Enge and Mucke switch to GT1 Aston
Le Mans Series champions Tomas Enge and Stefan Mucke will join Darren Turner in the Young Driver Aston Martin GT1 team
Mucke, Enge and their co-driver Jan Charouz took the LMS LMP1 title with Aston Martin Racing last year. While Charouz has now returned to single-seaters in Formula Renault 3.5, his co-champions will remain within the Aston fold to race for the Fischer Racing-run Young Driver AMR project in the new GT1 World Championship.
Enge will team up with Turner in the #007 DBR9, while Mucke will be paired with 26-year-old Dane Christoffer Nygaard, who previously raced for Fischer's Ford GT3 team.
Young Driver AMR will run two of the four Astons in GT1, with the others entered by fellow GT3 graduate squad Hexis Racing. With a capacity grid of 24 cars expected and Nissan, Ford, Corvette, Maserati and Lamborghini represented in the field alongside Aston, Enge has high hopes for the series.
"For me it is a big challenge," said the Czech driver. "In each race, there will be 24 competitive GT cars made by six manufacturers. From some point of view it would be an impressive return to the legendary and attractive racing of the nineties."
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