After missing the last round of Blancpain GT Series Asia due to business commitments, James Cai and Kenneth Lim made a successful return to the championship at Fuji in their #69 CMRT Aston Martin Vantage GT3.

A fifth place in the Am-Am class, after accident damage forced an unscheduled pit stop, in the first race of the weekend was followed up by a second in class, Kenneth Lim having led the class for much of his stint in the car.

It took the duo a while to shake off the cobwebs, not having sat in a race car for three months, but by the first race day they were back in the groove and feeling confident. However, contact on the first lap saw Cai having to pit twice to repair the damage and the time lost resulted in a drop to fifth in class.

“With the pace both drivers demonstrated today, I am confident we can be on the podium tomorrow,” was the opinion of Team Manager, Martin Quick.

Indeed, he proved to be correct, with Lim taking second place after a good start and this soon became first when the leading Audi fell by the wayside. After the pit stops had cycled through James Cai emerged in second place which he held to the flag.

Round five of the series will be held at Shanghai on 24 September. “As most of our class competitors have a lot of experience compared to James in particular we know that they will not get much quicker whereas James and Kenneth are improving with every event,” said Quick. “We cannot wait for Shanghai where I am sure we can be closer to a class win.”

Source material - CMRT Eurasia

George Miedecke earlier confirmed that he and the Miedecke Stone Motorsport team shall indeed skip next weekends Sydney Motorsport Park's opening round of the Australian Endurance Series.

Despite hoping to compete and defend their 2016 winning achievement it appears that factors unknown have prevented this.

George did however confirm that his father Andrew shall be out racing again in a V8 Vantage GT4 in a few weeks time

Being away from home with the same old issue of intermittent broadband there's just enough time to bring you these updates.

Aston Martin Nordschleife specialist Peter Cate has revealed that he will be taking up large step up the racing ladder this week by testing an AMR V12 Vantage GT3 on the Nurburgring Grand Prix loop later this week.



Having made his mark competing on the Nordschleife for over fourteen years, Cate has spent the last seven racing principally for Aston Martin Lagonda principally and their Test Centre squad in the SP8 class in both the ADAC N24 and VLN Series races.





This year Cate joined up with AMR works drivers Darren Turner and Nicki Thiim together with R Motorsport's  Markus Lungstrass to win the SP8 class and finish P22 overall in the 'one of a kind' AML Vantage GT8.


At the moment we understand that this is a simple 'no strings attached' test but will be his first experience of a GT3 platform.


Photo credits - AMR / Cate

It appears that those in Copenhagen this weekend had a right feast of motor sport activity at their annual Historic Grand Prix event.

Including racing and displays from a whole range of race cars and series of various ages, it appears that they were also given a spectacle of everything old and new from Aston Martin Racing including the form of the older Young Driver AMR DB9 and the newer AMR Vantage Pro and Rapide with various things in between.



With not only Nicki Thiim and Marco Sorensen being on hand, they were also joined by Jan Struve and Jac Nellemann from Young Driver AMR (amongst others) to put on a display including a run in the YD AMR 2016 WEC GTE Pro winning car (or on every much like it). Danish squad, Massive Motorsport were also there but only in the Danish Touring Car running guise.


Thanks for all who posted photos and video of the event on-line

Photo credits - Social Media / Copenhagen Historic GP

Dual SRO Series duo Matt Nichol-Jones and Will Moore finally hooked it together this afternoon to claim pole position in the GT4 class for tomorrows penultimate round of the 2017 British GT Championship from Brands Hatch.

With all the teams facing some really tricky track conditions today with sometimes very heavy rain showers between sessions (and importantly just before GT Qualifying itself) the crew of the #62 car carried calm heads to claim their first class pole of the season by over a tenth from the second placed #100 McLaren 570S in the incredible strong 18 car entry.


Further to the front go of the grid, top honours in the GT3 field again went to the #24 MacMillan Racing Vantage of Jack Mitchell and James Littlejohn who finished second to the 'absolutely flying' championship leading Lamborghini of Phil Keen and Jon Minshaw.

Just behind them was the #11 TF Sport entered V12 Vantage of Jon Barnes and Mark Farmer, who at one point this morning had to get their car dug out of the gravel at Paddock Hill bend following a 'miscalculation' on Farmer's part during Free Practice.


The remaining full season entered GT3 of Jonny Adam and Dereck Johnston finished their Qualifying in P7 whilst the remaining GT4 entry of Jan Jonck and Will Phillips finished mid table in P10. The one off entry from Ultimate Speed Racing struggled for pace throughout the day to finish at the rear of the GT3 grid some seconds off the time of the car in front.

Tomorrows two hour race starts 14 14:10hours and should the weather be anything like it has been today it would be a brave person who would predict the podium in either class.

Photo credits - Jacob Ebrey

Thanks to the kind people at Prodrive we will be offering two of these Aston Martin Racing commemorative posters as prizes to two lucky 'winners' from a simple Twitter competition that we shall be setting up in the next few weeks.

Designed to rejoice in the teams GTE Pro class win for the #97 Vantage at Le Mans this year, this Jonny Adam signed poster is truly a special 'money cannot buy' item for any discerning AMR fan.

We will give you all plenty of warning so no need to worry about being away on holiday!!

From the outset of the 2017 Australian GT season we have known that the New South Wales based Miedecke Stone Motorsport team would only be scheduled to compete in their 'local' race of the Australian Endurance Championship at Sydney Motorsport Park.

Twelve months ago the father and son duo won (quite deservedly) the Sydney101 race with their yellow, white and black #95 Aston Martin Racing V12 Vantage GT3 and with the 2017 round just two weeks away we are still awaiting confirmation of the teams entry.

We did see several weeks ago that George Miedecke had suffered a painful looking ankle injury that would at least delay his training programme leading into the race but for the last 4-6 weeks information flow from the team has been somewhat limit.


We are also keen to learn from Miedecke Stone of more news associated with the influx of AMR Vantage GT3 and GT4 platforms into Australia for their blossoming national GT racing calendar. We saw just a few weeks ago of the Australian GT organisers agreeing with the SRO to allow SRO homologated GT4 platforms to race within the main GT events rather than the Trophy races at present.


We are already aware of MSM importing a number of AMR V8 Vantage GT4's into the country as well as increasing the number of AMR V12 Vantage GT3's to five cars so as a Full Partner AMR team, MSM are heavily involved with the promotion of the AMR marque.

We will ave to wait and see what happens…………!!

Photo credits - MSM