Another great year in 2025 for many an Aston Martin Racing racer and team
Monday, December 29, 2025
Class winning podium positions aside, the Belgian based Comtoyou Racing team were the first to claim a full class championship win as Kobe Pauwels and Jamie Day secured the silver class win within the GT World Challenge Europe Sprint Cup Series.
This wouldn’t be the only major victory for Pauwel as he would go on to win the Aston Martin Racing Drivers Academy prize later in the year, taking over that mantel from Day who won it the year before.
Stanislav Safronov and Alexandre Vaintrub went one further to secure their Pro-Am championship win within both the GT4 European Series and FFSA GT4 Series with their Mirage Racing AMR Vantage GT4 this summer.
Stateside, the #64 Team TGM AMR Vantage GT4 crew of Ted Giovanis and Hugh Plumb successfully defended their Bronze Cup Championship win from last season within the IMSA Michelin Pilot Challenge Series this year. The trio of possibilities is sadly off the cards now with the team having moved to the blue oval brand since the end of the season.
A return to the GT Cup Championship for the Feathers Motorsport team saw the young guns of Archie Clark and Tom Canning secure their GTH Class Championship win with their older 17A variant of the Vantage GT4 whilst Vaclav Janik narrowly missed out on something similar within the similarly named but European based GT Cup Series as he raced his new Vantage GT4 Evo for the first time within that series Endurance class.
The only other GT3 based Championship win came from the Verstappen.com racers of Thierry Vermuelin, Harry King and Chris Lulham who between them secured the Gold Class of the GT World Challenge Europe Endurance Cup who also secured a class win at the coveted Crowdstrike 24 Hours of Spa along the way.
Unfortunately, this team has also moved away from the Aston Martin Racing Vantage GT3 for 2026 so there will be no repeat next season from these guys at least.
The final championship accolades for an AMR powered team or two came from within the Iberian Supercars Series after Mathieu Martins secured the Espana, CPV and Iberian Pro class titles with his Racar Motorsport prepared car (only one driver claimed that honour after a late driver change for the final rounds of each).
That went alongside the same titles but within the GT4 Am Class for drivers Ruben Vaquinhas and Pedro Bastos-Rezende did the same as Martins with their Gianfranco Motorsport prepared car to round off another great season for that new partnership.
That went alongside the same titles but within the GT4 Am Class for drivers Ruben Vaquinhas and Pedro Bastos-Rezende did the same as Martins with their Gianfranco Motorsport prepared car to round off another great season for that new partnership.
With the Asian Le Mans Series already in full swing for tehir 2025/26 campaign and with the IMSA Rolex 24 from Daytona and the Intercontinental GT Challenge opener from Bathurst now just weeks away, we won’t need to wait for too long before 2026 kicks off in earnest.
Happy New Year and thanks for being part of it all.
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