Zandvoort disappoints the AMR runners in both Sprint Cup and GT4 European Series
Monday, May 19, 2025
Zandvoort wasn’t presumably the circuit of choice for the Aston Martin Racing powered runners within both the GT World Challenge Europe Sprint Cup and GT4 European Series Vantage GT3 and GT4 runners at the weekend as many came close, none were able to threaten the top steps of either series podiums.
Both racing only their second rounds of the season for both the GT3 runners within the GTWCE Series after their season opener around the Grand Prix loop of the Brands Hatch circuit and the whole host of runners within the GT4 only series, the twists and turns of the seaside nestled Dutch circuit (as well as their competition) proved difficult for the seven AMR powered runners within both series.
The GTWCE Series did welcome a third AMR powered crew as Ricardo Baptista and Raphael Suzuki finally made their series debut within their #270 Comtoyou Racing AMR alongside that of their #21 stablemates in the form of Jamie Day and Kobe Pauwels and the #35 Walkenhorst entry of Matteo Villagomez and Henrique Chaves amongst the forty-one strong entry.
Racing within the Bronze, Silver and Pro classes respectively by the #270 and #35 cars got roughed up within the opening hour-long race of the weekend and whilst the Brazilian crew within the #270 were still able to finish their debut race, the #35 car sadly didn’t due to damage. Despite finishing well down the overall order in P15, the #21 Comtoyou entry narrowly missed the class podium with a P4 finish.
It was a similar tail within Sunday’s final round for both the #270 and #35 as although both finish this time around, both cars were well outside of the points for their efforts with only the #21 crew replicating a higher order finish with another P4 placement in class.
Four AMR Vantage GT4 crews were also in action within the supporting GT4 European Series with two cars apiece from both the Mirage Racing and Racing Spirit of Leman stables.
This time racing with forty-three competitors, only the Pro-Am entry of the #7 Mirage Racing AMR for Stanislav Safronov and Alexandr Vaintrub threatened the class podium with a P2 finish in race one and then a P3 finish on Sunday for them to now slot in a distant second to the dominating Henrik Still/Joachim Bolting driven Porsche.
The #5 Mirage Racing entry of Ruben Del Sarte/Roberto Faria managed a P7 finish in race one but a DNF in race 2, as did the #74 RSLM crew of David Kullmann and Will Orton who failed to finish race one but put in a P13 result in race two. Only the #39 RSLM entry of Baudouin Detout and Clement Seyler finished both races within the silver class with a P12 and P8 finish respectively.
The GTWCE Sprint Cup series will be back in action from Misano in mid-July whilst the GT4’s will be back in action slightly earlier at Spa Week at the end of June.
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