Two Aston Martins leading the way as British GT arrives at Snetterton for two more sprint races
Tuesday, July 08, 2025
With it being a sprint round, it’s no surprise to see just the two Aston Martin Racing Vantage GT3 crews from each of the Blackthorn AMR and Beechdean AMR teams listed with the #50 MKH Racing Vantage GT4 entry still only part of the GT4 Endurance Cup package.
The last round from Spa Francorchamps at the start of the SRO Speedweek went effectively perfectly for both crews in the end as both the #7 Blackthorn car of Jonny Adam and Giacomo Petrobelli scored their first overall race win togther this year whilst the #97 Beechdean entry of Andre Howard and Tom Wood did what they simply needed to do and take another win within their own two horse silver-am entry.
Those results see the #7 Blackthorn boost their overall and Pro-Am Championship aspirations by climbing up to second place, just two points behind the 2 Seas Mercedes Benz crew in the overall table and 2.5 points behind the same pairing within the Pro-Am table going into the Snetterton round.
Within the silver-am table, the #97 Beechdean crew extend their championship lead over the Bridger Motorsport Honda NSX powered crew to lead Jonny Ip (the only one of the three drivers used within that team on 131 points) by now seventeen and a half points going into this round.
This weekend’s provisional entry list sadly still sees just fourteen GT3 entries and a smaller GT4 entry of just nine cars this time around. Track action will begin on Friday with three private test sessions before Free Practice, Pre-Qualifying and individual Qualifying sessions on Saturday before both races either side of lunch on Sunday.
After the last British GT round at Spa, the Beechdean AMR did stay on at the circuit and did rather well in class at the latter Spa 24 hour too!!
Photo Credits – Teams / Jacob Ebrey
