Competing at the Michelin Raceway Road Atlanta circuit and IMSA’s annual Petit Le Mans end of season event, the #64 crew went into yesterday’s final two-hour race of the season holding a slight lead over the #15 Van Der Steur AMR Vantage of Christine Sloss (driving again this weekend with husband Ben), the title win was a straight shoot-out between these two cars.
With the guesting #8 89X Motorsport AMR of Mike Fitzpatrick and Johan Schwartz initially stealing the Bronze Cup show with pole position in Qualifying before all three bronze cup entered Aston Martins came home in a 1-2-3 format in class to end another season on a high.
For their first season of IMSA racing largely together with Ben having to skip a couple of rounds, the #15 crews second place finish within the Bronze Cup is also one to be proud of for them.
For the other two AMR runners of the #46 Team TGM car of Paul Holton and Matt Plumb together with the #71 Rebel Rock Racing AMR of Frank DePew and Robin Liddell – their 2025 season would unfortunately finish in very much the manner in which it started and continued through the year in as again the #46 car showed good pace in qualifying only to drop down the order as the race continued whilst the #71 car would again come to the attention of the Race Stewards giving them further time penalties from which they could not recover.
At the end of this race, the #46 car would finish P9 with the #71 car in P17 whilst overall the #46 car would still be the highest placed Aston Martin in the leaderboard in eighth with the #71 not too far behind in tenth.
Still – it was another great year of racing entertainment.
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