The Swiss team revealed at the end of last month that it will certainly tip down from the German visiting cars and truck collection after simply one period of independently running the Vantage DTM under permit from Aston Martin.
However, the expertise it acquired in developing the version can verify beneficial in a capacity entry right into SUPER GT, which will formally embrace Class One laws at the beginning of this year.
R-Motorsport manager Florian Kamelger claimed the team’s separation from the DTM does not lead to completion of the Vantage Class One program which he would not eliminate signing up with the GT500 course in the future.
At existing, SUPER GT’s front runner classification includes an all-Japanese producer competitors in between Nissan, Toyota and also Honda.
” I constantly state, and also as for I can speak for [Aston Martin CEO] Andy Palmer, which I can not, however also Andy Palmer claimed in an interview which we had with each other Japan is a vital market for us,” Kamelger informedMotorsport com.
“I think Super GT500 is very, very appealing and interesting. Having said that, the answer is it’s not over. There is no short-term plan to enter it, but the series is very appealing to us and still an open question mark on that.”
The 4 Vantages R-Motorsport competed in 2019, plus an examination version, have all stayed in the property of its previous companion HWA considering that completion of the period.
A previous effort to market the vehicles to an exclusive purchaser in Hong Kong was ambushed as a result of on-going civil discontent in the area.
Asked if all the Vantages have actually currently been offered, Kamelger claimed: “The DTM vehicles come from HWA, our companion in Vynamic [the joint venture established to oversee the project] which was concurred at the end of summertime 2019 – to make sure that was a lasting strategy to do that.
” I can not discuss where they are and also to whom they are offered actually. You need to go back to HWA.”
Aston was by the way the last international producer to contend in SUPER GT’s GT500 course when it got in a model of its Le Mans 24 Hours class-winning DBR9 in 2009.
It presently has an existence in the collection’ second-tier GT300 classification with a solo factory-supported Vantage GT3 run by neighborhood team D’station Racing.