The same seven Aston Martins in SRO America travel to Barber this weekend with three races in store for some
Wednesday, September 03, 2025
With high ambient temperatures again this weekend at the 2.4-mile circuit, the threat of thunderstorms again on Saturday could put paid to the efforts of the many runners in each series.
Much like last time out at Road America three weeks ago, there will be one Aston Martin Racing Vantage GT3 apiece in each of the GT World Challenge America and GT America Series racers as the #24 Heart of Racing AMR of Gray Newell and Darren Turner look to duplicate their P3 class winning podium winning efforts at Road America whilst the #2 Racers Edge AMR Vantage GT3 of Jason Bell just looks to get in some quality racing laps after another miserable venture out last time again.
Whilst the #24 HoRT AMR will again compete against fourteen other Pro, Pro-Am and Am class rivels, the entry list for the GT America races has thankfully increased to (albeit just) nine GT3 only based entries. For both crews, championship winning aspirations are not upon the radar this time around.
Finally, there will be the three, one-hour long races of the GT4 America Series as its scheduled twenty-three strong entry list- again featuring Aston Martin Racing powered entries across its silver and Am classes.
Road America started well in Qualifying for the JMF Motorsport and Van Der Steur AMR Vantage GT4 crews of Braydon Arthur and Mike David Ortmann secured pole position in their #4 car ahead of their #3 sister car of Jesse Webb and Jonathon Neudorf in second and the #39 Van Der Steur AMR of Max Hewitt and Luca Mars in third but for the rain storm that descended upon the circuit immediately prior to the start of that opening race. For that reason, race one from Road America has been rescheduled to run within this race weekend on top of its usually rostered two races.
For race 2 which did run on Sunday from Road America saw the #4 JMF crew take an overall solo race win for Ortmann after Arthur proved to be unwell on the day with the Am classed Skip Barber Racing AMR of Michael and Alex Garcia who claimed a second in their class whilst the #26 Heart of Racing Vantage Gt4 of Hannah Grisham and Hannah Greenemeir finished just off the podium this time around, P4 in silver.
Championship wise – the #4 JMF crew of Arthur and Ortmann do still retain something of a mathematical possibility of lifting the silver class drivers crown at Indy, but they would need to certainly finish upon the podium for the remaining five races whilst hoping that the falter along the way themselves.
In Am, the Garcia brothers have a slightly easier points deficit to climb being just forty-two points the current leaders in fourth with these five races to go.
The revised race programme for the GT4 America Series will see the Road America make-up race being ran after Free Practice 2 on Friday before reverting back to its more usual race programme format over both Saturday and Sunday.
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