A hard first lesson for the Racers Edge AMR team in their return to the GT4 America Series

The Racers Edge Motorsport team competed their return to the GT4 America Series at the weekend and whilst many positives were learned by the team and their debuting driver, an unfortunate incident within the rain-soaked adventures of race two saw their continued presence within the Safety Car procession take an early end.

Stepping across from the GT America Series where the team had until this point prepared their Aston Martin Racing Vantage GT4 Evo for Jason Bell, a new Pro-Am piloted dynamic within the sister series later emerged for young gun Christian Bach alongside the more established racer Billy Johnson.

 

For Bach, this weekend’s fifth round meeting of the series was from Road America – a wide circuit that challenged the driver but also gave scope for recovery from many potential mistakes on track as all went according to plan within the dry build up to the races.

Bach qualified his #54 car P24 overall (P12 in class) ahead of Friday’s one hour race and whilst the youngster was not able to build up upon his starting position too much by the time of the midpoint pit stop window, the challenges from Johnson was later able for them to claim an inaugural top ten finish in class (P9) and P16 overall.

 

Race two on Saturday was, however, a completely different affair with heavy rain now falling at the circuit just ahead of the warmup lap. Starting from behind the Safety Car, it was Johnson’s turn to take the take (mainly against the many Pros of each Pro-Am line up) but once released to green flag running, the race was soon back in speed under its first of many and prolonged Full Course Yellows.

Again getting back up to speed, a high-speed incident involving two cars in the midfield saw them both leave the circuit at high speed as one either lost their brakes or hit oil upon the already wet surface sending them both off into the gravel and tyre walls. Fortunately, both drivers were otherwise OK but for the #54 car – damage to the front quarter had already been sustained.

 

Eventually pitting close to that pit stop window, the team elected not to repair the damage and send Bach as the race looked set to remain behind the Safety Car for some time and the risk of further damage remained high.

We believe that the team and crew will be seeing out the remainder of the 2026 season, so their next round will be from Barber Motorsport Park in four weeks’ time.

Photo credits – Halston Pitman / Team