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Old 13 Oct 2018, 19:53 (Ref:3856571)   #6
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Originally Posted by sceptic View Post
That's not the case. Aston Martin Racing has no involvement with this programme. It is purely a licensing deal for the body shape.

Note how there was no quote from Aston Martin in the press release, or how @AMR_official or @AstonMartinPR hasn't tweeted about this (or even retweeted someone else).



Not at all obvious.



This is not an Aston Martin customer team.

It is an Aston Martin customer programme. Exactly, exactly the same as the GT3 programme R Motorsport currently run.

Matt was suggesting Aston Martin support it, in terms of liking the idea, I dont think he is suggesting AM are financially supporting the project in any way. They are not.

What is likely the situation, is that R Motorsport pitched the idea to AM, and based on the quality of the Blancpain programme this year from R, and the quality of the proposed partner in HWA, agreed to offer the license.

From there, they have no involvement other than happily watching the programme from the sidelines. This is actually a great approach for them, if the programme fails they say it was never really AM... If its a success, they say yep thats an Aston Martin, look at the badging.

And heck, maybe if it goes well enough they will add some extra resource to it in the future.
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