Roar before the 24 Update
Friday, January 17, 2025
Whilst the headlining Weathertech Sportscar Championship and its four AMR Vantage GTD powered crews have been going about their media business earlier today, we (yes, we may have missed it) have still not heard of why Marco Sorensen’s name has been struck from the #007 Heart of Racing GTD Pro entry but we’re sure that that will come, and the reason will be quite self-explanatory!
Early timing results suggest no issues for the #44 Magnus Racing and #19 Van Der Steur GTD’s but the #27 Heart of Racing car did only do two installation laps during the opening session, without posting a lap time. The others all finished the session comfortably within the top ten per class.
It was a similar situation within the four attending Michelin Pilot Challenge AMR Vantage GT4 runners (not a compulsory attendance required for this series remember). Newcomer’s in husband and wife pairing Christine and Ben Sloss were out in their vibrant new Vantage GT4 Evo as were the #71 Rebel Rock Racing crew (with Frank DePew also confirmed within the car for the test at least) and the new #46 Team TGM Vantage Evo.
The only issue has been with the #64 Team TGM entry – this time being listed as only completing one revolution of the Daytona circuit within the first session. The #82 Van Der Steur entry of Brady Behrmann and Sammy Smith is electively not at this test weekend anyway.
The only issue has been with the #64 Team TGM entry – this time being listed as only completing one revolution of the Daytona circuit within the first session. The #82 Van Der Steur entry of Brady Behrmann and Sammy Smith is electively not at this test weekend anyway.
The remaining news of the day has been from within the VP Racing Sportscar Challenge Series entry for what was four car AMR Vantage GT4 powered entry.
That has now changed to just three with the #3 Fast MD Racing team electing to swap to an Audi R8 GT4 chassis instead. Drivers Matthew Siegal has now been confirmed within the #09 Automatic Racing 17A model entry with Frank DePew within his #72 Evo entry of last season again and Christopher Tasca confirmed within the #89 89X Motorsport 17A model entry as well.
That has now changed to just three with the #3 Fast MD Racing team electing to swap to an Audi R8 GT4 chassis instead. Drivers Matthew Siegal has now been confirmed within the #09 Automatic Racing 17A model entry with Frank DePew within his #72 Evo entry of last season again and Christopher Tasca confirmed within the #89 89X Motorsport 17A model entry as well.
This series will run its first two races of its 2025 campaign this weekend, so time is more of an essence for them that the MPC runners.
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