Just two Astons to tango at the start of Speedweek from Spa Francorchamps this weekend

It’s the start of the SRO Speedweek this weekend and that means its again time for the British GT Championship to kicks things off with their fourth round of the season from Spa Francorchamps.

Two endurance rounds from both Donington Park and Silverstone before the first of two sprint races that made up the third round from Oulton Park just over three weeks ago where the Aston Martin Racing Vantage GT3 crews from the Blackthorn AMR and Beechdean AMR teams featured upon their respective Pro-Am or Silver-Am podiums at least once over that weekend.

Despite this weekend’s Spa round also being another three-hour endurance round, we again only see the two AMR Vantage GT3’s of Jonny Adam/Giacomo Petrobelli and Andrew Howard/Tom Wood with the #50 MKH Racing AMR Vantage GT4 of Peter Montague and Stuart Hall missing from their GT4 Endurance Cup obligations. We suspect that Hall is again double booked with his RoFGO driver coaching duties in Austria this weekend.

A P3 and a P4 results from Oulton Park gets the #7 Blackthorn crews GT3 Championship hopes back on track after the disaster of the opening round as they now climb up to fifth within the overall and Pro-Am GT3 Drivers Championship whist the Silver-Am pairing within the #97 Beechdean car lost some of their advantage to their only class advisory after they finished second fiddle to the #86 Bridger Motorsport Honda NSX GT3 crew at the end of those two sprint races.

Having already tested at the Belgian circuit just after the Spa 24 Official test two weeks before Oulton Park, these two cars join another (lowly) twelve GT3 cars spread across the Pro-Am and Silver-Am classes as well as just eight GT4 crews with a further two cars joining them from the Endurance Cup only entrants.

As usual, the British GT track action begins on Friday with paid testing before the start of Free Practice, Pre -Qualifying and Qualifying on Saturday before a 12:30hrs local start on Sunday to this three-hour affair.