– Bumper grid expected for world’s biggest GT3 race
– First 2019-spec V8 Vantage GT3 confirmed
Entries for round three of this season’s Intercontinental GT Challenge Powered by Pirelli – the Total 24 Hours of Spa – are now being accepted.
Amongst them will be the new-look Garage 59 for whom Spa marks the first of three appearances in the world’s only global GT3 championship with a 2019-specification Aston Martin V8 Vantage GT3. Europe’s date on July 25-28 is followed by the Suzuka 10 Hours in Japan (August 23-25) and South Africa’s historic international endurance race, the Kyalami 9 Hour (November 21-23), which was last staged in 1982.
The British team, co-owned by Alexander West, Andrew Kirkaldy and Chris Goodwin, has confirmed one of its two new Aston Martins will enter the Intercontinental GT Challenge from mid-season onwards, while two V8 Vantage GT3s are scheduled to contest all five Blancpain GT Series Endurance Cup rounds across Europe.
Goodwin, Andrew Watson and Jonny Adam are conducting Garage 59’s testing duties this week at Paul Ricard before the team announces both driver crews, including the one scheduled to enter Intercontinental GT Challenge, in due course.
“The Vantage GT3 looks great,