Just four Aston Martin GT4s take the start within this weekends 43 car strong GT4 European Series opener
Wednesday, April 09, 2025
Unlike the heady days of years gone by when Aston Martin powered participation within the series featured entries in the low double digits, this season sadly sees just four crews from two teams take the plunge into this six round season that starts in France before moving across to Zandvoort, Spa Francorchamps, Misano, the Nurburgring before concluding at their more customary circuit of Catalunya near Barcelona.
French based Mirage Racing were the first to confirm their quartet of drivers as Ruben Del Sarte returns to both team and series, this time alongside Roberto Faria within the silver class as well as Pro-Am pairing Stanislav Safronov and Alexandr Vaintrub returning to what they know best from last year too.
Those two AMR Vantage GT4 Evo entries will now be complemented by a similar pair from the Swiss based Racing Spirit of Leman team who now return with two silver class entries for both Baudouin Detout, Clement Seyler and David Kullmann and Will Orton.
Whilst both Detout and Kullmann are team/series returnee’s, Orton makes the natural progressive step up from the British GT Championship where he drove the Forsetti Motorsport AMR Vantage GT4 alongside Marc Warren to narrowly miss out upon the class title at the end.
Seyler, we remember from his early GT4 European Series days within the Street Art Racing Vantage GT4 where he and Pascal Bachmann secured the Am class title. Since then, the Luxembourger has competed within both GT4 and GT3 series within the SRO Europe family.
Going into this opening two race weekend, the likes of Faria, Detout and Kellmann come race ready having already participated within the Iberian Supercars Series, GT4 Winter Series and Ultimate GT Series respectively over the previous couple of months.
The forty-three strong entry will hit the Le Castellet track for the first time tomorrow with private testing before Free Practice on Friday, Pre-Qualifying and Qualifying on Saturday before two, one-hour races on Sunday.
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