Aston Martin GT4 wins at Nurburgring

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 Gulden - Chief Instructor of Aston Martin's Driving Academy - at the wheel. In dry and sunny conditions, he and team mate Egon Allgauer drove superbly throughout the four-hour race to clinch victory by a mere 0.5 seconds from their nearest challenger to add to the Nurburgring 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 gruelling 25km circuit. 

In class SP8, the V12 Vantage of Marcus Mahy, Jesse Menczer and Nurburgring 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 2013 Aston Martin GT4 Challenge of Great Britain reached its conclusion over the weekend with Andrew Jarman and Craig Dolby of Stratton Motorsport taking their second win of the year. At Norfolk's Snetterton circuit, the pair qualified on pole position with a clear margin to the chasing pack and controlled the advantage throughout the two-hour race.

The seven-round 2013 GT4 Challenge of Great Britain - which took in several of the U.K.'s finest race tracks including Silverstone, Donington Park and Brands Hatch, as well as the legendary Spa-Francorchamps in Belgium - was the fourth consecutive year for the series.