{"id":793635,"date":"2023-11-09T09:22:55","date_gmt":"2023-11-09T17:22:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportscardigest.com\/?p=512501"},"modified":"2024-02-07T02:05:24","modified_gmt":"2024-02-07T02:05:24","slug":"aston-martin-vantage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/aston-martin-vantage\/","title":{"rendered":"Aston Martin Vantage earns double podium in Bahrain"},"content":{"rendered":"

Leaving on top<\/h2>\n

The multiple title-winning Aston Martin Vantage GTE<\/a> recorded a double-podium finish on its final appearance in the FIA World Endurance Championship [WEC],<\/a> in the season-ending 8 Hours of Bahrain<\/a> on Saturday. The result brings the curtain down on an incredible era of GT racing, as the class closes with Vantage as the most successful car in LMGTE Am history.<\/p>\n

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2023 FIA World Endurance Championship
Round 7
Bahrain International Circuit, Bahrain
1st – 4th November 2023<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In a race free of Safety Car periods, pure performance mattered more in Bahrain than at any other race in the 2023 WEC, and this enabled Aston Martin Racing<\/a> partner teams D\u2019station Racing, Heart of Racing<\/a> and ORT by TF to show the true endurance pace of the Vantage GTE<\/a> and score a milestone 75th LMGTE Am podium in the category\u2019s final race.<\/p>\n

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2023 FIA World Endurance Championship
Round 7
Bahrain International Circuit, Bahrain
1st – 4th November 2023<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Heart of Racing<\/h2>\n

The Heart of Racing team made it a double-podium finish. Its trio of drivers, led by Team Principal Ian James (GBR), Daniel Mancinelli (ITA) and Alex Riberas (ESP) took third, with the team in contention for victory until contact delayed the #98 car with two hours to go. Heart of Racing\u2019s result is the latest in many achievements for the team with Vantage in the past 13 months. The US-based operation won the 2022 GTD division in the North American IMSA WeatherTech Sportscar Championship<\/a> and was the first GT car home in this year\u2019s Rolex 24<\/a> at Daytona \u2013 a first for Aston Martin.<\/p>\n

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2023 FIA World Endurance Championship
Round 7
Bahrain International Circuit, Bahrain
2nd – 4th November 2023
Photo: Michele Scudiero \/ Drew Gibson Photography<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Street car DNA<\/h2>\n

The race result means that the Vantage GTE, the prototype version of the British-built race car derived from Aston Martin<\/a>\u2019s critically-acclaimed ultra-luxury sportscar, shares the same aluminum body-frame and a specially-tuned version of the four-liter V8 turbo-charged production engine, completes the GTE Am era as its most successful car with a record 33 wins and a total of 75 podiums.<\/p>\n

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2023 FIA World Endurance Championship
Round 7
Bahrain International Circuit, Bahrain
1st – 4th November 2023<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Stellar resume<\/h2>\n

Combining both the GTE Am and GTE Pro classes \u2013 the latter of which was discontinued after 2022 \u2013 Vantage has amassed 52 victories in the WEC\u2019s 85 races and has finished on the podium 119 times, at least one of which came in every single season since the FIA revived the World Championship in 2012. Eleven world titles have been achieved in that time as well as five victories in the world\u2019s biggest motor race, the 24 Hours of Le Mans, including a GTE Pro and Am double in 2020.<\/p>\n

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2023 FIA World Endurance Championship
Round 7
Bahrain International Circuit, Bahrain
1st – 4th November 2023<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cThe Aston Martin Vantage GTE has completed every single one of its objectives and covered itself in glory in the process,\u201d said Aston Martin\u2019s Head of Endurance Racing Adam Carter. \u201cA multiple championship-winning race car, Vantage won the 24 Hours of Le Mans<\/a> in both classes and was a force throughout its six-year run in the world championship. It will be rightly remembered as one of the great sportscars in the modern era of the sport. We\u2019re incredibly excited about what\u2019s coming next for Aston Martin in world endurance racing, but we must also be proud of what has been achieved with Vantage GTE.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Race highlights<\/h2>\n