One Aston a piece for ELMS return and Le Mans Cup debut from Silverstone this weekend (UPDATED)
Sunday, September 07, 2025
Back in 2019 when the event was last run at the Silverstone circuit, the GTE platform was still in operation as opposed to the LMGT3 platform ruleset that is used today but unlike that August date in 2019 – there were no Aston Martin Racing powered entries.
This year we have of course been blessed by the presence of the #59 Racing Spirit of leman AMR Vantage GT3 of Clement Mateu, Erwan Bastard and Valentin Hasse-Clot – a crew who finally delivered upon their possibilities last time out when the-all French driver line won the LMGT3 class outright at Spa Francorchamps two weeks ago.
As a result of that finish in Belgium, the #59 crew now find themselves lifted to lead the LMGT3 Drivers Championship table by one solitary point with just the races from Silverstone and then Portimao still to go.
They join forty-three other LMP2, LMP3 and LMGT3 entries for this four-hour race on Sunday around the full 5.6-mile Grand Prix circuit where track action will begin with Free Practice 1 on Friday before Free Practice 2 and qualifying across Saturday before the four-hour race starting at 13:00hrs local on Sunday.
Joining them at Silverstone for what will be their first time in their history will be the LMP3 and GT3 teams and crew that make up the Michelin Le Mans Cup Series who will bring along a near capacity grid of forty-three entries of their own.
Within this series we also have the early GT3 class pace setters from the French based Code Racing Development AMR Vantage GT3 with drivers Philipp Sager and Rory Van Der Steur usually behind the wheel of the #11 entry together.
However, for Silverstone, the young American is this time absent (not sure why just yet) and his place is now being taken by the increasingly busy Valentin Hasse-Clot as the Frenchman double stints in both the ELMS and Le Mans Cup Series this time around
Having started the season so well at Catalunya and Paul Ricard, high end performances started to wear off over the two Road to Le Mans races at Le Mans before most recently at Spa Francorchamps where the crew qualified in fourth, but countless track and pit lane penalties put them back to a disappointing P8 in class finish.
Having started the season so well at Catalunya and Paul Ricard, high end performances started to wear off over the two Road to Le Mans races at Le Mans before most recently at Spa Francorchamps where the crew qualified in fourth, but countless track and pit lane penalties put them back to a disappointing P8 in class finish.
From leading the class after round two, the #11 crew now find themselves fourth in the table and sixteen points behind the new leaders going into this Silverstone and Portimao final run in for the season.
Also starting their track activities on Friday with Free Practice 1 and 2 before Qualifying and race on Saturday.
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