Further AMR powered successes within last weekends SRO America visit to CoTA

Monday, April 28, 2025

Following Germany in the realms of Aston Martin Racing powered business at the weekend came the return of SRO America’s usual return to service with its trio of GT World Challenge America and GT4 America Series running their second rounds of the season together with the GT America Series running their third round of the season – all this time from the Circuit of The Americas in Austin, Texas.

As previously reported, there were a number a few changes between crews and series but overall, there were still seven AMR powered GT4 crews taking part within both the GT4 and GT America Series with a further two AMR Vantage GT3 crews within the topflight GTWC America Series.

Trailing the pathways already set by the GT4 based series running within Germany earlier in the days saw three crews return class podium finishes at the end of their one three-hour round on Saturday. The new to AMR JMF Motorsport team continued their fine start to the relationship (as initiated at the opening round from Sonoma earlier in the month) with a P2 finish for the #4 car of Mike David Ortmann and Braydon Arthur.

Their silver class finish was closely followed by the #26 Heart of Racing AMR of Hannah Grisham and Hannah Greenemeir who secured their first silverware of the new year as did the #15 Archangel pairing of Adrian Comstock and Thomas Merrill who converted a lowly P25 qualifying position into a P3 overall / P2 in Pro-Am finish for their efforts.

Those performances were mirrored within the GT America Series as the sole AMR running #39 Van Der Steur car of Max Hewitt continued from where he left off at Sonoma with a pair of visits to the podium for his P2 finish in race 1 and up one step to claim a class win by the end of the second forty-minute race of the weekend.

Finishing off with the Heart of Racing and Racers Edge AMR Vantage GT3’s competing within the GT World Challenge America Series saw distinct progress made from the two crews since their opening round in California.

Inter team honours again went to the #24 HoRT entry of Gray Newell and Darren Turner over the #2 Racers Edge entry of Jason Bell and Michael Cooper (only just each time though) as Saturdays opener saw the pair move up the ladder to achieve P4 and P5 finishes in class respectively before ending the weekend with a P7 and P9 finish in class on Sunday.