Car problems have forced the withdrawal of the Jet Alliance Aston Martins
Jetalliance Racing has withdrawn both cars from the race for safety reasons
despite a spot on the front row!
The news hit like a thunderbolt just a few hours before the first of two races in Bucharest that make up the sixth round of the FIA GT Championship: Jetalliance Racing is withdrawing both cars from the event for reasons of safety! And this despite a spot on the front row! Because Karl Wendlinger had put the Jetalliance Aston Martin DBR9 onto second spot in qualifying!
Team owner Lukas Lichtner-Hoyer: “We have discovered technical problems with both cars after qualifying, whose causes are yet unknown. I’m accustomed to giving safety the top priority in aviation. And in this case, I applied the same principle to the race team, forcing myself to take this unpopular, yet certainly only appropriate decision. This measure is even harder because we are giving up a front row start.”
Thus the race weekend is already over for the team from Lower Austria. Because the team will not take the start to tomorrow’s second race either!