Aston Martin in serious N24 bid with TF Sport

Aston Martin will make its first bid for outright honours in the Nurburgring 24 Hours since 2018 with a factorysupported effort from TF Sport in May.

Works drivers Nicki Thiim, Marco Sorensen and Maxime Martin will share a Vantage GT3 in the Nurburgring-nordschleife enduro on 28-29 May with lap record holder David Pittard. It will be the debut for the car in the 24-hour fixture as well as the maiden appearance for TF, runnerup in the World Endurance Championship GTE Am points in each of the past two seasons.

TF will also take part in a trio of warm-up races as the British marque attempts to improve on its fourth-place finish from four years ago. Thiim, Sorensen and Pittard will compete in this weekend’s Nurburgring Langstrecken-serie round, with Martin replacing Pittard for another outing in one of the four-hour races later this month.

Two more factory drivers, Charlie Eastwood and Valentin Hasse-clot, will step in for the two threehour Nurburgring qualifying races on 7-8 May when the regular drivers are unavailable.