Australian based Miedecke Motorsport are taking their eldest Aston Martin Racing V12 Vantage GT3 car for a thrash this weekend in their local State Championship as the team keep working on an entry into the local round of the Australian GT Championship later next month.

Father and son duo, Andrew and George Miedecke are out in their chassis #11 car (the one that we believe is still up for sale) at the event at their local Sydney Motorsport Park in the latest round of the New South Wales Motor racing Championships - entered int the Production Sports Class. SMP is where the duo also took an overall race win at the corresponding round of the Australian GT Championship two years ago.

A post shared from George M earlier today confirmed that he had secured pole ready for race one and his dad was then due out in Qualifying for race 2.

Two of Aston Martin Racing's finest finally return to what is a very hot and sunny Snetterton race track for the fourth round of the GT Cup championship this weekend.

We say finally, as Whitebridge AMR had the misfortune of 'loosing' one of their available V8 Vantage GT4's in a crash whilst testing for another series and have since then been competing in a Team Hard Ginetta for the last two rounds, which at least had kept their class championship title hopes alive.

Whitebridge AMR drivers Chris Murphy and local lad Adam Hatfield return with the teams latest AMR acquisition that the they ran at the Aston Martin Racing Festival at Le Mans earlier this month as well as the last round of the Britcar Championship last weekend. The more observant of you will see that their #72 car is indeed a former Generation AMR SuperRacing car that Murphy purchased from James Holder after the earlier accident, a purchase that allowed the car to win its class at the Le Mans Festival!

The Provisional entry list for this weekends resumption of the Blancpain GT Asia Series has confirmed something that we were told at Le Mans the other weekend in that it will be doubtful that we shall be seeing the colourful #69 CMRT Eurasia Aston Martin Racing V12 Vantage GT3 again this season.

Last years Am Driver Champion Jame Cai is understood to have had 'a change of personal circumstance' that will see both him and co -champion Kenneth Lim electively take a 'back seat' having already missed out on the start of the 2018 championship with replacement drivers Adrian D'Silva and Sangwhi Rick Yoon.

Photo credit - BES 

Last weekend's round of motorsport across Europe produced another mixed bag of results for #TeamAMR with some rekindling previous previous successes whilst others hit problems that put pay to all their hard work.

Avia Racing returned to the Nordschliefe with their distinctly liveried V8 Vantage GT4 for the third round of the VLN having already secured both a podium and a DNF in the opening rounds but having sat out the prestigious ADAC Zurich N24 last month.

At the end of Saturday's three hours the teams #188 entry with drivers Wolfgang Weber, Thomas Krebs and Erik Johansson claimed another SP10 class podium finishing in P2 just two minutes behind the class winning BMW M3.


Meanwhile up at Oulton Park, both Whitebridge AMR and EDF Motorsport returned for the third round of the Britcar Endurance Championship having both contested the AMR Festival at Le Mans the weekend before.

For Mal Sandford and Ben Seyfried combo in the #10 car, their race day was relatively short-lived as just twelve laps into Race 1 Seyfried hit one of the circuit's 'sausage kerbs' that launched the air high into the air before coming down seriously damaging the front suspension, sub frame, steering and engine mounts causing not only a red flag but the end of their racing day. Sounds like the EDF Motorsport guys will have a fair bit of work to do there!


Chris Murphy meanwhile returned with a solo car effort for this round in the only car in the S3 GT4 class with his #72 Vantage GT4 and two decent overall finishes (in both races) allowed him to accumulate enough points to sit just behind team mate Barry McMahon (who always wasn't going to compete at this meeting rather than because his Whitebridge car was damaged at Le Mans) in the Championship before it moves on to the next round at Donington Park next month.

Photo credit - VLN / EDF Motorsport 

Teenage American racer, Aurora Straus will be rejoining the Automatic Racing team in their Aston Martin Racing V8 Vantage GT4 for the next round of the Continental Tyre Sports Car Challenge from Watkins Glen this weekend.

Having already made a lasting impression with the team the first time they all raced together at the opening round of the CTSCC at the Daytona 24 event earlier this year, Straus has been methodically improving her race craft in a BMW M3 that she races in the Pirelli World Challenge Series in the States.


With regular driver Stephen Phillips having been incapacitated in an accident during Qualifying at the Aston Martin Racing Festival from Le Mans earlier this month, Straus has a received a late 'call up' to partner Al Carter in the teams #99 car for this weekend's events (maybe longer?).

We of course wish her all the best as well as Stephen Phillips who, we believe is returning home today after stays in hospitals in both France and England after his Thursday evening accident at Le Mans.

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Two other racing events occupy the attention of four more Aston Martin Racing Customer Teams across Europe as the GT4 European Series resumes in Misano and well as the Dunlop Britcar Endurance Championship at Oulton Park.

All teams featuring in these two events have of course just taken part in last weekend's Aston Martin Racing Festival from Le Mans where the forty five minute race with practice and qualifying sessions proving to be quite destructive for some.

Starting at the somewhat wet Misano circuit located along the Adriatic coastline of eastern Italy, both Academy Motorsport and Street Art Racing line up their single AMR V8 Vantage GT4 apiece having had the Worcestershire based team confirm to us the parting of company with driver (Immanuel Vinke) after just the opening round in Zolder back in April.


The AMR Festival at Le Mans also proved itself to be more than a headache for team boss Matt Nichol-Jones after having had a GT4 car destroyed in an accident in Qualifying and then having another car - the Fiona James' solo entry retire from the main race after just a couple of laps with an issue with the front right corner.

With still possibly two other cars available to him within the team transporter that came across to Italy straight straight after Le Mans that should no longer be an issue for the James/Nichol-Jones pairing. Despite todays rainstorms looming, some quick early laps for Nichol-Jones left their car in P9 out of the 44 car entry in FP1 before FP2 became a complete washout!


Having thoroughly enjoyed his first solo racing experience of the Circuit de La Sarthe with a P16 in class, Australian Mal Sandford rejoins his normal Britcar driving companion Ben Seyfried with their EDF Motorsport prepared GT4 in Cheshire alongside Whitebridge AMR's Chris Murphy.

Not quite as fortunate as some, Murphy also suffered a significant frontal impact with the tyre wall at Le Mans in the car which he was sharing with fellow Britcar entry Barry McMahon for the event, leaving the car with serious front left corner damage - Murphy himself got out unaided and was otherwise OK but his car was missing a wheel!

CORRECTION - We have been told that Barry McMahon was at the wheel at the time of the crash at Le Mans - and NOT Chris Murphy.

We have also found out that Murphy has indeed bought the spare Generation AMR from James Holder as a replacement for the one that got written off earlier this year and that Murphy will be racing this car in Britcar.


Seeing that the team had already lost one of their GT4's to a testing crash before Le Mans and that they had used (borrowed or bought we don't know) one of the Generation AMR SuperRacing cars for another driver in the AMR Festival, we are presently unsure which car Murphy will be driving tomorrow? All we can see is that McMahon is not entered into the event at Oulton Park.

Britcar's two races take place on Saturday only whilst the GT4 European Series have an hour race over both Saturday and Sunday and these are both streamed live via the series website.

Photo credit - Social media (#15 car) / EDF Motorsport

Just a single Aston Martin Racing car will be competing this weekend as the 2018 VLN series resumes at the Nordschleife with the VLN3 - ADAC H&R Cup.

Avia Racing's #188 V8 Vantage GT4 returns to the circuit having skipped last months ADAC Zurich 24H showcase event and having experienced a very 'hit and miss' start to the VLN series with a podium and a DNF in the SP10 class and will be driven by its usual driver line up of Wolfgang Weber, Thomas Krebs and Erik Johansson.

The customer entries normally lodged from the AMR Performance Centre are presumably having a break after their cars attending last weekends AMR Festival at Le Mans.

Photo credit - Avia Racing

Team BRIT is proudly celebrating after its first race on the Le Mans circuit in the Aston Martin Le Mans Festival at the weekend.

The all-British team, consisting of disabled drivers, many of whom are injured military veterans, competed in the 45-minute support race on Saturday 16th June, held just prior to the annual endurance race. This made motorsport history, making them first all-disabled team to race on the La Sarthe circuit – a record they hope to gain in the Le Mans 24 hour.

Military veterans Warren McKinlay and Jamie Falvey drove as part of the two-man team, racing in the team’s Aston Martin V8 Vantage in only their second GT4 race to date.

The team lined up against 37 other teams on the start grid, with 24 cars in their GT4 class. They finished in a respectable 9th place, beating a number of high profile drivers including former F1 champion Martin Brundle and his team mate Chris Hoy. Warren also posted a faster ‘fastest lap’ than Martin Brundle and GT3 champion Andrew Howard.

Here's just a few of the shots that we took of the third running of the Aston Martin Racing Festival that took place at  the Circuit de La Sarthe at Le Mans last weekend.