AMR Vantage GT3 and GT4 crews head the grids across Europe this weekend

Sunday, September 29, 2024

It’s the midst of another busy racing weekend for many an Aston Martin Racing powered team across Europe as eighteen AMR Vantage GT3 or Vantage GT4 crews do battle within six series previously covered this week.

An interesting point came about yesterday as these crews populated the top three positions (in class or overall) within all bar one event with the Qualifying sessions run up until the end of play yesterday.

Earlier, we saw inaugural class podium positions for the #59 Racing Spirit of Leman AMR Vantage LMGT3 of Derek DeBoer (shared with Valentin Hasse-Clot and Casper Stevenson with the #97 Grid Motorsport with TF Sport AMR of Martin Berry (with Lorcan Hanafin and Jonny Adam) claim the third spot in class ahead of their four hour European Le Mans Series race from Mugello later today.

That was added to at the same event as the debuting #90 Blackthorn AMR Vantage GT3 of James Swift (with Rob Kaiser) do likewise with a front row start for yesterday’s supporting Michelin Le Mans Cup Series race at Mugello.

Moving back to the UK, and there was a triple achievement to this fact as the new look for this round Beechdean AMR Vantage GT3 car of Andrew Howard and Tom Wood secured a Silver-AM P2 starting position at Brands Hatch whilst the two GT4 Championship protagonists from the Forsetti Motorsport team both claimed a class P3 starting position ahead of this afternoons finale in the British GT Championship.

Back into Europe and it was a first pole position qualifying results for the #55 Zakspeed ESM Vantage GT4 for Phillip Gogollok and Jan Marschalkowski within the ADAC GT4 Germany visit to the Red Bull Ring whilst four varying Racar Motorsport and Mirage Racing AMR Vantage GT4 crews enjoyed similar success within yesterday’s two Qualifying rounds for this weekend’s Iberian Supercar Series visit to Valencia. The only exception to this was for the two Walkenhorst cars running within the ADAC GT Masters Series at the venue too.

Obviously, some of these races have now been run, the results of which will be covered later, by todays main point of interest remains that of the British GT Champiosnhip where the two Forsetti crews of Mikey Porter/Jamie Day and Marc Warren/Will Orton remain very much within further class Championship contention going into this afternoon’s final two-hour race of the season.