With the GT3 only series within the SRO America trilogy of series then comes both the mixed class grids of the GT America Series as well as the those within the GT4 America Series as both also kick off their 2025 campaigns this weekend at Sonoma.

The seventeen cars entered within the mixed GT3(SRO3) and GT4 class of the GT America Series this year sees one returnee and one all new entry as many of those Aston Martin Racing powered team and driver names of previous years have now onto racing pastures news.

 

SRO America kicks off its 2025 campaign with its usual trilogy of GT based series around the undulating circuit of Sonoma Raceway in California this weekend with over sixty-seven cars due to over within the GT World Challenge America, GT4 America and GT America Series.

Amongst that healthy entry will again be a mix of Aston Martin Racing Vantage GT3 and GT4 machinery but not necessarily in the format that we will have become to seeing over previous seasons.

 

Amongst another healthy bunch of thirty-one total runners, it was again those from within the Racar Motorsport and Araujo Competicao who provided most of these but new AMR convertee teams in NGT Motorsport and Gianfranco Motorsport teams were also in attendance.

Whilst the day did start with rough weather conditions at the Portuguese circuit, the sun did eventually shine down on the grid, which is not confirmed at the point in time beyond that of the two Araujo Competicao and Gianfranco Motorsport crews already confirmed by the teams.

 

It was an early disappointing end to the opening round of the 24H Series European Series from Mugello for the E2P Racing Aston Martin Racing Vantage GT3 Evo crew after an uncharacteristic engine issue sidelined the team within the opening half to that race.

Having swapped from the Porsche to the Aston Martin chassis at the end of last season, the team had embarked upon a serious programme of pre-season testing with their new car and crew (with the additional racing input from AMR factory driver David Pittard) placing the #90 entry on a positive footing as the European series ventured to Italy for its opening twelve-hour round.

 

The Nurburgring Langstrecken Serie also started off this weekend from almost where it left off last season with another busy and action-packed round at the infamous Nurburgring Nordschleife circuit.

This time a four-hour affair for the ADAC Westfalenfahrt NLS1race, one hundred and eighteen cars and crews participated over the whole multitude of GT to tin top classes available with three more notable Aston Martin Racing powered entries amongst them.

 

The opening round of the Super Taikyu Series became something of a multi-tonal event for the D’Station Racing team after an earlier incident changed their intended colour scheme.

Returning to the second tier of domestic GT racing in Japan with one of the Aston Martin Racing Vantage GT3 Evo’s, the #777 Satoshi Hoshino, Tomonobu Fujii and (substitute driver) Yuta Kamimura had intended to start the year with an all-new red livery however, an incident during Qualifying saw the need for need panels which were of the more familiar green colour scheme.

Just a week ahead of their opening round to the season, the Feathers Motorsport team have just confirmed a slight change in their driver line up for their return to the GT Cup Championship.

Originally releasing that both James Guess and Tom Canning would reunite behind the wheel of the Aston Martin Racing Vantage GT4 after their year’s sabbatical, last night’s news say that Guess would now be stepping ahead as he looks towards further new racing challenges this season, allowing sixteen year Base Performance Simulators Academy driver Archie Clark his racing opportunity.

“I am so excited to be making my GT Cup debut with FMS. I’m very grateful to the team for the opportunity and to James for stepping aside and allowing me to race the Aston Martin. FMS partner Base Performance Simulators has supported my career for a long time and it’s great to be able to have a chance to repay its faith in me, hopefully with some more podiums and wins, in 2025!”

The season kicks off at Donnington Park next weekend.

Source material – Feathers MS

 

Red is the new green for the D’Station Racing Aston Martin Racing powered team as they embark upon their opening race weekend of the new season with a change in livery colour to mark their return to the Japanese Super Taikyu Series.

Having already completed the official test weekend at the circuit back in early March, the D’Station Racing team are back at Motegi for the season’s opening four-hour race with one of the new AMR Vantage GT3 Evo’s.

One hundred and eighteen cars will grace the grid for this weekend’s opening round of the 2025 Nurburgring Langstrecken Serie with three Aston Martin Racing powered teams complimenting that entry between the GT3 and GT4 classes.

Within the temporary absence of an AMR Vantage GT3 from the locally based Prosport Racing team, the Walkenhorst Motorsport team lead the way with a new Vantage GT3 Evo Pro-Am entry for both team boss Henry Walkenhorst and AMR’s latest factory roster driver and long term team driver Christian Krognes aboard the #36 car.

Despite not having their older Vantage GT3 within the series until its third round, the Christophe Esser lead team will, like previous announcements have already said, two Vantage GT4 entries within both the SP10 class for its #175 GT4 entry for Jorge Viebahn and Yannik Himmels with Michel Albers as well as their #140 Vantage GT8R entry for Guido and Maxime Dumarey (and not Alex Hommerson as previously advised).

This weekend’s opener around the infamous Green Hell Nordschleife will be a four-hour affair IF weather conditions around the circuit allow it of course!

Photo credits – Teams / social media

 

Seems like daily Aston Martin Racing powered related news at the moment more team news emanating from around the world again today.

Starting with something that’s completely new for 2025 sees the SRO run their opening race weekend of their four round GT Cup Series as a support race for the F1 Grand Prix’s visit to Shanghai in China this weekend.

Their entry list was published earlier today which has obviously attracted huge interest from within the Chinese GT4 market with a thirty-three-car entry – including the one new AMR Vantage GT4 Evo that we know to be within the country.

 

The European based racing series are slowly waking up from their post season slumber with several teams/series kicking off their 2025 campaigns.

One such series is the Creventic 24H Series who start off their quintet of European based events with their first round of that series this weekend from Mugello in Italy and its mere twelve-hour campaign.

The Heart of Racing team will be on something like cloud nine at the moment having not just secured another podium finish for their Aston Martin Racing Vantage GTD last night but also secured the best performance and result so far for their all-new Aston Martin Valkyrie GTP.

Competing at the second round of the IMSA Weathertech Sportscar Championship at the Mobil 1 Twelve Hours of Sebring, their two entries and that of the Van Der Steur AMR team helped showcase the best that endurance racing has to offer these days amongst a fifty-six muti-classed entry around one of the most challenging circuits in the world.

 

The Aston Martin Vantage recorded its fourth GT podium finish in the Mobil 1 12 Hours of Sebring following a brilliant fightback by The Heart of Racing in the final hours of one of global motorsport’s most gruelling events.

Third place in the GTD class for 2021 IMSA GTD title winner and 2023 European Le Mans Series GTE champion Zacharie Robichon, Aston Martin THOR team WEC Valkyrie driver Tom Gamble and FIA WEC LMGT3 podium finisher Casper Stevenson – marked the second podium finish in a row for the team. The trio also finished third in the season opening Rolex 24 at Daytona in January, sharing the car on that occasion with Aston Martin works driver Mattia Drudi.