Five AMRs with familiar faces for the FFSA GT4 finale from Paul Ricard this weekend
Wednesday, October 02, 2024
Last time racing with the sole two remaining AMR powered crews from both the Mirage Racing and Championship winning Racing Spirit of Leman team, this weekend’s provisional entry list a least shows five such Vantage GT4 crews for an hour-long night race on Saturday before their season finale later on Sunday afternoon.
Mateo Villagomez and Victor Weyrich of course need mentioning first as the crew overcome previous seasons shortcomings to secure their silver class championship win with races in hand after their P2 and P4 finishes were enough to see off their closest class competition.
They will be joined by one of their teams GT4 European entrants as Baudouin Detout comes out for one last race after his Monza event within the other SRO series ended heavily into the crash barriers for his then teammate during their first qualifying run with damage then ruling their #39 car out of any further involvement.
This time arriving with another co-driver in Oskar Kristensen (a fellow Porsche racer within the GT4 European Series this season), hopefully the pair will get to see a lot more track action this time around.
From the Mirage Racing team, we have the return of their #7 full season Pro-Am entry with Stanislav Safronov and Aleksandr Vaintrub again behind the wheel of the 2024 Vantage GT4 Evo. Sadly for them both, their P4 and P7 finishes last time out at Dijon-Prenois was not sufficient to keep their class title hopes alive so this event is ‘just for fun’.
We then have a second entry from the Mirage Racing team again as Ruben Del Sarte returns to the series with another co-driver this time after he and Josh Miller opened their 2024 account togther within this series at Nogaro before moving onto their main GT4 European Series commitments. He will be joined within his new Vantage GT4 Evo with a one Fred Roberts from Canada within the Pro-Am class.
The only Fred Roberts I know was the one who purchased the former Beechdean AMR British GT GT4 Championship winning 17A Vantage GT4 within which he raced a number of rounds within the SRO America series before Covid put paid to that back in early 2020.
Finally, but certainly by no means least, we will also have the #1 Street Art Racing entry for both Pascal Bachmann and Jahid Fazal Karim again as they see out another varied season of racing together within one of their trusted AMR Vantage GT4’s within the Am class.
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