Whilst there wasn’t any last-minute opportunity for any of the five Aston Martin Racing powered teams to secure a class championship with the GT World Challenge Europe Sprint Cup finale at the weekend, there was still time for one last piece of silverware for their efforts.

Down at the Circuit de Catalunya near Barcelona for the final race weekend of the Sprint Cup Series saw the usual three crews from the Comtoyou Racing team as well as the two Walkenhorst Motorsport who had all had one of those seasons where period moments of magnificence and a podium gong along the way just wasn’t enough to put them into any of the four-class championship hunts this time around.

 

Racing purely for pride and next seasons possibilities had Kobe Pauwels and Nicki Thiim togther again one last time within their #007 Pro class car along with Oliver Soderstrom and Arthur Dorison aboard their #21 silver entry as well as both Felice Jelmini and Marcelo Tomasoni in their #11 Comtoyou Racing AMR Vantage GT3 bronze cup entry. They would again be joined by the two silver class entries for both Jamie Day and Matteo Villagomez and Gaspard Simin and Maxime Robin aboard their #34 and #35 cars respectively.

Getting Saturday’s qualifying in just before the monsoon that was to follow as the forty-four cars assembled upon the grid for the first of the two final one hour sprint races but despite the track conditions, everyone enjoyed a miraculously clean opening few laps.

 

Quickly the circuit became flooded in places and that saw a number of cars take a spin or two along the way, including the #11 Aston Martin as the Safety Car was finally called out for a two-car incident at turn 11 after fifteen minutes.

Whilst the race did get back going again, a later off for the #35 Walkenhorst car just before the completion of the obligatory driver change at the halfway point – together with the intensifying rainfall saw the race red flagged for safety before getting back going again after something like a twenty-minute delay.

 

At that restart, the #007 of Thiim was the highest placed Aston Martin and he quickly made good use of the compact running order as he progressed through from P21 to P13 as another Safety Car was called to recover the stricken #35 car after all. Going back to green from that one and with little over six minutes remaining, the #007 had an (unseen) moment on track that dropped them back down to P18 overall- still making them the highest placed AMR powered crew but with the #34 crew of Day and Villagomez just missing out on another class podium in fourth.

Sunday’s much delayed race would be effected of the remainder of Saturday’s race programme being carried over until Sunday morning instead, so their grid was set by the fastest time of each nominated driver from Free Practice 2 – such was the rush to get through the actual racing rather than running qualifying sessions.

 

This time under near clear blue skies and warming sunshine, the circuit was poles apart from the day before as the remaining class championship wins still needed to be determined. Another frenetic start again saw contact into turns 1 to 2 with another Safety Car being the result before going quickly back to green.

With light already fading, Thiim was running within the top ten again overall with Villagomez again running just off the silver podium in fourth as the cars made for pit lane for their final stops of the season. Just as the pit window closed, a brief FCY was shown to allow marshals to recover a stranded car off track at Turn 13 before leaving a twenty-minute dash to the flag.

 

The race and indeed the season finally ended with the #007 finishing as the best placed Aston in P7 overall / P5 in class, but the final gong went to the #34 Walkenhorst crew of Day and Villagomez as they went one better than yesterday to finish the year in Sprint P15 overall and P3 in class.

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It was something of an unfortunate whimper to end the year with as the SRO sanctioned GT3 Revival Series saw out its inaugural race season earlier today from the Circuit de Catalunya near Barcelona, as just over a handful of cars took the chequered flag at the end of the final forty-minute race of the year.

Seeing the early entry lists to this new series swell from the low thirties for the opening round of the at Paul Ricard to nearly fifty cars at the round from the Spa Classic next time around, this weekend’s entry list did mention a respectable eighteen cars for this finale but even some of those didn’t arrive.

 

Within those who did turn up was the Fanta Racing By Code Classic with their former #62 R-Motorsport V12 Aston Martin Racing Vantage GT3 for Pascal Huteau as well as the #16 Britec Motorsport supported #16 V12 AMR Vantage GT3 of Dr Afshin Fatemi.

There was much excitement around the running of race one on Saturday just as an impending rainstorm reached the circuit with the cars already upon the grid, but they did at least get off behind the Safety Car with the #62 Aston leading the way from pole position. Many laps later with doing battle with the #20 Ford GT, a brief interlude was had by all as all served their compulsory stop.

 

Coming out again, however, had witnessed the rain intensify to a point where it was now flooding the circuit and the #20 Ford already in the grave at turn one, the red flag was shown on the grounds of safety. With the rain continuing, that would prove to be the end of all racing at the circuit for the day with the #62 car given the race win on countback.

Race two on Sunday was at least at a circuit filled this time with clear blue skies and warming sunshine but sadly at a cost with only ten of yesterday’s fifteen cars running took the start on Sunday. The #62 car was one such car missing but the #16 car was at least there having missed both qualifying rounds and the first race with technical issues.

Making up for lost ground, Fatemi soon elevated himself up the order to run as high as P4 overall by the start of the pit window. Having made its scheduled stop, all was looking good for the #16 car until about six minutes before the end when Fatemi was pulled to pull off track at turn 2 with an apparent continuation of his technical issues of earlier to another unfortunate DNF to end the year with.

Hopefully, all will have seen just what this series is all about with the possibilities of a diverse grid, driving abilities and a wide range of circuits being visited through the season and just maybe, the grid sizes can be maintained throughout the year in 2027.

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There were emotional scenes to be had from either end of the spectrum as three Aston Martin Racing Vantage GTD’s and one Aston Martin Valkyrie saw out the final round of the IMSA Weathertech Sportscar Championship from its own Petit Le Mans event at the Michelin Raceway Road Atlanta circuit in Georgia yesterday.

Moving into the event, all eyes were upon the #27 Heart of Racing AMR Vantage GTD as Brazilian racer Eduardo Barrichello still stood a mathematical chance of lifting the GTD Drivers Championship at the end although he did have a 126 points deficit to the class leading Mercedes AMG crew of Philip Ellis and Russell Ward to overcome first.

 

Going into Qualifying on Friday, what we hadn’t realised was the team had undertaken a precautionary engine change within the #27 car just ahead of Qualifying as they were concerned about the volume being consumed within the old unit used with all the Free Practice sessions until. Ordinarily, this AMG based power plant within the Vantage GTD has been extremely reliable over the years but that was an informed decision of the own alongside the AMR technicians who are ever present with any Partner team.

 

Whilst that did allow Zacharie Robichon qualifying the car in sixth, issues were noticed even before the race that saw the #27 fail to take the start as apparent electrical issues were investigated and sorted. As the number of laps passed by at an alarming rate, it soon became apparent that the championship title hopes had now turned into a championship position preserving exercise that finally saw Robichon complete just thirty-seven laps to surpass the equally technically affected #96 Turner BMW within the race to hopefully secure P3 within the championship at the end of the ten hours as both Barrichello and third man Tom Gamble would never get to participate within the race.

 

On a lighter note however, the returning #44 Magnus Racing AMR Vantage GTD of John Potter, Spencer Pumpelly and Mario Farnbacher would put on a racing display that would question whether or not this weekend’s race was just their third of a twelve-race season having electively missed all the sprint in favour of most of the endurance rounds. Despite qualifying P18 out of eighteen GTD runners, Potter was soon climbing the class order – albeit aided by the racing demise of both the #27 and #96 cars to complete his minute two and a half hours minimum drive time without incident.

At times in the pit stop sequence – something that was getting more and more fluid as the circuit full course yellow interventions for incidents and then the red flag just after halfway for lightning, the #44 car ran within the top five in class on merit as Farnbacher again showed his worth for anyone paying attention.

 

As the race then went into darkness for the final couple of hours, the #44 Magnus Racing entry would come through to post a P5 in class finish at the end of this ten-hour race to add to their P2 finish in class at the opening round of the season at the Rolex 24 from Daytona.

It was a similar experience for the #23 Heart of Racing Aston Martin Valkyrie GTP of Ross Gunn, Roman de Angelis and Alex Riberas as they battled to improve upon their best position within the series so far this season than their P5 class finish at Road America back in August.

 

Qualifying the car P8 in class, Gunn again took the elongated opening stints before passing the car through to Riberas and De Angelis as the hours went by. The #23 was also noted under investigation for a couple of incidents during the daylight hours of the race but appeared to have got away with just warnings at the time with these incidents not being as severe as some happening around the track at the time and especially when the rainstorm returned with its latter lightning risk intervention.

Despite cycling up and down the class order according to individual cars strategy on track and even to lead the race outright for a time going into darkness, the #23 car would eventually drop back slightly to complete the remaining hours at the tail end of the top five to equal their best result of the season.

 

That result sees Gunn and De Angelis finish the season P14 within the GTP class on 2242 points within the overall championship making for a significant improvement on their points-based performances of last year when the Valkyrie was then, still in its infancy.

The result of the weekend for Aston Martin Racing came at the end when the #68 Car Blanche AMR Vantage GTD Pro entry of Valentin Hasse-Clot, Marco Sorensen and new third man Mattia Drudi secured their best ever result within the IMSA series so far as they took a remarkable class win.

 

With the team and their YRB Racing backers having taken over what was then the Van Der Steur Racing team mid-season, the new look team started their new adventure within GTD before sticking one metaphorical toe into the GTD Pro class before committing to the latter for the final couple of rounds of the season.

With one AMR factory driver (Hasse-Clot) joining forces with another (Sorensen) from the sprint round at VIR, the writing was already upon the wall as to the teams intent moving forward as both drivers were soon confirmed as the first crew to be listed in class ahead of next season.

 

Drudi’s inclusion for this round also cemented that racing possibility at Petit Le Mans as the Italian qualified the car second in class and for the crew then to cycle through the hours never short of being within the top five for much of it. Keeping themselves importantly out of trouble, that pace and consistency was rewarded at the end with the class win.

Results at the end of the season also confirmed the retention of P3 within the GTD Drivers Championship for Barrichello with him and co-driver Gamble also securing third within the GTD Endurance Cup just two points off the title win.

 

It’s been another great IMSA season and it all starts again in mid-December with the Balance of Performance tests at Daytona – all ahead of the Roar before the 24 and the Rolex 24 later in January 2027.

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Like IMSA did last weekend, the SRO America race organisation will be bringing their trilogy of GT based series to their seasonal conclusion next weekend as the GT World Challenge America, GT4 America and GT America take to trip to the Indianapolis Motor Speedway.

Round seven of seven for each series this time around, we again just see the near full season #71 Aston Martin Racing Vantage GT3 from the Rebel Rock Racing team take to the track as part of a twenty-eight-car entry for what will again be a race within a race event around the infield circuit of the motor speedway.

 

Whilst there will still be the traditional three-hour final race of the GT World Challenge Series being run at IMS, most if not all of the GT3 powered running will also be competing within what will also be the fifth and final round of the Intercontinental GT Challenge Series with their now usual eight-hour race.

The issued entry list shows three cars not listed with IGTC listed against them – that includes the #71 Rebel Rock crew which has been confirmed as being Frank DePew and Robin Liddell as usual alongside their third man Andrew Davis for what could be just a three-hour race for them but with three drivers this time around.

 

Moving into the GT4 classes and whilst we had a complete mix of Aston Martin Racing Vantage GT4 powered entries throughout the year within both GT America and GT4 America, we sadly see no further such entries within the seventeen multi-class strong entry for that final two races of the year.

The only one that we do have will be within the GT4 America Series two final races of the year with the CSM Motorsport returning to the family of series with their #007 Vantage GT4 with a combination of their 2026 IMSA Michelin Pilot Challenge Series runners Ayrton Houk and Ismaeel Ellahi.

 

We also do not see the VPX Motorsport team and their Vantage GT4 after one of their young guns totalled their new GT4 racer last time out in their first ever GT4 race at Barber Motorsport Park.

Whilst the main eight-hour race is being run on Saturday, the other GT races will be being run either side of that main race across both Saturday and Sunday.

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Forty-seven cars and crews of the ACO rules Michelin Le Mans Cup Series will soon be making that long road trip down to southern Portugal in time for next weekend’s sixth and final round of the season with one Aston Martin Racing powered team with a class title to confirm by the end of that two-hour race.

As races at Barcelona, Paul Ricard, Le Mans, Spa Francorchamps and most recently at Silverstone, the #10 Racing Spirit of Leman AMR Vantage GT3 of Philipp Sager still heads the GT3 class going into this final round after something of a disaster last time out which has now cut his championship lead to just five points.

 

Supported again this season by Valentin Hasse-Clot for all rounds bar Spa (for which the young Frenchman was pre-occupied with his IMSA commitments for which Marius Fossard stepped up the plate), the #10 crew secured three out of three podium finishes out of the first three races before finishing fourth in race five to muster a healthy lead going into the penultimate round of the season last time out.

Silverstone is clearly a circuit that the Austrian just does not like as he also suffered from multiple on track penalties that eventually saw him and Hasse-clot finish with just two points whilst their nearest rival clawed back sixteen more points to cut their deficit to just five.

 

The #91 Ecurie Ecosse Blackthorn AMR Vantage GT3 of Claude Bovet and Tom Canning also feature again within the entry list as does the #11 Code Racing Development AMR but with another driver pairing.

Last time out on their home track of Silverstone, the #91 Blackthorn car secured their best qualifying to date with a second row start in class before returning a P7 finish for their efforts – only their second points scoring finish of the year unfortunately.

 

For the #11 Code Racing Developments entry, it was again class pole position at Silverstone (their third of the season so far) for their then crew of George King and Stephane Lemeret but that has again been changed for this last event. The team now list American registered racers Antoine Comeau and Nicky Hays within the car. Both drivers have Lamborghini Super Trofeo racing experience with Hays also competing within this year’s IMSA Michelin Pilot Challenge Series with Randon Vandals.

Track action for this series will begin on Wednesday with private testing before going through two Free Practice and bronze driver tests before qualifying on Friday before the two-hour race is waved off at 09:30hrs local on Saturday.

 

Sunday will also see the ELMS and LMC rookie tests take place at the circuit before the annual awards ceremony later in the evening.

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It’s now that sad time of year when we see many race series and championships come to their natural conclusion with both the ACO rules European Le Mans Series and Michelin Le Mans Cup Series no different as they both travel down to Portugal for their finals races of the year.

Round six of their 2026 seasons sees a forty-four car, multi-class grid travel down to the Autodromo Do Algarve near Portimao for their final four-hour race alongside the LMP3/GT3 powered grid of the Le Mans Cup Series who will see off their final two hour race with their forty-seven strong grid.

 

As far as Aston Martin Racing powered teams are concerned, the #59 Racing Spirit of Leman AMR Vantage LMGT3 has again been the sole full season representative for the British marque within the series this season but even that hasn’t come easy for the team with multiple driver changes forced upon them.

Starting the year with a driver crew line up of Clement Mateu, Valentin Hasse-Clot and Marius Fossard – all went ‘well’ as far as racing was concerned whilst the results may not have been preferable until the third round of the season from Imola.

 

After that, Mateu stepped away from the team and series citing family reasons (always a very valid point) but hoping to be back as and when situations changed and for the next round of the season from Spa Francorchamps, his and Hasse-Clots (who was committed to IMSA that weekend) places within the team-were taken up by both Anthony McIntosh and Parker Thompson but as just a one-off entry.

Next time and last time out at Silverstone, the crew was back to Fossard and Hasse-clot but this time with fellow countryman Francois Heriau joining the #59 car for what turned out to be another ‘difficult’ round to the season.

 

However, that has all gone full circle now as Mateu has confirmed his immediate return to the car and team in time for this seasonal finale from Portimao that features both a maximum grid entry size within a series that still has all of its available class championship titles up for grabs. The #59 crew of whatever combination is already massively out of championship contention this season so this race will be all about pride and just what come into play for them all next season.

Track action begins on Thursday with the first of two Free Practice and bronze driver sessions over that day and the next before class qualifying on Friday before the final race is waved off at 14:30hrs local on Saturday.

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Qualifying ahead of tomorrow’s final round of the IMSA Wethertech Sportscar Championship from Michelin raceway Road Atlanta is also in the bag for the four Aston Martin powered crews entered as the season rounds off at its traditional Petit Le Mans venue.

For the 2026 season, we still have the #27 Heart of Racing Aston Martin Racing Vantage GTD of Eduardo Barrichello needing to overcome and surpass the 126 points deficit within his GTD class if he is to lift that class title at the end of tomorrows ten-hour marathon as both Tom Gamble and Zacharie Robichon assist the young Brazilian to that end.

 

With this event also being the round of the parallel Endurance Cup season, that opened up the qualifying role from the lowest graded driver to one of choice where Robichon this time went about looking for both grid position and the final qualifying points of the season. However, he had to make do with a P6 finish after the session was red flagged due to two other cars coming together, leaving one in the gravel going into the downhill turn 10.

That also meant that the #44 Magnus Racing AMR Vantage GTD of John Potter, Spencer Pumpelly and Mario Farnbacher would be starting from the rear of the pack P18 in class after bronze ranked driver Potter elected to qualify his car.

 

Next up was the GTD Pro class with AMR being represented again by the #68 Car Blanche Vantage GTD Valentin Hasse-Clot, Marco Sorensen and with Mattia Drudi completing the qualifying honours for the squad who have already been confirmed as full season entrants for next year.

Some awesome sequence of laps from the Italian will see the #68 car start tomorrows race from P2 on the grid – their best position to date this season within either their GTD or GTD class entries.

 

Finally, it was the turn of the GTP class runners with Ross Gunn again on Qualifying duty with the #23 Aston Martin Valkyrie that he will share with both season regular Roman De Angelis alongside third man in Alex Riberas.

Running the same preparatory programme in the session as most others, Gunn would soon post some progressive laps times that would see him comfortably placed within the midst of the eleven strong class but as his tyres faded, the #23 would still come away with another respectable P8 start to tomorrows race where their starting position will have absolutely no relevance to where they eventually finish in the dark of night tomorrow.

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Whilst an Aston Martin Racing powered crew missed out upon the overall GS Drivers Championship within the final round of the IMSA Michelin Pilot Challenge Series from the Michelin Raceway Road Atlanta earlier today, one did claim their maiden race win to make amends for what has been a tough first season for them.

Six AMR Vantage GT4 powered crews took the start to today’s final two-hour race of the season with just the #26 Heart of Racing car of Hannah’s Grisham and Greenemeir anyway near the sharp end of the battle but still sadly (we later learn) to be already out of championship contention even before the race had started.

 

Other cars and crews had been within a similar situation until the penultimate race of the year from Indianapolis Motor Speedway when an early collision with spun car saw the #66 Oore Motorsport (Car Blanche) AMR of Allen Patten and Trenton Estep taken out of the overall equation with race ending damage there. For the remaining four entries, this race was all about going out upon something of a high whilst also preparing for next year will still many seats within these teams as yet unconfirmed.

Earlier qualifying had seen the #66 Oore car secure the lead Aston in fourth but only just ahead of the #26 Heart of Racing and the #2 CSM Motorsport car of Zach Veach and Morgan Burkhard in fifth and sixth respectively. The #4 Medusa Motorsport AMR of Hunter Yeany and Athan Sterling were next quickest, rounding off the top ten with the #3 CSM car of Ayrton Houk and Ismaeel Ellahi were next quickest P19 in class and the #14 Circle H AMR of Thomas Merrill and Martin Sarukhanyan deputising for a absent David Hampton down in P23 within the GS class set of thirty one cars.

 

Another typically frenetic start saw the #66 car soon lose its track position from their good start after paying too much attention to his mirrors than where they were going to understeer off track and drop at least eight places as a result, something that lifted the #26 car of Greenemeir up to third and the #2 car of Veach into fifth whilst the other three were still somewhere relative to where they had started.

The race for the #2 car would soon go south however, as they were forced to pit after just half an hour as part of their rear defuser was noted to be dragging along the track – whilst they will refuel and re-shod the car, that strategy would prove to be wildly optimistic being two laps down to the leaders already.

 

Forty minutes in and that was the completion of the minimum drive time for whoever wanted that to apply to with the #14, #4 and #66 cars the first to do so. For the #66 car, their race would effectively end at that first stop as Trenton Estep promptly had two incidences of contact with other cars for which he earned himself a drive through penalty for each as the first Full Course Yellow came just ahead of the first hour for debris on track.

That would be another protracted affair as circuit clean-up and wave around was then undertaken – something that took another ten minutes off the race lock for those looking to fuel save till the end. During that caution, we also had the extra-ordinary scenes of having the track service trucks actually blocking the circuit at turn seven and preventing the cars from passing on what was the start of the wave around. One big race car traffic jam was the result as nobody wanted to inadvertently overtake another car under yellows.

 

By the team things went back to green, most of the driver changes had been completed with almost exactly an hour left in the season as the #26 car of Grisham had lost ground during their stop to come out fifth but saw the #14 car of now Merrills behind the wheel coming through strong in P12 at the restart. The #2 cars race would go from bad to worse as they completed their driver change under green flag running to drop even further back as Grisham put in some very determined laps.

For a time, the #26 car assumed the lead of the race and those GS cars on a two stop strategy made their final stops for fuel and maybe tyre – something that Grisham would do just a few laps later to emerge within the then multicar battle for what would eventually turn out to the battle for the lead. The #4 Medusa AMR was one of those way out front at the time, but they still owed their final stop of the afternoon which would obviously drop them down the order again.

 

With the pole setting Toyota then dropping out with damage, Grisham was fortunate not to incur damage of her own as she battled Ford Mustang after Ford Mustang for position, with the #14 Circle H AMR quietly climbing the order all the time. Trouble for Grisham would come with half an hour left to go as she suddenly slowed under the turn ten bridge (unseen for the reason why) buy enough to drop down to tenth whilst the Medusa crew would again ruin their days work with another sloppy final stop that saw Yeany pull away with the refuelling hose still attached. Nobody hurt luckily but they would be coming down pit lane again soon enough.

As the GS Championship opened up with the retirement of the #44 McLaren, that allowed Merrills up to P4 – somewhere he was obviously fast enough down the straights to start picking off the final cars ahead to eventually lead with just ten minutes remaining. The race was then effectively cut three minutes short after a GS/TCR car contact going onto the start straight saw both cars damage and stopped on track forcing the race to be neutralised with not enough time to get going for the Circle H Aston Martin Racing crew to take their maiden Michelin Pilot Challenge race win at Michelin Raceway Road Atlanta. An awesome achievement.

 

The #26 Heart of Racing crew would eventually finish a plucky sixth overall with the #2 CSM a surprising P8 in class. Their sister #3 car was next in P16, the #66 Oore crew finished P20 with the Medusa crew rounding things off for the year in P23.

Just another box standard IMSA Michelin Pilot Challenge Series season again really!!

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Good news for the new season came early today as the Asian Le Mans Series confirmed their provisional entry list ahead of their heavy reconfigured 2026-27 plans with an impressive capacity forty-seven car strong, multi-classed entry.

Due to the ongoing geo-political situation within the Middle East at the moment, the Asian Le Mans Series made a swift decision to relocate its traditional cross winter season from their more traditional homes of Dubai and Abu Dhabi to circuits within southern Europe in order to provide some kind of surety to their partners that their commitment to the new season will be met with some racing at the end of the day.

 

As a result, this year’s season will see their six four-hour races moved to the Circuit Paul Ricard in southern France in mid-November before moving onto both Circuito De Jerez in mid-January before rounding off the season at the Autodromo Internacional do Algarve just a month later.

The news confirmed today states the maximum grid size that all three circuits can routinely accommodate as well as some expectation with the names behind the team entries.

 

As far as Aston Martin Racing powered teams were concerned, the two Vantage GT3 entries of the 2025-26 season has this time morphed into four such cars as the Heart of Racing has two GT3 places confirmed alongside one apiece for the (renamed) Car Blanche by RSL (Racing Spirit of Leman) team and the returning Ecurie Ecosse by Blackthorn AMR team.

This news went onto confirm that Ian James and Gray Newell would be associated with each of the Heart of Racings #26 and #27 car entries as well as Arnold Robin, Jonny Edgar and Valentin Hasse-Clot being confirmed already within the #68 Car Blanche entry. Last season, the Blackthorn car was crewed last year by Giacomo Petrobelli, Jonny Adam and Kobe Pauwels but this time Adam’s name is not there within the #70 entry list for this year but the other two are.

 

The total grid will be made up of two new for 26-27 Hypercar entries alongside sixteen LPM2 cars with the rest of the field being made up from the GT3 class.

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The new for 2026 SRO GT3 Revival Series will be another European based series sadly coming to an end this weekend as they thrash out their final two races of the year at the Circuit de Catalunya near Barcelona, Spain.

Designed specifically for those who continue to own the more venerable examples of SRO GT3 class of race car, now well out of homologation for the GT3 based series of today where the series has never really struggled for a client base over this first season although numbers have fluctuated as you would expect.

 

This weekend’s finale in Spain will see another eighteen-car strong entry for these two final fifty-minute races with now just one of the three available class championship titles still up for grabs.

Have seen more within the earlier rounds, Barcelona will see just two V12 Aston Martin Racing Vantage GT3’s take part – one from the Britec Motorsport team again as German based Doctor Afschin Fatemi races (what’s expected to be) his Spiderman liveried Vantage again with the former R-Motorsport Vantage GT3 of Franz Wunderlich and Pascal Huteau again behind the wheel of the #62 Fanta Racing Legend by Code Classic entry.

 

 

Within the Gen 2 Am Drivers Championship, Heiko Neumann will run almost unopposed this weekend as the former championship leading Team TRG Aston Martin Racing car of Jonathon Mitchell is again not in attendance. Huteau/Wunderlich and Fatemi presently stand P7 and P8 in class but already too far away to make any difference even if one or the other won both races.

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