Racing Spirit of Leman confirm their second entry within ACO rules racing in 2025

Tuesday, December 03, 2024

Great news out of the European Le Mans Series today as the Swiss based Racing Spirit of Leman team had their Aston Martin Racing Vantage LMGT3 powered entry confirmed ahead of next season’s campaign.

Already confirmed within next season’s FIA World Endurance Championship with two of this season’s ELMS effort in both Derek DeBoer and Valentin Hasse-Clot, today’s news sees the young French Aston Martin Racing factory driver also confirmed alongside two fellow countrymen in another exciting new racing possibility as the solo AMR powered entry this time around.

Very familiar names and faces of course from their FIA WEC efforts this season within the #777 D’Station Racing AMR effort, sees both Erwan Bastard and Clement Mateu all join forces within the team’s second season in the European series and their #59 entry.

DeBoer, Hasse-Clot and third driver Casper Stevenson ran within the team’s new 2024 AMR Vantage LMGT3 for the first and lead the LMGT3 class for much of the season before finally losing out at the final round in Portugal to eventually finish third within the eleven strong class after six round season, so a benchmark has already been established.

For 2025, the series confirmed a similar six round season but with a slight change in venues with Silverstone getting itself back onto the roster after several years out in the ACO rules doldrums.

Grid wise, the LMGT3 grid will increase to thirteen cars alongside ten LMP3 and twenty-one LMP2 entries spread across the two sub-classes available within that.

With one full competitive season within the FIA WEC now under the belts for both Bastard and Mateu within the new Vantage, expectation will again be high as the series competes at Barcelona in early April through Le Castellet, Imola, Spa Francorchamps and Silverstone before ending in Portimao in mid-October.