Our last round of weekend previews comes in the form of GT4 powered racing as both the Iberian Racing Festival and Britcar Series deliver us some more Aston Martin Racing powered entries to go alongside those already mentioned.

Running this time as a solo, bespoke event for the Campeonato De Portugal de Velocidade Series at the street circuit of Vila Real this time sees just two AMR Vantage GT4 powered crews as listed within the twenty-five strong entry. More used to seeing these names and teams running within the Iberian Supercars Series, this weekend will see just #28 Racar Motorsport AMR of Vasco Oliveira with Manuel Giao compete alongside stablemate Rubens Vaquinhas within his #777 RV7 Team Aston Martin.

 

Last year saw double that AMR powered entry within a smaller overall entry and also proved productive for Vaquinhas who secured two Am class race wins over the weekend to help him on his way to an overall Am Class championship win.

Back within the UK, the Britcar Endurance Series will be running their fourth round of their six-round season with another ninety-minute race at Snetterton on Saturday.

 

Father and son pairing Bill and Martin Addison compete again together within their 17A variant of the Vantage GT4 platform. The pair did also compete together last time out at Spa Francorchamps where one of them did survive a multi-rotation spin at the bottom of Eau Rouge during the heavy rain of Free Practice.

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Another Aston Martin Racing powered team will be competing at Spa Francorchamps this weekend as the Britcar Championship hosts its third round of the season from the Belgian circuit.

Representing the brand this time around will be father and son duo Martin and Bill Addison who will be competing within their #189 AMR Vantage GT4 within the Championships GT class for this weekend’s two sixty-minute races within the Supercar Challenge powered by Hankook events with an expected entry of twenty multi-classed cars.

 

After two races apiece at the season’s opening rounds at both Donington and Oulton Parks, the #189 crew presently stand sixth overall in the Driver’s Championship – third in class with plenty more racing opportunity still to come with a season that concludes at their “Into the Night Race” from Brands Hatch in early November.

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Aston Martin Racing from across the ages and classes was also well represented at the weekend a literally hundreds of vintage and classic race cars descended upon Silverstone for what is now known as the Silverstone Festival.

 

Rounding off last weekend’s Aston Martin Racing customer team related action saw differing eras of Vantage GT4 take to the track on either side of the Atlantic – one with track success but the other without.

Starting in the UK, Saturday saw the non-championship event running of the British Endurance Championship/Britcar 6hr of Donington Park. Sadly, not featuring either of the full season BEC runners, it did however see the return of the Addison Plant AMR of Martin/ Bill Addison and Tom Mensley.

 

Two further race events round off the Aston Martin Racing powered customer and Partner team commitments this weekend with the return of the GT Open Series from the Paul Ricard circuit in southern France and a six-hour, non-championship round of the British Endurance Championship/Britcar series from Donington Park.

In France, the Belgian based Street Art Racing AMR team return for the fourth round of the series with team backer, Jahid Fazal-Karim returning to the driver’s seat of his #007 AMR Vantage GT3 that he shares with Pascal Bachman.

 

It turned out to be a successful debut for the new Master’s GT Trophy Series from Donington Park earlier today for the two Aston Martin Racing Vantage GT4’s entered amongst the ten-car entry.

With an eligibility of GT4, one make Trophy and Challenge cars dated between 2007 and 2018, allowed the #247 Vantage N24 of Chris Griffin and #189 Vantage GT4 of Martin Addison to compete amongst a grid otherwise made of Lamborghini Trofeo’s, Porsche Cup cars as well as two Ginetta G55’s and a BMW GT4.