Twelve Aston Martin Racing Vantages so far confirmed for SRO Americas visit to Sonoma next weekend

Sunday, April 10, 2022

After our post last Friday concerning the large possible numbers of Aston Martin Racing Vantage race cars competing around the world this coming week, it later transpired that the SRO America trilogy of series did confirm their expected entry lists ahead of their opening round of the 2022 season from Sonoma Raceway in California.

Having had to re-shell and rebuild their AMR Vantage GT3 over the winter after an incident at the penultimate round which prevented them from completing that and the final round at Indianapolis last year, it has been since confirmed that both Frank Gannett and Drew Staveley shall return for a second season of the GT World Challenge America Series this year with their Ian Lacey prepared AMR Vantage.

Competing amongst an expected grid of twenty cars at the opening round, the #12 car of Staveley and Gannett again competes within the Pro-Am class, the most popular this season with fourteen other entries with the rest spread between the Pro and Am classes.

The GT America Series will actually run their second round of their season from Sonoma after having debuted this year from St Petersburg back in late February, an event that came with a race win for the reigning GT4 Champion Jason Bell.

This series entry list for Sonoma presently boasts an entry list of twenty-eight GT3 and GT4 cars with six Aston Martin Vantage GT4’s listed amongst them. From what we understand however, we expect that number of six to grow by at least one by the time formal track proceedings to get underway. Those listed are: -

#2 GMG Racing AMR Vantage GT4 with Jason Bell
#8 Flying Lizard AMR Vantage GT4 with Elias Sabo
#15 Bsport Racing AMR Vantage GT4 with Bryan Putt
#25 Heart of Racing AMR Vantage GT4 with Gary Newell
#50 Chouest Povoledo Racing AMR Vantage GT4 with Ross Chouest
#888 Zelus Motorsport AMR Vantage GT4 with Sean Whalen

This series again runs for the benefit of bronze ranked drivers only for their two, forty-minute solo driver races per meeting.

Then we get into the forty-one-car entry list for the GT4 America Series which this time sees a five car Aston Martin Racing entry amongst this multi-class series and again, all returning customer teams except for the new entry from the Flying Lizard team. Their expected entry list is: -

#2 GMG Racing AMR Vantage GT4 with Jason Bell and Andrew Davis
#8 Flying Lizard AMR Vantage GT4 with Elias Sabo and Andy Lee
#15 Bsport Racing AMR Vantage GT4 with Bryan Putt and Kenton Koch
#25 Heart of Racing AMR Vantage GT4 with Gary Newell and Ian James
#50 Chouest Povoledo Racing AMR Vantage GT4 with Ross Chouest and Aaron Povoledo

With Silver and Am classes also available, all five Aston Martins will compete within the Pro-Am class for the seven-round calendar of double header, hour long races.

Track action gets underway this Thursday with private testing ahead of Official Practice on Friday with Qualifying and Race 1 per series on Saturday and concluding on Sunday with Race 2.

Photo credits – Teams / GT America / GT4 America / GTWCA / CSJ Motorsport