Another packed set of grids for the SRO America trilogy of series due at CoTA this weekend
Tuesday, April 22, 2025
For both the GT World Challenge America and GT4 America Series, this visit to CoTA will be their second rounds of the season having both opened at Sonoma at the end of March whilst the GT America Series has already snuck in their second round of the year with a west coast visit to the streets of Long Beach California just two weeks ago.
Best performances within each series full season entries have come within the GT4 ranks as they are where the numbers of entries are compared to the just two AMR Vantage GT3 entries within the GT World Challenge.
Both bronze rated drivers within that series did spread their wings a little the other week to race their GT3’s solo at Long Beach within the GT America series and whilst Gray Newell had cause to celebrate both with an overall pole position and podium finish at the end of one race whilst Jason Bell possibly regretted the whole idea of it after technical issues all weekend.
Back within their usual series this time around, Newell will again compete alongside AMR factory driver Darren Turner aboard their #24 Heart of Racing AMR whilst Bell rejoins Michael Cooper aboard their #2 Racers Edge prepared GT3 Evo for two more, ninety-minute-long races.
In GT America there has been something of a trade of as it’s just the #39 Van Der Steur AMR Vantage GT4 entry for Max Hewitt after the #007 Prosport Competition AMR of Tim Savage swaps over to the GT4 America for this weekend. Both drivers rightly elected to skip the street circuit round of Long Beach to concentrate on the more forgiving circuits on the calendar with Hewitt still on something of a high after his P2 and P1 finishes in class last time out at Sonoma.
His entry list again sees fourteen entries but with just three of those being within the GT4 class, just a finish this time around will automatically receive a trip to the class podium – but obviously, everything is in the winning these days after each of their two forty-minute races.
That leaves the now six AMR Vantage GT4 entries now listed within the GT4 America Series and their two, hour long races this weekend.
That leaves the now six AMR Vantage GT4 entries now listed within the GT4 America Series and their two, hour long races this weekend.
Last time out at Sonoma saw three crews visit their respective class podiums with a debut P3 finish in silver for the #4 JMF Motorsport entry for Braydon Arthur and Mike David Ortmann whilst theirs sister #3 car of Jesse Webb and Jonathon Neudorf enjoyed similar spoils in race 2 with a P3 finish of their own.
The #07 Skip Barber Racing AMR of the Garcia brothers also visited the Am class podium after race 2 but the weekend was hard graft for the other two AMR entries for Hannah Grisham and Hannah Greenemeir within their #26 Heart of Racing entry as well as the #15 Archangel entry for Adrian Comstock and Thomas Merril.
The additional car to this series will be the #007 Prosport entry for Savage and Dwayne Moses, a driver who has been with the team for a while and raced their older 15A iteration of Vantage GT4 within the World Racing League.
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