AMR powered Bronze Cup crews to go head to head in Michelin Pilot Challenge finale next month
Sunday, September 21, 2025
Four Vantage GT4 entries again from the Team TGM, Rebel Rock and Van Der Steur teams saw the forty-one strong combined grid run almost an entirely clean first hour (except for the usual technical infractions here and there) before the Safety Car was finally called out for duty just before that milestone which of course bumped the grid back together again.
That left little over a fifty-minute sprint to the flag for the cars (usually in GS) Pro driver with the #46 TGM car of Paul Holton and Matt Plumb looking strong in the top five for the first fifty minutes. The #71 Rebel Rock AMR of Frank DePew and Robin Liddell got off to another bad start with DePew being given incident responsibility for an earlier incident which again necessitated another recover driver from Liddell.
At the restart, Matt Plumb held onto his P2 position but had cars queuing up behind him through the twisty infield – a position that he held onto until the next Safety Car intervention just before the thirty minutes to go mark where on that restart, the #46 was tagged into a spin from behind that would see another podium potential pass the crew by for an ultimately lowly P11 finish.
That left Liddell pushing for top AMR powered honours in that final half hour of racing but even that Scot’s canny ability wasn’t enough to push his #71 car onto the podium by the end as they would eventually finish in P4.
Top honours, however, came again within the GS Bronze Cup as both the #15 Van Der Steur AMR of Christine Sloss and Glenn McGee battled it out again with the #64 Team TGM entry of Ted Giovanis and Hugh Plumb.
With the #15 car leading the class for much of the race, it was another opportunist move from Hugh Plumb on that final Safety Car restart that saw the #64 car pass the #15 car for position in class for another 1-2 for the AMR pairing.
Those results still see the #64 crew leading the way within Bronze Cup but only with a gap more than passable by Sloss should results go her way at the season finale from Petit Le Mans next month.
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