An additional Aston Martin for this weekends British GT Silverstone 500
Tuesday, April 22, 2025
An enhanced grid entry has just been confirmed for this weekend’s second round of the British GT Championship from Silverstone as now thirty-three crews prepare themselves for the Blue Ribband Silverstone 500 event.
The opening round to the 2025 season from Donington Park saw twenty-six GT3 and GT4 crews take to the track for the first time of asking at the start of the month and todays entry news out of the SRO sees one further Aston Martin Racing Vantage GT3 to add to the two full season AMR GT3’s and the Endurance Cup entered Vantage GT4.
Like Donington Park before it, this second round of the season is also another Endurance Cup round for those eligible entries for which the #50 MKH Racing AMR Vantage GT4 of Peter Montague and Stuart Hall is one.
They will compete within an overall GT4 class of fourteen car and be one of four cars entered within the Endurance Cup – three of which are racing within the Pro-Am sub-class. The opening round saw the #50 crew finish P20 overall but P2 within class for their efforts within that two-hour race – the Silverstone 500 will this time be a three-hour affair!
At the other end of the paddock, they will again be joined by both full season GT3 entries from the Blackthorn AMR and Beechdean AMR teams for their Pro-Am #7 entry of Jonny Adam and Giacoma Petrobelli and the #97 Silver-Am entry for Andrew Howard and Tom Wood respectively.
Donington Park certainly saw a fiery Italian aboard the #7 car – first snatching a P5 qualifying slot before being in the hunt of the early stages of that race. That was before contact with a slower GT4 saw the car pick up sizeable front-end damage (and penalties) that would eventually ruin their race to end the day P11 overall, P9 in class.
That, however, wasn’t the case for the #97 Beechdean crew in their debut race with yet another livery colour scheme where dogged persistence from Howard before handing a fast car over to the charging Wood saw them end the day P7 overall and P1 in class for a very welcomed early visit to the podium.
They will this time be joined by a second car out of the Blackthorn stable for team boss Claude Bovet and Charles Bateman within the #19 car. Bateman ran with the team within this season’s Asian Le Mans Series alongside both Adam and Petrobelli/Reema Juffali. Although permitted to race, this and all the other additional ad-hoc GT3 entries will not be points scoring.
This weekend’s timetable will again see private testing on Friday before Free Practice, Pre-Qualifying and Qualifying on Saturday ahead of Warm up and the start of the race at 12:30 on Sunday.
