Both Astons looking racey ahead of Monday British GT sprint races from Oulton Park

Saturday, May 24, 2025

The third round of the British GT Championship is warming up nicely up at Oulton Park after Free Practice, Pre-Qualifying and then individual Qualifying sessions set the grids for Bank Holiday Mondays first tow sprint races of the season.

As previously listed, this sprint round sees just the two Aston Martin Racing Vantage GT3’s from both the Blackthorn AMR and Beechdean AMR teams take part as both Giacomo Petrobelli and Jonny Adam look to continue their fast pace within their #7 Pro-Am entry whilst Andrew Howard and Tom Wood seek to consolidate their position within their Silver-Am entered #97 car.

Starting upon something of damp but drying track, both Aston crews showed immediate intent with the first track session of the day in Free Practice with both cars running second quickest in each class before the #97 car went sixth quickest overall in Pre-Qualifying.

The event then moved onto individual Qualifying sessions where each driver would run the car to determine their cars starting position in each of Monday’s two, on hour races with both Petrobelli and Howard (P12 overall) earning themselves a P2 start in class for race one.

Next it was the turn of both Adam and Wood to do likewise as Adam earned himself a third row start in P5 but with Wood scooping another Silver-Am Pole Position P10 overall.

With a day of twiddling their thumbs tomorrow, the two races start at 10:45 and 15:45hrs local on Monday.