Eight Aston Martins and SRO America descend upon VIR this weekend with another busy package of racing
Tuesday, July 15, 2025
Their previous rounds was from Sebring way back in mid-May and there are one or two changes amongst the collective Aston Martin Racing powered crews going into this weekend’s events.
At the top of the list, the headlining GT World Challenge America Series this week sees just one AMR Vantage GT3 take part within the expected sixteen strong entry for these two races as the #2 Racers Edge Motorsport AMR makes alternative arrangements for its bronze rated driver Jason Bell within just the GT America Series.
That leaves the #24 Heart of Racing AMR of Gray Newell and Darren Turner to try what they might after their pair of P7 finishes within Pro-Am last time out.
Within that GT America Series, the Vantage GT3 of Bell will not be the sole Aston Martin either as Michael Fitzpatrick and his 89X Motorsport team come back for some more, hoping that consistency can be more the key after he secured a P2 class finish over the bumps of Sebring in race one but failed to finish race two.
They and just seven other cars will compete within their two forty-minute, non-pit stop punctuated races over the weekend.
That leaves the ultra-competitive GT4 America Series and their expected twenty-nine car entry, within which will feature five AMR Vantage GT4 crews. That’s unfortunately a two car drop from Sebring but will again feature two cars from the JMF Motorsport team and a car apiece from each of the Skip Barber Racing, Heart of Racing and Van Ders Steur AMR teams as well.
Sebring saw the #39 car of Max Hewitt step up from the GT America Series to compete within the busier GT4 America Series for the first time alongside accomplished side-kick Luca Mars within the silver class and from where the dup secured two class pole positions, a P2 class finish (P3 overall) in race one and an P5 class finish in race two to round off a successful weekend in Florida.
Obviously, they were will trying to show that that was no fluke around VIR but the two JMF crews suffered lots of mistakes and misfortune at Sebring that effectively saw them take themselves out of race contention both times whilst the #26 HoRT AMR of Hannah Grisham/Hannah Greenemeir and the #07 Skip Barber Racing entry of brothers Alex and Michael Garcia each had to make do with a pair of P7 and P4 finishes within their respective silver and Am classes.
For each series, official track action begins on Friday with Free Practice before rolling into Saturday with Qualifying and the first race of the weekend before rounding off their respective weekends with race two on Sunday.
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