GT4 Championship honours still to be won for two AMR crews as British GT 2024 concludes this weekend at Brands

Monday, September 23, 2024

Today’s provisional entry list shows a somewhat disappointingly slimmer version of the Aston Martin Racing powered entry into this weekend’s finale from Brands Hatch than usual as two crews are still actively involved within the championship deciding process.

Whilst all the championship aspirations still lie within the GT4 class with the two Forsetti Motorsport entries, todays provisional list confirms the omission of both Blackthorn AMR Vantage GT3 entries as they will be busy down in Mugello at the latest round of the ACO rules Michelin Le Mans Cup Series and that there has been a driver change within the now sole AMR Vantage GT3 from the Beechdean team.

After their Silver-Am class podium last time out, Jessica Hawkins is apparently unavailable for this final round of the season so her place has been given to former Vantage GT4 British GT and ADAC GT4 Germany racer Tom Wood for his GT3 racing debut.

Only recently did Wood conduct his first shakedown test of the new Aston Martin Racing Vantage GT3 with the Walkenhorst Motorsport team prior to their GT Masters event at Spa Francorchamps where he was obviously impressionable enough to get this opportunity with the multiple British GT Champions this weekend.

That being said, all eyes will be upon the #7 and #47 Forsetti AMR Vantage GT4 cars of Mikey Porter/Jamie Day and Marc Warren/Will Orton respectively as both crews remain competitively placed at the head of both Silver and Pro-Am classes as well as the overall GT4 Drivers Championship table going into this final race this weekend.

Already having secured the GT4 Team’s Championship at the first time of asking, Sunday’s two-hour finale around the full Grand Prix loop will become a literal ‘winner takes all’ for the victors in class such as the close points margins going into this round after Donington Park last time out.

In fact, Donington was a total disaster for the #47 crew after repeated contact for them in the opening stages saw them eventually finish laps down to their peers whilst the #7 crew was at least able to secure an eventual P3 in class for their efforts.

Within the Silver class battle the #7 car retains a fifteen-point lead and the #47 crew retain slender six and a half point lead in Pro-Am whilst within the overall GT4 Drivers Championship, Porter/Day are just three and a half points in front with Warren/Orton just thirteen points behind them in fourth.