• Partner team Garage 59 clinch Pro-Am class victory with Vantage GT3

•Jonny Adam, Alexander West and Chris Goodwin make the perfect start

•Vantage takes class win with AGS Events Racing in GT4 European Series

Sunday 26 July, 2020, Imola: Aston Martin Racing partner team Garage 59 made a flying start to their 2020 GT World Challenge Europe Endurance Cup (GTWC) campaign with victory in the Pro-Am class for Alexander West (SWE), works driver Jonny Adam (GB) and Aston Martin Lagonda high performance test driver Chris Goodwin (GB) at Imola.

'This was the perfect start for us this weekend,' said Adam, who was the Pro-Am Class champion in 2017. 'The Aston Martin Vantage GT3 performed perfectly this weekend, and we've not had much chance to test it as a team prior to the start of the season so it was really satisfying. Chris and Alex both drove really well, which made my job easier in the final stint. This is a short championship with only four rounds so to collect maximum points so early is really good for us. What a fantastic start!'

The Silver Class team of Valentin Hasse-Clot (F) and Andrew Watson (GB), delivered a similarly inspiring performance in the sister Garage 59 Vantage GT3 and looked all set to make it a double-victory for the team until contact with a rival forced their car off-track and the impressive young pairing were forced to settle for second place.

In the European GT4 Series double-header that supports the GTWC, new Aston Martin Racing partner team AGS Events Racing came away with a clutch of silverware on their first race with the Aston Martin Vantage GT4. Nicolas Gomar (F) and Gilles Vannelet (F) took the Am class victory in Race 2, having finished second in the season opener. Hasse-Clot, also racing for AGS meanwhile, shared second place overall in the opening race with Theo Nouet (F).

David King, President of Aston Martin Racing said: 'It's been an incredibly difficult start to the year for so many of Aston Martin Racing's customers. The coronavirus pandemic has created some extremely challenging conditions for everyone in the industry. Taking this into account, for two of our partner teams to have such excellent starts to their campaigns with the Vantage is deeply satisfying and a cause of great optimism for everyone involved in our customer programme. Both the GT3 and GT4 variants of the Vantage continue to prove their winning credentials, and with the opening round of the British GT Championship next weekend as well as a return to action for the GT3 in the IMSA GTD class at Road America on the horizon, this is a very encouraging result.'

The second round of the GTWC Endurance Cup takes place on the Nürburging Grand Prix circuit on 5-6 September, 2020.

Photo credit: Aston Martin The Americas
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