From Le Mans to Watkins Glen for many an Aston Martin driver this weekend

Sunday, June 15, 2025

It’s a very busy time for many of the Aston Martin (Racing) drivers who competed at Le Mans this week as back-to-back-to-back twenty-four-hour races see their racing services demanded both at the Nurburgring and Spa 24 Hour events but also with the latest round of the IMSA Weathertech Sportscar Championship in between.

This weekend coming sees the sixth round of the North American series take place with another six-hour running from Watkins Glen for the whole IMSA class structure which for Aston Martin fans will mean the return of the both the IMSA Valkyrie GTP car as well as three AMR Vantage GTD’s this time around.

Having raced in opposite Valkyries this weekend at Le Mans, Ross Gunn and Roman De Angelis pair up again within the blue liveried #23 car for this six-hour race on Sunday amongst a GTP entry of twelve other cars.

Being another Endurance round within the IMSA season, this will mean the return of the #19 Van Der Stuer Racing AMR Vantage GTD of Rory Van Der Stuer, Valentin Hasse-Clot and Anthony McIntosh alongside that of the #27 Heart of Racing AMR Vantage GTD entry of Zacharie Robichon, Tom Gamble and Casper Stevenson.

Again, all six drivers listed featured somewhere with last week’s proceedings at Le Mans with Van Der Steur competing within the two Road to Le Mans series with his Code Racing Development AMR Vantage GT3 team whilst Stevenson raced within a Ferrari LMGT3.

This time around, however, also sees the welcome return of the Magnus Racing team and their #44 AMR Vantage GTD of John Potter and Spencer Pumpelly. Since their last showing within the series at the Rolex 24 at the start of the year, third man Andy Lally has since retired from competitive motor racing in favour of series management elsewhere with his place now being taken (at Watkins Glen at least) by Marco Sorensen.

This weekend’s event features a healthy combined GTP, LMP2, GTP Pro and GTD entry of fifty six cars with their first session on track starting on Friday with Free Practice 1 with Free Practice 2 and Qualifying on Saturday. The six Hours of the Glen race starts at 12:10Hrs local on Sunday.

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