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IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship
IMSA is North America’s premier sports-car championship, mixing endurance classics such as the Rolex 24 at Daytona, the Twelve Hours of Sebring, Watkins Glen and Petit Le Mans with shorter, high-intensity races at circuits such as Long Beach and Laguna Seca. FTP follows IMSA because Aston Martin has a serious presence in both the top GTP class with the Valkyrie and in GTD with Vantage GT3 customer teams including Heart of Racing and Van der Steur Racing.
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IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship - Season So Far
Aston Martin’s 2026 IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship campaign has developed into two very different but equally important stories.
In GTD, the Aston Martin Vantage GT3 EVO has looked immediately competitive. Across the opening rounds, the car has been a genuine podium and championship contender, particularly in the hands of Heart of Racing. Daytona brought a double Aston Martin class podium, with Magnus Racing second in GTD and Heart of Racing third. Sebring followed with another second place for the #27 Heart of Racing Vantage, before Laguna Seca delivered yet another podium and strengthened the team’s position at the top of the GTD standings. Van der Steur Racing has also added useful depth to Aston Martin’s GTD presence, with the #19 Vantage showing pace even when the final result hasn’t always reflected the full story.
The Valkyrie’s GTP story is very different. The #23 Aston Martin THOR Team Valkyrie is competing in IMSA’s top class against highly experienced factory opposition from Porsche, Cadillac, Acura and BMW. Daytona was about reaching the finish on debut after electrical and mechanical issues. Sebring added more endurance mileage but also showed how much learning remains. Long Beach was frustrating because the final ninth-place result didn’t tell the whole story: Aston Martin later noted that the car had been running competitively before contact damaged its chances. Laguna Seca then felt like a genuine step forward, with the Valkyrie qualifying sixth and finishing eighth overall, its best IMSA GTP result of the season so far.
Detroit added another layer to the story. The tight Motor City street circuit didn’t appear to suit the Valkyrie naturally, and the race was compromised by an early pit-lane penalty and later contact that sent the #23 car into the wall. Even so, Ross Gunn and Roman De Angelis brought the car home 10th overall and 10th in GTP. That wasn’t a headline result, but for a new hypercar programme it still mattered: another finish, more data, more street-circuit experience and another race completed in public against some of the strongest prototype teams in the world.
Detroit also provided a useful reminder about the structure of IMSA. The Aston Martin Vantage GT3 EVO didn’t race there because GTD was not part of the WeatherTech field for that round. That meant Detroit was effectively a Valkyrie-only IMSA weekend for Aston Martin, while the stronger Vantage GT3 championship story waits for the GTD class to return.
From a Fuel the Passion perspective, the IMSA season so far is best read as a contrast between maturity and development. The Vantage GT3 EVO has already proven itself as a class-winning, podium-capable and championship-relevant car. The Valkyrie, meanwhile, is still being shaped by the demands of top-class prototype racing, but it’s finishing races, learning quickly and beginning to show flashes of promise. One Aston Martin programme is already fighting at the sharp end; the other is still climbing towards it.
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Latest Result
Chevrolet Detroit Sports Car Classic
IMSA’s 100-minute street race in Detroit delivered a home-ground victory for Cadillac, with the #31 Cadillac Whelen V-Series.R winning overall ahead of BMW M Team WRT and Cadillac Wayne Taylor Racing. For Aston Martin, the focus was the #23 Aston Martin THOR Team Valkyrie, which reached the finish in a tough, bruising race and was classified 10th overall and 10th in GTP.
One useful point for Aston Martin followers is that Detroit was not a full Aston Martin IMSA weekend in the usual sense. The Vantage GT3 EVO did not appear because GTD was not part of the Detroit WeatherTech field. That meant the marque’s IMSA story at Detroit centred entirely on the Valkyrie in GTP, while the Vantage GT3 campaign waits for the GTD class to return.
| Pos | Class Pos | Car | Team | Drivers | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 GTP | #31 Cadillac V-Series.R | Cadillac Whelen | Jack Aitken / Earl Bamber | Overall winner |
| 2 | 2 GTP | #25 BMW M Hybrid V8 | BMW M Team WRT | Philipp Eng / Marco Wittmann | +6.023s |
| 3 | 3 GTP | #10 Cadillac V-Series.R | Cadillac Wayne Taylor Racing | Ricky Taylor / Filipe Albuquerque | GTP podium |
| 4 | 4 GTP | #93 Acura ARX-06 | Acura Meyer Shank Racing | Renger van der Zande / Nick Yelloly | Best Acura |
| 5 | 5 GTP | #7 Porsche 963 | Porsche Penske Motorsport | Felipe Nasr / Julien Andlauer | Best Porsche |
| Overall | Class Pos | Car | Team | Drivers | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10 | 10 GTP | #23 Aston Martin Valkyrie | Aston Martin THOR Team | Ross Gunn / Roman De Angelis | Finished a bruising street race; 82 laps completed; +12.558s |
| Not entered | GTD not racing | Aston Martin Vantage GT3 EVO | Heart of Racing Team / van der Steur Racing | — | Detroit featured GTP and GTD Pro only, so the GTD Vantage story resumes at a later round |
| Overall | Class Pos | Car | Team | Drivers | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12 | 1 GTD Pro | #3 Chevrolet Corvette Z06 GT3.R | Corvette Racing by Pratt Miller Motorsports | Antonio Garcia / Alexander Sims | GTD Pro winner |
| 13 | 2 GTD Pro | #9 Lamborghini Temerario GT3 | Pfaff Motorsports | Andrea Caldarelli / Sandy Mitchell | GTD Pro podium |
| 14 | 3 GTD Pro | #65 Ford Mustang GT3 | Ford Racing | Christopher Mies / Frédéric Vervisch | GTD Pro podium |
FTP Summary: Detroit was a tough, uncompromising street-circuit weekend for Aston Martin’s Valkyrie, but the #23 THOR Team entry reached the finish, gained more valuable IMSA mileage, and kept the marque’s hypercar learning curve moving forward while the Vantage GT3 story waits for the GTD class to return.
Championship Standings
IMSA’s Detroit race report notes that Cadillac has moved ahead of Porsche in the GTP manufacturers’ standings after the #31 Cadillac victory. Aston Martin remains in the early development phase of its GTP programme with the #23 Valkyrie, while the GTD championship tables below should be refreshed when IMSA publishes the next full official standings update.
| Manufacturer | Detroit context | FTP note |
|---|---|---|
| Cadillac | Detroit winner with #31 Cadillac Whelen | Moved ahead in GTP manufacturers’ standings after Detroit |
| BMW | Second overall with #25 BMW M Team WRT | Second consecutive podium for the #25 BMW |
| Porsche | Best Porsche finished fifth with #7 Penske | JDC-Miller #5 lost ground after penalty/contact with Valkyrie |
| Acura | Best Acura finished fourth with #93 Meyer Shank | Remains part of the front-running GTP fight |
| Aston Martin | #23 Valkyrie finished 10th overall / 10th GTP | More race mileage and street-circuit data for the young Valkyrie programme |
| No. | Team | Car | Latest result | FTP note |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #23 | Aston Martin THOR Team | Aston Martin Valkyrie | 10th overall / 10th GTP at Detroit | Finished the race after early pit-lane penalty and mid-race contact |
| Drivers | Car / Team | Latest result | FTP note |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ross Gunn / Roman De Angelis | #23 Aston Martin Valkyrie / Aston Martin THOR Team | 10th GTP at Detroit | Continued Valkyrie’s first IMSA season with another classified finish |
| Class | Aston Martin entry | Detroit status | FTP note |
|---|---|---|---|
| GTD | Aston Martin Vantage GT3 EVO | Not part of the Detroit WeatherTech race | A useful reader explainer: Detroit was a Valkyrie-only WeatherTech weekend for Aston Martin |
Standing tables should be fully refreshed once IMSA publishes the post-Detroit official championship tables. For now, Detroit is best treated as a latest-result update, with Aston Martin’s GTP focus on Valkyrie mileage and the GTD Vantage GT3 campaign paused until the class returns.
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Round 05 - IMSA Detroit: Valkyrie reaches the finish in a bruising Motor City sprint
The IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship returned to the streets of Detroit for the Chevrolet Detroit Sports Car Classic, a 100-minute sprint around the tight 1.645-mile Detroit Street Circuit. It was a race won on home ground by General Motors, with the #31 Cadillac Whelen Cadillac V-Series.R of Jack Aitken and Earl Bamber taking overall victory ahead of the #25 BMW M Team WRT entry of Philipp Eng and Marco Wittmann, with the #10 Cadillac Wayne Taylor Racing car of Ricky Taylor and Filipe Albuquerque completing the GTP podium.
For Aston Martin, the focus was the #23 Aston Martin THOR Team Valkyrie of Ross Gunn and Roman De Angelis. Detroit was always likely to be one of the more awkward venues for the car. Aston Martin’s own preview described the downtown street circuit as narrow, unforgiving, tight, twisty and dominated by 90-degree corners, while Ross Gunn called it one of the hardest tracks to drive a hypercar around because of the short layout and twisty nature of the course.
The Valkyrie qualified ninth in GTP, with Gunn and De Angelis starting from behind the main Cadillac, Acura, BMW and Porsche factory contenders. In the race, the #23 car reached the finish and was provisionally classified 10th overall and 10th in GTP, completing the same 82-lap distance as the overall winner and finishing 12.558 seconds behind. On paper that looks close, but the Aston Martin’s race was far from straightforward.
The early part of the race placed the #23 Valkyrie in the traffic and strategy shuffle. The broadcast transcript notes that Heart of Racing brought the Valkyrie in early with Roman De Angelis taking over, but the car then had to return to pit lane after a pit-stop infringement for crew members being over the wall before the car had stopped. That drive-through dropped the Aston Martin deeper into a race that was already becoming a tactical street-circuit fight.
The most significant Aston Martin moment came later when Laurin Heinrich, in the #5 JDC-Miller Motorsports Porsche 963, was judged responsible for forcing the #23 Valkyrie into the wall. IMSA’s own race report says Heinrich received a stop-plus-60-seconds penalty for the incident, while Sportscar365 also described the penalty as a major blow to the former championship leader’s race.
From that point, the Valkyrie’s Detroit afternoon became more about survival, mileage and bringing the car home. The result wasn’t the breakthrough that Aston Martin THOR Team would’ve hoped for after encouraging signs at Long Beach, Laguna Seca and the wider Valkyrie programme’s recent Spa performance in WEC, but it was still another completed IMSA race on a very different type of circuit. For a young hypercar programme, that matters. Detroit offered more data, more street-course learning and another reminder that the Valkyrie is being developed in public, against highly experienced factory opposition.
In GTD Pro, Corvette Racing by Pratt Miller Motorsports completed the GM story, with Antonio Garcia and Alexander Sims winning in the #3 Chevrolet Corvette Z06 GT3.R. The #9 Pfaff Motorsports Lamborghini Temerario GT3 finished second, scoring an important early podium for Lamborghini’s new GT3 car, while the #65 Ford Racing Mustang GT3 of Christopher Mies and Frédéric Vervisch completed the class podium after a chaotic final phase.
There is also a small but important Aston Martin GT3 footnote to this Detroit round. While the Aston Martin Vantage GT3 EVO has been a major part of Aston Martin’s 2026 IMSA story so far, Detroit’s WeatherTech race did not include a GTD entry for the Heart of Racing Vantage. The event was restricted to GTP and GTD Pro, with the Aston Martin presence therefore centred on the #23 Valkyrie rather than the #27 Vantage GT3 EVO. That matters because the Vantage has already been one of Aston Martin’s strongest IMSA storylines this season, with Aston Martin reporting after Laguna Seca that the Heart of Racing Vantage had taken a fourth IMSA podium of 2026 and extended its GTD championship lead. Detroit, then, was a Valkyrie-only weekend for Aston Martin in WeatherTech competition, but the Vantage GT3 story remains very much alive for the next GTD round.
For the FTP Motorsport Hub, the key Aston Martin takeaway is measured but positive. Detroit did not appear to play to the natural strengths of the Valkyrie, and the #23 car’s race was compromised by a pit-lane penalty and later contact. Even so, the Aston Martin THOR Team entry made the finish in a fiercely competitive GTP field, continuing the steady process of building experience with the only road-derived hypercar competing across IMSA and WEC.
FTP Summary Line
Detroit was a tough, uncompromising street-circuit weekend for Aston Martin’s Valkyrie, but the #23 THOR Team entry reached the finish, gained more valuable IMSA mileage, and kept the marque’s hypercar learning curve moving forward while the Vantage GT3 story waits for the GTD class to return.
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Round 04 - StubHub Monterey SportsCar Championship 2026
The fourth round of the 2026 IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship took the series to WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca for the StubHub Monterey SportsCar Championship. Overall victory went to the #5 JDC-Miller MotorSports Porsche 963 of Tijmen van der Helm and Laurin Heinrich, ahead of the #31 Cadillac Whelen Cadillac V-Series.R of Jack Aitken and Earl Bamber, with the #25 BMW M Team WRT BMW M Hybrid V8 of Philipp Eng and Marco Wittmann completing the podium. The currently available IMSA timing document is marked as an unofficial result, so it remains sensible to treat it as the working classification until IMSA publishes its final confirmed result.
From an Aston Martin perspective, Laguna Seca felt like one of the more constructive IMSA weekends of the season so far. In GTP, the #23 Aston Martin THOR Team Valkyrie, driven by Ross Gunn and Roman De Angelis, finished eighth overall and eighth in class, completing 119 laps and ending the race 8.010 seconds behind the winning Porsche in the unofficial classification. That made it the Valkyrie’s best IMSA GTP finish of the campaign to date. On its own, eighth place in a ten-car GTP field does not transform the wider story, but it does continue the sense that the programme is inching forward. The car had also qualified sixth overall, which added to the impression that this was a steadier and more encouraging weekend than some of the earlier rounds.
The GTD side of Aston Martin’s IMSA effort was stronger still. The #27 Heart of Racing Team Aston Martin Vantage GT3 Evo, shared by Dudu Barrichello and Aston Martin works driver Tom Gamble, finished second in class behind the #45 Wayne Taylor Racing Lamborghini. According to Aston Martin Racing’s own post-race brief, this was the fourth Vantage podium from four IMSA rounds in 2026, following the season-opening Rolex 24 at Daytona and the earlier GTD podiums already secured this year. It was also Barrichello’s third podium of his rookie IMSA season, which says a great deal about how quickly he’s settled into the championship. AMR also notes that the result increased Barrichello’s lead in the GTD drivers’ championship, while Heart of Racing extended its advantage at the top of the GTD teams’ standings. That gives the result a little more weight than a simple second place on the day might suggest: this wasn’t merely another good finish, but a result that strengthened Aston Martin’s most competitive IMSA title challenge.
Van der Steur Racing also deserves more than a brief mention. Rory van der Steur put the #19 Aston Martin Vantage GT3 Evo sixth on the GTD grid, underlining the car’s pace over one lap. With Valentin Hasse-Clot away on European Le Mans Series duty, Scott Andrews joined van der Steur for the race. Their afternoon then became far more complicated than the final classification alone would suggest. After suffering first-lap damage, the car required an early unscheduled stop for repairs. From there, the team fought back strongly, regaining the lead lap and at one stage running as high as second in GTD thanks to an alternative fuel strategy. In the end, with no Full Course Yellow in the closing stages to help the fuel calculation, a late splash-and-dash was needed, and the #19 came home 10th in class. Even so, AMR was right to frame it as a recovery drive of some substance rather than a routine 10th place.
From a Fuel the Passion perspective, Laguna Seca was not a breakthrough weekend in the dramatic sense, but it was a genuinely positive one. The Valkyrie programme continued to make steady progress in GTP, while the Vantage GT3 effort again looked far more mature and competitive, particularly through Heart of Racing’s second place and strengthened championship position. Van der Steur Racing’s recovery drive also added a useful reminder that there was more depth to Aston Martin’s GTD weekend than the podium alone. Taken together, Laguna Seca felt like a weekend of real forward movement for Aston Martin in IMSA: not a headline-grabbing transformation, but a solid and meaningful step in the right direction.
FTP Summary Line
Aston Martin’s IMSA weekend at Laguna Seca was a constructive one. The #23 Valkyrie recorded its best GTP finish of the season so far with eighth overall, while the #27 Heart of Racing Vantage delivered another strong GTD podium in second. The result did not transform the overall picture, but it did give both Aston Martin IMSA strands something tangible to build on.
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Round 03 - Acura Grand Prix of Long Beach 2026
The third round of the 2026 IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship took the series to the streets of Long Beach for a shorter, sharper 100-minute race featuring the GTP and GTD classes. Overall victory went to the #93 Acura Meyer Shank Racing Acura ARX-06 of Renger van der Zande and Nick Yelloly, ahead of the #31 Cadillac Whelen Cadillac V-Series.R and the #6 Porsche Penske Motorsport Porsche 963. The top five was completed by the #7 Porsche and the #24 BMW M Team WRT entry.
For Aston Martin, Long Beach was a frustrating but not empty weekend. The #23 Aston Martin THOR Team Valkyrie of Ross Gunn and Roman De Angelis finished ninth overall and ninth in GTP, one lap down. On the result sheet, that looked like another modest top-class finish. But Aston Martin’s own later preview for Laguna Seca made clear that the Long Beach result did not fully reflect the car’s pace, stating that the Valkyrie had been running a competitive fourth before contact from a rival with less than an hour remaining.
The GTD story was mixed as well. The #19 van der Steur Racing Aston Martin Vantage GT3 Evo, shared by Rory van der Steur and Valentin Hasse-Clot, finished 17th overall and eighth in GTD. The #27 Heart of Racing Team Aston Martin Vantage GT3 Evo, driven by Dudu Barrichello and Spencer Pumpelly, finished 19th overall and 10th in GTD. Aston Martin later noted that van der Steur Racing had run as high as second in class before finishing eighth, while Heart of Racing left Long Beach still leading the GTD teams’ standings despite the compromised race result.
From a Fuel the Passion perspective, Long Beach is a race that needs careful handling. The final classifications alone make it look like a flat weekend: ninth in GTP, eighth and tenth in GTD. But the underlying Aston Martin story is more nuanced. The Valkyrie again showed flashes of genuine performance before contact interrupted what might have been its strongest IMSA result of the season so far, while the Vantage GT3 Evo entries preserved useful championship positions even without a podium. It was not a result to celebrate, but it was also not a weekend without signs of progress.
FTP Summary Line
Aston Martin’s Long Beach weekend was better than the final result first suggested. The #23 Valkyrie finished ninth in GTP after losing ground from a stronger position, while van der Steur Racing took eighth in GTD and Heart of Racing retained the class teams’ championship lead despite a 10th-place finish.
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Round 02 - 12 Hours of Sebring 2026
The second round of the 2026 IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship was the Mobil 1 Twelve Hours of Sebring, one of the toughest endurance races in North America. Porsche Penske Motorsport took overall victory with the #7 Porsche 963 of Felipe Nasr, Julien Andlauer and Laurin Heinrich, ahead of the sister #6 Porsche. The #31 Cadillac Whelen Cadillac V-Series.R completed the overall podium, followed by the #60 Acura Meyer Shank Racing Acura and the #24 BMW M Team WRT entry.
For Aston Martin, the strongest story again came in GTD. The #27 Heart of Racing Team Aston Martin Vantage GT3 Evo, driven by Dudu Barrichello, Tom Gamble and Zacharie Robichon, finished second in GTD, less than a second behind the class-winning AF Corse USA Ferrari. The result continued Aston Martin’s strong GTD start to the IMSA season, following the double Vantage podium at Daytona. Aston Martin’s own report noted that Heart of Racing had taken GTD pole with Barrichello and remained in victory contention deep into the race.
The race was not straightforward. Heart of Racing’s own recap recorded that the #27 started from GTD pole, led 100 laps, and had to recover from setbacks including a drive-through penalty around the six-hour mark and an unplanned stop caused by debris build-up. Even so, the car came back to finish second, with the team leaving Sebring as provisional GTD championship leaders.
The #23 Aston Martin THOR Team Valkyrie also continued its early GTP development programme. Ross Gunn, Roman De Angelis and Alex Riberas brought the car home 19th overall and ninth in GTP, 12 laps behind the winning Porsche. Heart of Racing reported that Gunn had climbed as high as fifth before a combination of a penalty and a later restart issue cost the Valkyrie significant time. The car still reached the finish, which matters for a new top-class endurance programme, but the result again showed that the Valkyrie’s IMSA story remains one of learning and race-by-race development rather than headline competitiveness.
From a Fuel the Passion perspective, Sebring was another split weekend for Aston Martin. The Vantage GT3 Evo was once again right at the sharp end in GTD, taking pole, leading laps and finishing second in class. The Valkyrie, meanwhile, completed another demanding endurance race and gathered more vital GTP mileage, but still lost ground through penalties and technical interruption. In simple terms, Aston Martin’s GTD campaign looked strong and mature; the Valkyrie programme remained promising, but still very much in its early proving phase.
FTP Summary Line
Aston Martin left Sebring with another strong GTD podium as the #27 Heart of Racing Vantage finished second after starting from pole and leading 100 laps. The #23 Valkyrie reached the finish in GTP, but penalties and a restart issue kept it from converting early promise into a stronger result.
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Round 01 - Rolex at Daytona 2026
The 2026 IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship opened with the Rolex 24 at Daytona, one of the great endurance races on the global calendar. Overall victory went to the #7 Porsche Penske Motorsport Porsche 963 of Felipe Nasr, Julien Andlauer and Laurin Heinrich, finishing just 1.569 seconds ahead of the #31 Cadillac Whelen Cadillac V-Series.R. The #24 BMW M Team WRT entry completed the overall podium, with the top nine cars all coming from the GTP class.
For Aston Martin, Daytona carried two very different stories. In GTD, the Vantage GT3 Evo produced an excellent result, with two Aston Martins finishing on the class podium. The #44 Magnus Racing Vantage, driven by John Potter, Spencer Pumpelly, Nicki Thiim and Madison Snow, finished second in GTD, while the #27 Heart of Racing Team Vantage of Tom Gamble, Dudu Barrichello, Zacharie Robichon and Mattia Drudi finished third. The official result also placed the #19 van der Steur Racing Aston Martin Vantage 11th in GTD.
The #27 Heart of Racing car had started from GTD pole in the hands of Zacharie Robichon and remained a factor in the class fight. Heart of Racing’s own recap recorded that the car led 99 laps, reached a highest position of first in class, and finished third after completing all 661 GTD laps. That made it a strong points start for Dudu Barrichello’s first Rolex 24 and gave Mattia Drudi a second Daytona podium from two Rolex 24 starts.
The other major Aston Martin storyline was the Rolex 24 debut of the #23 Aston Martin THOR Team Valkyrie in GTP. The car, shared by Ross Gunn, Roman De Angelis, Alex Riberas and Marco Sørensen, was classified 31st overall and 10th in GTP, 44 laps behind the winning Porsche. The result itself was not the headline Aston Martin wanted, but it was still an important endurance debut for the Valkyrie in IMSA’s top class. Heart of Racing noted that the car reached as high as sixth but lost significant time with an electrical issue around the five-hour mark, followed by another mechanical problem in the final hour before returning to finish the race.
From a Fuel the Passion perspective, Daytona was therefore a split result. The Vantage GT3 Evo again proved its value in GTD, with Magnus Racing and Heart of Racing both on the class podium and Aston Martin genuinely in the victory fight. The Valkyrie’s GTP debut was more difficult, but the car reached the flag and gathered crucial race mileage in one of the hardest endurance races of the season. That makes Daytona a strong GTD result for Aston Martin, and a learning race for the new GTP programme.
FTP Summary Line
Aston Martin’s IMSA season began with a strong GTD showing at Daytona, as Magnus Racing and Heart of Racing put the Vantage GT3 Evo second and third in class. The Valkyrie’s GTP debut was more difficult, but the #23 car reached the finish and gave the programme valuable mileage at one of endurance racing’s toughest events.
Image © Aston Martin Lagonda. Used for editorial purposes.
Image © Aston Martin Lagonda. Used for editorial purposes.