With just a few days left before the start to proceedings at the Gulf 12Hrs from Abu Dhabi, Aston Martin Racing have today confirmed a somewhat varied driver line up for their late GT4 entry into this weekends race events.

Announced off the back of their recent Partnership announcement with the Yas Marina circuit at the end of last month, it was confirmed that the new 2019 specification Aston Martin Racing V8 Vantage GT4 would also be at the event alongside the three brand new 2019 specification V8 Vantage GT3's from Oman Racing with TF Sport, Beechdean AMR and R-Motorsport as previously announced.


Today announcement sees TF Sport's British GT driver Mark Farmer join Optimum's young GT Open driver Ollie Wilkinson with British GT Mercedes GT4 driver Tom Canning and historic racer Adrian Wilmott all in the new factory development car for its first competitive race (albeit in its present non homologated state like the three GT3's).

A wide ranging degree of talent and ability here although the new car is aimed directly towards the customer market from where all of these drivers come so all will be very keen to see just how the new car performs!

Good luck to all


Photo credit - AMR

Having missed the opening round of the 2018/19 Asian Le Mans Series from Shanghai late last month, Red River Sport's second Gentleman driver Ivor Dunbar was cast well and truly into the deep end for this mornings Qualifying for the second round in Fuji, Japan.

With Johnny Mowlems motorsport and mentoring business (Red River Sport) behind this TF Sport prepared Aston Martin Racing V12 Vantage GT3 Asian Le Mans entry for the sole purpose of developing clients such as Dunbar and Bonamy Grimes to their full potential, it came as no surprise that Dunbar was left to Qualify their #5 car for Fuji just like Grimes had done in China despite other GT class entries fielding their fastest, and sometimes works factory drivers.

Only the forth team so far to publicly announce their imminent acquisition of two early examples of the 2019 specification Aston Martin Racing V8 Vantage GT3 - German based Prosport Performance have today gone onto announce their first set of the drivers.

Competing in the ADAC GT Masters Series in one of their new GT3's will be AMR WEC and former British GT Racer Maxime Martin who will join former Callaway Corvette driver and former ADAC GT Masters racer Daniel Keilwitz within the new AMR Partner Team.


This highly proficient racing team has decided to swap over to the new turbo charged era of the AMR Vantage GT3 and GT4 which they will race the latter in both the ADAC German GT4 and European GT Series as the English marque pushes to broaden their horizons and success in the world GT market.

The challenge now for both the factory and the team is to get these new cars built and to their Partner teams in time for pre-season testing - the ADAC GT Masters itself starts at the end of April at Oschersleben.

Photo credits - Prosport

With still just under one hundred days to go before the next instalment of the FIA's World Endurance Championship from Sebring in Florida, a provisional entry list has been today published for what will the sixth round out of eight of this years transitional 'super-season'.

Thirty four entries are so far confirmed for the 1000km's of Sebring event that will be held straight off the back of the 12Hours of Sebring IMSA event in the middle of March 2019.

For the Aston Martin Racing fan, the only points of note is the return to a three driver line up for the two factory GTE Pro cars with Darren Turner rejoining Marco Sorensen and Nicki Thiim aboard the #95 car whilst Jonny Adam swaps back from the TF Sports GTE Am entry to rejoin Maxime Martin and  Alex Lynn in the #97 car.

This move comes as no surprise after the cars reconfigured to a two driver line up straight after Le Mans.


What is surprising however, is the unexpected 'TBA' aboard the #90 TF Sport entry following Adam's 'repatriation' to the factory GTE Pro car in readiness for the longer endurance race in Florida - we sort of had expected Euan Hankey's name to automatically reappear in the car alongside Salih Yoluc and Charlie Eastwood but that is obviously yet to be confirmed.

We suppose that there is still plenty of time to wait and see who will take this available seat in the months ahead after all!

Just two weeks after competing at the opening round of the 2018/19 Asian Le Mans Series from Shanghai in China, many have been making their next long haul flight back to the Far East for the Series second round from the Fuji International in Japan this weekend.

Having arrived in Shanghai with a simple desire to enjoy themselves and learn from the experience, the crew of the #5 Red River Sport with TF Sport ended up giving themselves even more to cheer about with a well deserved podium finishing the 4Hours of Shanghai in P3 albeit with just two drivers.

With 2018 being the final year of factory assisted racing around the world for the extremely successful Aston Martin Racing V12 Vantage GT3, we bring to you our version a brief pictorial history of each of the forty five chassis made by the Prodrive factory since 2012.

This piece has been made possible with the kind support of Ivan at the Facebook Aston Martin V12 Vantage GT3 Chassis Number Tracking page and has been taken from the point in time towards the end of the end of Summer 2018. Whilst not every livery or race event has been listed, we have tried to illustrate the principle teams and series involved who between them have won a sizeable number of race and championship wins.

We are also hoping that Ivan goes on to expand upon all of these entries with further details that he has recorded in relation to drivers, races and finishes.

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Team - Aston Martin Racing - Test and development car
Location - UK


Team - Beechdean AMR - British GT/Blancpain
Location - UK
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