will field drivers David Pittard, Henrique Chaves and Ross Gunn as their full Pro line up alongside Romain Leroux, Lorcan Hanafin and Maxime Robin in their #35 silver line up and Tim Creswick, Max Jensen and Ben Green aboard the sole bronze class line up.
We have now seen most of the above drivers testing their new 2024 chariots at some point already this pre-season, but what we haven’t seen yet are their new ‘in the flesh’ livery designs so next weekend’s build up will stay have a large element of new within it.
Friday will start will the bronze driver test, before Free Practice and Pre-Qualifying on Saturday, individual Qualifying on Sunday morning before the race start at 15:00hrs local.
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Friday, March 29, 2024 |
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Changes confirmed with Prosport Racings ADAC N24 driver line ups
Still entering one Vantage GT3 and two Vantage GT4’s see both Christophe Breuer and Mike David Ortmann remain within the teams #28 SP9 Pro-Am entry but with both Maxime Dumarey and Ben Green joining the party.
That differs from the four-driver statement previously released by the team in advance of the recently completed Qualification race weekend after contact for the car saw it drop out in the early stages that sees one reassigned to a GT4 car and the other replaced by Green.
Also changing will be the #78 SP10 entry for a new driver line up of Guido Dumarey, Yevgen Sokolovskiy and Michael Hess alongside the sister #79 SP10 entry for Guillaume Dumarey, Alex Mies, Andreas Petzelt and Hugo Sasse.
"Our goal is clearly to win the class in the Pro-Am class!", said team boss Esser underlines the objective ahead of the endurance classic. "In addition, we hope to finish in the top 10 overall, which is definitely possible if we deliver a flawless race" which we all know is certainly easier said than done.
The team have this week been busy at the ADAC GT4 Germany test at Oschersleben for their multiple entries this season within that series.
Photo credits – Eric Metzner
Photo credits – Eric Metzner
Wednesday, May 10, 2023 |
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