Aston Martin GT4 Wins at Nurburgring
Aston Martin’s Nürburgring Test Centre team has won its class in the seventh round of the 2013 VLN series having qualified on pole position. Running in the highly competitive SP10 category for GT4-specification cars, the #186 V8 Vantage set a qualifying time of 8:50.830 with Andy Gülden – chief instructor of Aston Martin’s Driving Academy – at the wheel. In dry and sunny conditions, he and team-mate Egon Allgäuer then drove superbly throughout the four-hour race to clinch victory by a mere 0.5 seconds from their nearest challenger to add to the Nürburgring Test Centre Team’s tally of VLN class wins. Also running in SP10, the Vantage GT4 of Team Mathol Racing finished in third position, within 30 seconds of the winning Aston Martin, having also completed 26 laps of the grueling 15.5-mile circuit.
In class SP8, the V12 Vantage of Marcus Mahy, Jesse Menczer and Nürburgring Test Centre Director Wolfgang Schuhbauer qualified and finished in fourth position.
David King, Head of Motorsport at Aston Martin, commented: “It is not by chance that the Aston Martin V8 Vantage is the most successful GT4 car in the world. The FIA GT4 class allows minimal performance modifications from standard road-going specification, so the inherent dynamic performance of the V8 Vantage comes strongly into focus.
The factory Aston Martin Racing team will continue its race-winning campaign in the FIA World Endurance Championship as the series heads to Fuji, Japan, on 20 October.
Credits: Oneshift News Team
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