Just the usual GT4 America excitement from Road America
Sunday, August 17, 2025
With that, that left the two JMF Motorsport, Heart of Racing, Van Der Steur and Skip Barber Racing Aston Martin Racing powered entries to keep us entertained as these four silver class and one Am class runners formed part of the expected twenty-seven runners for this race weekend.
Saturday’s postponement of race one to a slot yet to be determined within the programme of the series next and penultimate round from Barber Motorsport Park sadly left the qualifying efforts of the #3, #4 JMF crews and that of the #39 Van Der Steur wanting as those three crews would have started that race from within the top three in class.
Qualifying for race two on Sunday has already taken place earlier on Saturday which saw the #3 JMF car of Jesse Webb and Jonathon Neudorf secured a P2 starting position with the #39 VDS entry of Max Hewitt/Luca Mars, the #4 JMF entry of Mike David Ortmann/Braydon Arthur (although not racing today by 'force majeure) and the #26 Heart of Racing AMR of Hannah Grisham/Hannah Greenemeir were all a bit further back in P6-P7-P8 respectively in silver whilst the #07 SBR entry was down in P23 overall – P7 in class.
Sunday at least provided the grid with a bright and dry race surface to go battling on the race finally got underway to its usual frenetic self as cars went two-three wide into the opening corners. With the first few racing laps of the weekend now under their belts, the #07 SBR had improved at the tail of the pack whilst both JMF Astons were heading the brand in P4 and P7 overall.
At quarter race distance, the JMF cars were then nose to tail in fifth and sixth with the #VDS Aston in eighth and the HoRT #26 car stagnating in P13 at the tail of the silver class.
Contact between two cars during the pitstop window saw Race control hold out until all remaining cars had served their stop before going to Full Course Yellow to pick up the stranded BMW before going back to green with just over twenty minutes remaining but will all four silver class Astons now within the top ten overall.
Another hectic restart saw contact between the top two cars before another made heavy contact with the concrete wall a little further back as the two JMF and VDS Astons traded paint between themselves for position. The clean-up operation left just a nine-minute dash to the flag.
Webb in the #3 took an early lead into the restart but side to side contact between the #3 and the #77 Porsche saw those two cars spin out – taking the #39 VDS Aston with it leaving the #4 JMF car of Ortmann at the head of the pack before a third FCY was called for that incident on track.
Unfortunately, the race was to finish behind the Safety with the #4 JMF AMR of Ortmann and Arthur claiming the race win with the #26 HoRT of the two Hannah’s taking P5 overall/P4 in class whilst the 307 SBR AMR had moved up to claim a P12 overall/P2 in Am finish for their efforts. Whilst the #3 and #39 cars would eventually finish – both would be outside of the points.
Next stop for a triple header will be from Barber Motorsport Park.
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