Destination the Temple of Speed (Monza) this weekend for the GT World Challenge Europe Endurance Cup with its expected fifty-seven car entry, with the six full season Aston Martin Racing powered contingent amongst them.
This is just the second round of the 2026 season having kicked off their five-round series at the six-hour racing visit to Paul Ricard back in early April.
That round witnessed an impressive start and come-back during the race for the #007 Comtoyou Racing AMR Vantage GT3 of Mattia Drudi, Nicki Thiim and Marco Sorensen who started from the front row of the grid but had to come back from behind to secure an overall race win at the death.
There was also a celebratory performance from the #21 Comtoyou Racing AMR of Kobe Pauwels, Oliver Soderstrom and Sebastian Baud who had to make do with a third-place finish in their silver class having secured the class pole position earlier in qualifying.
They were the AMR powered highs of the opening round – sadly countered by the early demise of the #34 Walkenhorst Motorsport Pro entry after Jamie Day suffered a heavy off during an earlier session that prevented him and his co-drivers Christian Krognes and Henrique Chaves from taking any further part.
Each of these teams will field another crew each in the form of the #11 Comtoyou Racing entry for Kyle Marcelli/AJ Muss/Marcelo Tomasoni within their bronze class entry alongside that of the #35 Walkenhorst Motorsport entry for Mateo Vilagomez/Ethan Ischer/Gaspard Simon and their silver classed entry.
The six will of course be completed with the presence of the #56 Ecurie Ecosse by Blackthorn AMR of Jonny Adam, Giacomo Petrobelli and Lorcan Hanafin who replaces the unfortunate Tom Wood who impressed so well in France.
Track activity will begin on Thursday with the Bronze Driver Test before moving onto another private test on Friday before Free Practice one and two on Saturday. An early start to Sunday will see the three individual qualifying runs before the green flag to this three-hour race being waved off at 15:30hrs local.
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