Weekend round up and an unexpected podium celebration
Monday, March 03, 2025
Racing as the sole AMR representative this time around within the two forty-five-minute races (both held on Saturday this time) saw the venerable American racer take third place within the Bronze Cup sub-class within his main GSX class in race one.
DePew and his team will now move onto Sebring for the next round of the Michelin Pilot Challenge Series there in two weeks’ time.
Also, within the USA at Barber to be exact, the #168 Team Speed Syndicate team were also back in action within the World Racing League Series and their demanding 8 + 7 Hour race weekend format.
With detail always hard to come by, it appears that an early DNF within Saturday’s opener sidelined the Airbnb liveried AMR Vantage GT4 before coming back on Sunday with an overall P12 finish within their GTO class.
Jason Bell and Michael Cooper were also out testing for the first time with their Racers Edge prepared AMR Vantage GT3 Evo that they will compete in within this seasons GT World Challenge America Series that starts soon at Sonoma.
Finally, and away from any pressures of a race weekend, we had a coupler of AMR powered teams out testing ahead of the start to their 2025 commitments. In the UK, the MKH Racing team were out at Silverstone with their Vantage GT4 Evo that drivers Peter Montague and Stuart Hall will run this season within the (new for 2025) Endurance Cup.
The team presently remains the sole AMR confirmed entry and with Media Day fast approaching at the end of the month – we hope it doesn’t stay that way!!
Then finally in Japan, the D’Station Racing team were out at the Super Taikyu Series official test weekend at Motegi with their Vantage GT3 Evo.
Recently confirmed as competing within this series as well as the Super GT Series again, drivers (and bosses) Satoshi Hoshino and Tomonobu Fujii were again on hand alongside guest driver Yuta Uemura who was deputising for an absent Charlie Fagg within the #777 car.
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