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Aston Martin Racing welcomes new driver Maxime Martin

By Randy
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December 24, 2017

Aston Martin Racing (AMR) capped off its successful 2017 with the addition of a new driver to compete in next year’s FIA World Endurance Championship (WEC). Enter Maxime Martin; a 31 year old racing drive who’s the proud son of the 4-time Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps 24-hours winner Jean-Michel Martin.

AMR first caught glimpse of Martin’s racing prowess during the 2010 FIA GT1 World Championship where he drove a Ford GT. A year later, he was seen piloting a Marc VDS Lola Aston Martin DBR1-2 in the gruelling Le Mans 24 Hour race where he finished 7th. These achievements, plus his solid stints in various sanctioned GT races (including the German DTM Championship), and as BMW’s factory driver in 2013, were what prompted AMR to bring him.

Maxime Martin’s racing career dates back to the early 2000s. He started off well in 2005 as the world champion in the MINI Cooper Challenge. After that, he went on to compete in a number of single-seat races before finding his groove in GT racing. In 2008, he won 2nd place overall in the Megane Trophy. That same year, he clinched the championship title in the Clio Cup France.

Come next year, Martin will be piloting the new Aston Martin Vantage GTE, a track weapon which AMR is in the process of testing as of this writing.

“I’m extremely excited to join Aston Martin Racing for the WEC super-season. I have driven other Aston Martin Racing cars in the past and have been in contact with the team for the past few years, but I am quite honoured to take the next step with this great manufacturer. It’s a new challenge for me and also a big change, but I feel that this is the right moment to make this move, especially with the race debut of the new Vantage GTE. I have competed at Le Mans three times before, but to come back again next year as an official Aston Martin Racing driver is an amazing feeling. I very much hope we can look forward to a lot of success together,” – Maxime Martin.

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Randolph de Leon
Randy is a person with disability (PWD), a partially-blinded person with only his left eye functioning. Since childhood, the automobile has always been his passion, and is able to express it through photography and most recently, through writing as well. Outside the motoring beat, Randy spends time manning the media aspect of his business which he co-founded with his sister/college classmate. It's called Dragonlight Wellness and Solutions, a multi-business venture centering on improving peoples' lives through earning.