British GT returns north to Donington Park for the first 2 hour race of the year

British GT returns north to Donington Park for the first 2 hour race of the year

 


This weekend’s UK headlining event will of course be the latest round of the British GT Championship from Donington Park where, despite this week’s small fluctuations on entries, sees us return to two’s company as far as Aston Martin Racing powered teams are concerned.

After a pair of one long sprints to open the season at Oulton Park over easter weekend, Silverstone’s three-hour enduro invited other AMR equipped teams out to play with one, the Century Motorsport AMR Vantage GT4 of David Holloway and Bradley Ellis earning themselves a GT4 Pro-Am Class podium for their efforts.


We also saw the first running of the new Vantage GT3 belonging to the Blackthorn Motorsport team at the Silverstone 500, which they did eventually finish considering that weekend was their first interaction with their new car since taking delivery of it from Prodrive earlier that week.

Despite testing recently at the circuit, neither guesting teams will be at Donington for this weekend’s opening two-hour affair as that honour is again left to the two full season entries from both Beechdean AMR and R-Racing.


With torrential rain affecting and eventually washing out Qualifying at Silverstone, earlier Free Practice times were taken to set the grid order with the #97 Beechdean Vantage GT3 of Andrew Howard and Ross Gunn claiming P4 within their Pro-Am class and the #27 R-Racing Vantage GT4 of Josh Miller and Seb Hopkins claiming P3 within their Silver Cup class.

Unfortunately, track limit issues blighted the running of the #23 car with the #97 car developing something of an unhealthy relationship with the guesting Inception Racing McLaren to move them along the order to eventually come home just off the overall podium in fourth whilst the #23 car would eventually recover to finish fifth in class.


These results see the #97 crew tied for second within the overall GT3 Drivers Championship, just 7.5 points behind the Silverstone 500 winning BMW but with a more consistent set of results over the three races so far. Within the GT4 class, the #23 cars early DNF in race 1 from Oulton Park plus a lowly points finish at Silverstone sees them in urgent need of points going into Donington as lying down in P11 within the overall GT4 Drivers table.


Early indications remain that Mother Nature should be upon our side this time around with warm and dry running forecasted over the private testing of Friday and well as the official session of both Saturday and Sunday for the expected thirty-four strong GT3/GT4 grid.

Photo credits – Teams / Jacob Ebrey
Wednesday, May 24, 2023 | Read more...
Strong running from the Aston Martin crews at British GTs Silverstone 500

Strong running from the Aston Martin crews at British GTs Silverstone 500


If Mother Nature provided the drama in Saturday’s Free Practice and Qualifying sessions ahead of the Silverstone 500, it would thankfully be the actual race that provided all the excitement as the British GT Championship raced out their third race at the home of British motorsport.

Four Aston Martin Racing powered crews joined the fray this time around as both the full season entries from Beechdean AMR and R-Racing were joined by the new Blackthorn Motorsport GT3 car and a guesting Century Motorsport GT4 Aston of old.


With race organisers having to set the grid to Sunday’s three hour race by times set by each driver within Free Practice 2, the starting order was always going to be a bit topsy-turvy in its natural order but for the #97 Beechdean Vantage GT3 of Andrew Howard/Ross Gunn and the #23 R-Racing Vantage GT4 of Josh Miller/Seb Hopkins, their own ‘getting down to business’ mentality from the off saw them neatly placed in P5 and P3 respectively in class.

All things ‘new’ from the #19 Blackthorn car of Claude Bovet and David McDonald meant that they were in for a baptism of fire as they got to grips with their brand-new Vantage GT3 having received it only days before the event. Similar would apply to the #21 Century Vantage GT4 crew of David Holloway and Bradley Ellis by the fact of their very limited running together this season for the #19 car to start at the back of the GT3 field in P24 and the #21 car in P38 out of a total grid size of forty-three starters.


From the torrential rains of Saturday to the humid warmth of an early May Spring Day of Sunday saw the race take the green flag with a dry and warming circuit with both the #97 and #23 cars eager to advance their positions at this very early stage with both Howard and Miller (respectively) behind the wheels.

With so many cars of track with an even wider diversity of driver talent and ability, it obviously wasn’t long before contact was made that left debris across the track at Club, bring out the Safety Car for the first time and that gave the teams the opportunity to swap out their starting Am drivers at an early stage of the race, mindful of course of each drivers 100minutes maximum driver time.


Losing fifteen minutes to that period, the #23 R-Racing car quickly came to attention of Race Control as Miller quickly lost several his ‘five lives’ for track limits – something that would even more quickly come back to bite the young duo once they had made their first driver change a little while later when Hopkins had to serve a Drive through Penalty.

A great battle was developing between Gunn in the #97 and the #70 Inception Racing McLaren as the two British GT and IMSA GTD rivals (Ben Barnicoat) battled things out for any of the top three places on track as the race progressed. 


By the end of the first hour, the #97 was leading the way for the AMR teams in P4 overall, with the #19 Blackthorn car hanging on (just) to the rear of the GT3 field but with the #21 Century Vantage GT4 car now having swapped with the #23 R-Racing car for position thanks to their earlier penalty.

Those positions improved again slight as the second Safety Car period was called, again for debris which negated the Inception cars then huge lead of 20 seconds to zero – which helped the #97 Beechdean car at least get back in contention with this guesting GT3.


Going into the final and whilst six crews would have to serve additional success time penalties after their performances last time out at Oulton Park, none of these were the #97 and #23 cars so both could just run their usual minimum pit stop time at the final scheduled stop.

Trouble for one came just into the final hour as Holloway was brutally nerfed off the track and into the tyre wall at the start of the Wellington Straight but he was at least able to continue with time lost recovering soon taken care of by a huge collision between a recovering GT4 car and a GT3 car through the Maggots complex – Safety Car no.3 immediately.


Thankfully and despite how it first appeared, both drivers were reported as being otherwise uninjured as a consequence after the Team Brit McLaren GT4 cut across the path of a charging #84 McLaren GT3 as the GT4 tried to return to the circuit after a spin of their own earlier.

That caution period unfortunately came 4-5 laps too early for Howard and Gunn to swap out for the final time as Howard was forced to follow the Safety Car until just thirty-eight minutes remaining. That left a 27-minute sprint to the flag with the #97 car still chasing an overall podium finish, as were both the Vantage GT4 crews in silver for the #23 R-Racing crew and the #21 Century crew in GT4 Pro-Am – and despite their early knock.


What the final Safety Car did leave us with was a dramatic race to the flag for a result that eventually saw the #97 cross the line less than half a second off the podium in fourth, but with the efforts of the one-off entered #21 Century car claiming a P2 finish in GT4 Pro-Am.

Thanks to their transgressions with track limits earlier in the race, the #23 car would finish P6 in class having had 30 seconds added to their post-race time for exceeding driver time with the #19 rounding off their inaugural AMR British GT event in P16 overall after also being hit with a drive through penalty for causing a collision just before the end of the race.


Thanks to the additional Championship points on offer at the end of the Silverstone 500, these results see the #97 crew tied for P2 in the GT3 overall table, third in the GT3 Pro-Am Cup and third within the GT3 Teams Championship.

As for the #23 R-Racing crew, an early DNF at Oulton Park and just three points from Silverstone sees them well down the order in P11 with six races still to come.

Next stop Donington Park at the end of the month.

Photo credits – Jacob Ebrey / D Gibson

Monday, May 08, 2023 | Read more...
Mother Nature plays her part in the Silverstone 500 Qualifying

Mother Nature plays her part in the Silverstone 500 Qualifying

 


Extra-ordinary scenes around the Silverstone Grand Prix Circuit yesterday as the British GT Championship’s blue riband event ended being royally washed out during their later qualifying sessions.

With forty-three cars being listed upon the entry list for Sunday’s Silverstone, a massive leap from the thirty-six-capacity field that competed within the opening two sprint rounds from Oulton Park last month, it would end up being Mother Nature again having the final word on who starts whereas the race organisers were forced to go back to the times set during Free Practice 2.


Four Aston Martin Racing powered teams feature within the colossal grid – two being full season entries from the #97 Beechdean AMR and #23 R-Racing teams with the #19 Blackthorn Motorsport joining into the fray a round late with their AMR Vantage GT3 and with an individual event run out for the Century Motorsport prepared Vantage GT4.

Private testing on Friday had placed the #97 car of Andrew Howard and Ross Gunn firmly within the top 5 in the GT3 Pro-Am class with the #23 car of Josh Miller and Seb Hopkins finishing the day at the top of the GT4 running order. For the #19 Blackthorn and #21 century cars, this was their first meeting this year so unsurprisingly they found themselves a little way off the pace going into Saturdays officially timed sessions.


With Free Practice times already having been set upon a wet track, the out laps into the first Qualifying laps were very much a tippy-toe circulation around the track as the rain continued to hammer down. Unfortunately for Howard, hitting a cross track section of surface water placed the #97 into a spin to nose into the concrete wall, causing both damage to the car and bring out the red flag for a second time.

From that point forward, the Qualifying sessions did not continue such were the track conditions leaving race organisers no choice but to revert to the last session when all cars and drivers did run to determine the grid positions.


That left the #97 Beechdean again the front AMR runner starting Sundays race in fifth overall (P4 in class) with the #19 Blackthorn GT3 car starting its first British GT race from the back of the GT3 pack in P24 whilst the GT4 field sees the #23 R-Racing car starting the three-hour race third overall and third in class with the #21 Century car P14 in GT4 and P6 in their Pro-Am class.


With morning warm up now over without incident upon a drying track, we can now look forward to the start of the Silverstone 500 three-hour race at 12:20hrs local.

Photo credits – Jacob Ebrey
Sunday, May 07, 2023 | Read more...
Silverstone welcomes four Aston Martins for British GTs Silverstone 500 this weekend

Silverstone welcomes four Aston Martins for British GTs Silverstone 500 this weekend

 


The third race of the 2023 British GT Championship will soon be upon us this weekend around the full grand prix circuit of Silverstone for its annual Silverstone 500 endurance event.

Having only opened their account just a month ago around the idyllic circuit of Oulton Park for their annual Easter Bank Holiday weekender, this weekends’ events will see the build-up to a three-hour race around the former wartime airfield site for an enlarged entry of forty-three cars.


At the opening round we also welcomed back both the R-Racing Aston Martin Racing Vantage GT4 team as well as the Beechdean AMR Vantage GT3 team as full season entries and this weekend will see that AMR number double both in total and in classes as we also welcome back an AMR team of old as well as a brand new one.

The one we know will be the Century Motorsport prepared AMR Vantage GT4 for drivers David Holloway and Bradley Ellis. Former full season entries themselves, they have been keeping their racing commitments fairly limited yet targeted of late but with Ellis never too far away in between as he is a regular figure within the R-Racing team, supporting their young drivers Josh Miller and Seb Hopkins.


Then we have the latest Aston Martin powered racing customer in Blackthorn Motorsport joining the family with their brand-new AMR Vantage GT3 for drivers Claude Bovet and David McDonald for their first event in a car that will feature just a temporary livery design for this round as they compete within the Silver Am GT3 category.

The two-hour long sprints of Oulton Park last month again proved to be something of a dramatic affair as a season opener with the #97 Beechdean car of Andrew Howard and Ross Gunn quickly finding their feet within race 1 for a P2 finish backed up with a P5 finish in the second race to get their 2023 account off to a good start.


The #23 R-Racing duo however would fall foul of early contact in race 1 to retire in the early stages of what was then a wet race having damaged their oil cooler, but they came back fighting in race 2 to finish just off the podium in fourth.

With one a half times more Championship points also on offer per class, this three-hour race also comes with conditions specifically designed to keep the engineering crews on their tip toes with both minimum and maximum driver times to contend with over an above any success penalties due after the last round at Oulton Park but obviously, with both Astons finishing just out of the top three after the last round, neither the #97 nor #23 cars are affected by this. 


Officially timed sessions will begin on Saturday with Free Practice ahead of four rounds of Qualifying sessions as each driver will set a time with the aggregated time being used to determine the grid for race start on Sunday at 12.20hrs local.

Photo credits – Teams / D Gibson / Jacob Ebrey
Thursday, May 04, 2023 | Read more...
Top of the GT4 Class for the Century Aston Martin Racing GT4 in Kuwait

Top of the GT4 Class for the Century Aston Martin Racing GT4 in Kuwait

 


Shamefully having to catch up again with the weekends news again leads us straight into offering our congratulations to the Century Motorsport team and crew for their tremendous class pole through to class win at the inaugural 24H Series Kuwait 12hrs event at the weekend.

Racing their distinctive black, orange and gold liveried Aston Martin Racing Vantage GT4 usually seen within the GT Cup and British GT paddocks of late saw their gentleman driver David Holloway return to the desert for another extended race format event having competed previously within the Gulf 12hrs event.


Competing again with driver coach Bradley Ellis and fellow GT Cup racer Adam Hatfield, the #429 car again ran a strong Qualifying run to claim the GT4 class Pole Position ahead of the Friday race, beating their BMW M4 ran team stablemate car to the front row of their three-car grid.


Here, we do have to admit that personal circumstance again kept us from the screen in support, but the #429 Aston came back through to lead the class with just two hours of the race remaining to claim a much-deserved class win under the floodlit Kuwait Motor Town Circuit. What lies in store for this crew and car within the 2023 season (if anything) is still subject to confirmation.

Well done to them.

Photo credits – 24H Series
Monday, December 05, 2022 | Read more...
Just one AMR Vantage competing within a solo 24H Series event this winter

Just one AMR Vantage competing within a solo 24H Series event this winter

 


With both the Gulf 12Hrs and 24H Series putting up four events between them within the Middle Eastern racing theatre throughout both December and early January next year, its somewhat sad to see that only one Aston Martin Racing powered team has made that long journey for any of those events.

Having competed in both the British GT Championship and GT Cup Series in recent seasons back home, Century Motorsport has again paved the way back east for gentleman driver David Holloway to go racing with his AMR Vantage GT4 in the forthcoming and inaugural 24H Series event in Kuwait after his last continental adventure with them at the rescheduled Gulf 12hrs event at the start of the year.


With business commitments then keeping Holloway away from the racetrack for much of the year, long standing co-driver Bradley Ellis has been kept busy within many a paddock this season as he guided (for example) the paring of Josh Miller and Jamie Day to their British GT GT4 Silver Cup success with the R-Racing team with their Aston Martin.

These two join forces with fellow GT Cup racer Adam Hatfield for the twelve hours of Kuwait, track action begins around the Kuwait Motor Town Circuit this Wednesday with the first of two private testing sessions before the race itself that will run from noon until midnight this Friday.


Whilst this will obviously be exciting for all at Century this week, this news is perhaps the beginning of a stark realisation that the AMR Vantage GT3 and GT4 platform is now upon something of a downward spiral in terms of competitiveness and with news of a possible ‘Evo kit’ remaining the biggest, darkest secret of all time, its perhaps unsurprising to see some teams/drivers usually directly associated with an Aston realign themselves to other brands over the winter in their never ending quest to remain competitive.

It has been noted that the Heart of Racing 24H Series Dubai 24Hr entry has been listed with an SPS prepared Mercedes AMG GT3 this time around (instead of their AMR Vantage GT4 of last year) as the AMG now appears to be the car of choice for Gray Newell moving forward in 2023!!


Albeit a differing venue and event, the goal for the Century team this week will be to beat their Gulf 12hr class pole position and P2 finish in class by the end of the Kuwait 12hr in what is scheduled to be a twenty car entry for the gold and black liveried #429 car.

Good luck to them!

Photo credits - Gulf 12Hr
Sunday, November 27, 2022 | Read more...
Just a few more races to see out 2022

Just a few more races to see out 2022


Yesterdays FIA World Endurance Championship’s Rookie test after the final round of that Championship at the Bahrain International Circuit on Saturday effectively saw the end of mainstream racing action this year with just a couple of events to help pass the time between now and the start of the 2023 season.

Six lucky drivers from around the world and from differing class/platform experiences enjoyed somewhat limited running between them in either the #98 Northwest AMR or #777 D’Station Racing AMR Vantage GTE’s with teenage Asian Le Mans/European Le Mans racer Finn Gehrsitz being the fastest of the guesting Aston Martin drivers in the morning session (with a lap time of 2:02:715) with Porsche Supercup/Carrera Cup racer Lorcan Hanafin being quickest in the afternoon session with a lap time of 2:02:717.


Racers Ryan Hardwick, Patrick Gallagher, Indy Dontjie and Jonathon Hoggard completed the AMR test programme under the watchful eye of WEC GTE Am class runner up and Northwest AMR crew member David Pittard.


Moving into the final weeks of the year, we sadly do not see any AMR representation within next weekend’s Macau Grand Prix but we should have two D’Station Racing AMR cars entered into the final round of the Super Taikyu Series from Suzuka the week later where the teams #47 Vantage GT8R chase their Class title before a welcomed return of the Century Motorsport team to the 24H Series with their AMR Vantage GT4.


There, drivers David Holloway, Adam Hatfield and Bradley Ellis compete within the new for 2022 12Hours of Kuwait before the year is rounded off with the first round of the GT Winter Series in Portimao where we expect one – maybe two AMR Vantage GT4’s from the PROsport Racing stable.


After that, it will be something of a wait before continuing rounds of the GT Winter Series before also the opening rounds of the GT New Zealand Series in January.

Photo credits - D'Station Racing / AMR / Prosport
Monday, November 14, 2022 | Read more...
Double success for the Aston Martin entries in British GT's Pro-Am class

Double success for the Aston Martin entries in British GT's Pro-Am class

 


Having made the heinous ‘crime’ of missing the latest round of the British GT Championship at Silverstone at the weekend, we best pull our sorry little backsides up and at least report on what the results were for the three Aston Martin Racing Vantage GT4 entries.

Yes, joining the full season entries of both Matt Topham and Darren Turner at Newbridge Motorsport and Josh Miller and Jamie Day at R-Racing was the return (for a one-off entry this season as far as we have been told) for the Century Motorsport AMR of David Holloway and Bradley Ellis.


With the two – one hour sprint races opening the season again over Easter weekend, had the #27 Newbridge Pro-Am entry enjoy a fantastic start to the season there with their first in Pro-Am win and then an overall GT4 class win that weekend.

That was added to by a debut podium for the R-Racing Silver Cup drivers during race 1 and a P5 in class to see out their first ever GT4 race together so confidence was high going into Silverstone for what was to be a completely different beast with a three-hour endurance race at the #Silverstone500.

Early pace for the two full season entries looked good over the two Free Practice sessions with the #23 R-Racing car second quickest in class over the two sessions with the #27 Newbridge car first in their class with the #21 Century car not too much further behind in third in GT4 Pro-Am.


With just a single race ahead, Qualifying was again determined by the aggregated time of both drivers to set the grid with Miller and Day again setting the fastest time of the Aston Martin powered teams to claim P3 overall in class with the Newbridge car starting P6 in GT4 and the Century car P11 (P1 and P2 respectively in Pro-Am).

Having only seen something of a tardy start for some of the GT3 runners up ahead, all three Astons would make it through the opening laps unscathed although each would encounter their own problems along the way over the course of this three-hour race.


For Topham and Turner, Silverstone would conclude in another overall GT4 class win, beating the otherwise speedy Stellar Motorsport Audi R8 GT4 of Sennan Fielding and Richard Williams by over thirty seconds by the fall of the chequered flag with the Century car of Holloway and Ellis coming home in P22 overall but P2 in GT4 Pro-Am whilst the R-Racing youngsters would come back just one position further back but a further lap down in P23 overall and P7 in class

With the official results of race 2 from Oulton Park still under appeal, no Championship points standings have yet been confirmed by the Championship until that process and subsequent success penalty levies applied to the Silverstone result is at an end.


The Championship now moves onto Donington Park at the end of May.

Photo credits – Teams / Jacob Ebrey
Tuesday, May 10, 2022 | Read more...
Holloway, Johnson and Ellis claim a class second at the end of the Gulf 12Hr

Holloway, Johnson and Ellis claim a class second at the end of the Gulf 12Hr


Many congratulations to the Century Motorsport team and drivers David Holloway, Piers Johnson and Bradley Ellis for ‘bringing home’ the first silverware of the year from the opening race of the 2022 season at the Gulf 12hrs last night.

Having already Qualified the Aston Martin Vantage GT4 onto the from row of the GT4 class at the start of the opening six hours of racing at Yas Marina, Abu Dhabi early yesterday morning, the #15 crew did what they could and what was needed of them to ultimately finish the six plus six-hour event second in class.

With Covid having done its best again to stifle the attendance in the weeks leading up to the event, fifteen cars ultimately took part with three cars within the GT4 Class.

Despite the low numbers in class but like any race, anywhere in the world – at first you must finish to have any chance of the spoils and that was a cruel fate that eventually took its toll on their sister #42 Century Motorsport BMW M4 GT4 entry and ultimately left the remainder of the race as a two-car fight between the #15 Aston Martin and the #23 Greystone McLaren 570s.

In hindsight, the deciding move came way back on the very first lap of the race as the #23 car took the class lead from the Aston Martin, a position that they would only be temporally relinquished during the longer, mandatory timed stops but also with a gap between them further exacerbated by an untimely puncture for Ellis just after the halfway mark of the opening six-hour race.


As the race continued, the gap between the McLaren and the Aston proved to be too much and the #15 lost a lap to the more dominating Greystone package as the Aston eventually came home twelfth overall and second in class.

Congratulations to them all and we look forward to seeing them again in what appears to have a hinted confirmation of an entry into the British GT Championship this season?

Next stop is a short trip across the border to Dubai and the 24H Series annual 24hr event there with four Aston Martins involved this time – two Vantage GT3’s from both TF Sport and PROsport Racing with a further two AMR Vantage GT4’s from both PROsport Racing and the Heart of Racing teams.

Photo credits – Gulf 12hr / Teams

Sunday, January 09, 2022 | Read more...
Class Pole position for the Century Motorsport AMR crew ahead of the Gulf 12Hrs

Class Pole position for the Century Motorsport AMR crew ahead of the Gulf 12Hrs


The #15 Century Motorsport Aston Martin Racing Vantage GT4 crew of David Holloway, Piers Johnson and Bradley Ellis certainly continued to make their intentions clear in today’s more formal sessions of the Gulf 12Hr by dominating Free Practice before going on to secure Class Pole ahead of tomorrows race.

Continuing their form shown during yesterday’s private testing had the golden Vantage GT4 hit the top of the class timing screen again during today’s first and third Free Practice with only a slight technical ‘hiccup’ blighting an otherwise faultless display during the middle session.


After that, it was straight into individual Qualifying sessions with their aggregated times deciding overall class starting honours between the three GT4 runners. First fastest in the first session for Johnson, followed by P2 for Holloway and rounded off with another P1 time for Ellis was enough for the #15 car to claim GT4 Class Pole position ahead of the start of tomorrows first six hours of racing.

All the action will be streamed live via the Series YouTube channel at 09:00hrs local which is four hours ahead of the UK and GMT.

Good luck to them.

Photo credits – Gulf 12hr / Team

Friday, January 07, 2022 | Read more...
Finally - engines roll at the start of the 2022 motor racing season

Finally - engines roll at the start of the 2022 motor racing season


After what has felt like an eternity but in reality has only been little over four weeks, it’s great to see and hear the engines of motor racing finally start to set up again for what will be another incredible busy season of racing.

Last out for any Aston Martin Racing customer team back in early December at the GT Winter Series opener at Portimao has this week various teams preparing themselves for the opening race events of the year as well as opening test sessions in preparation for their respective 2022 commitments.

Starting at the Yas Marina Circuit in Abu Dhabi has the Gulf 12Hr entry finally hitting the F1 circuit in Open Practice today ahead of their six plus six-hour event over the course of Saturday with David Holloway and his Century Motorsport prepared AMR Vantage GT4 leading the class by the end of today’s opening track action against their sister BMW M4 GT4 and Greystone’s McLaren 570s GT4 within the events fifteen car strong grid.

Back for some more of the same after his visit to the event back in 2019 with then an Optimum Motorsport prepared Aston Martin GT4, Holloway is this year joined by his two closest co-drivers in Piers Johnson and Bradley Ellis.

Getting fifty laps in during session 1 to finish P2 in class and another fifty-five laps in session 2 to lead their three-car class by nearly half a second puts them into a good place ahead of tomorrow’s three Free Practice sessions and individual Qualifying runs later in the day.

Also out and about on track this week has been the Heart of Racing team as they prepare to fly out to Dubai this weekend in time for their second Creventic Series entry in so many months at the Dubai 24.

Having sampled the 24H Series back at a fateful visit to Sebring where late gear box issues robbed them and their #423 AMR Vantage GT4 of a near certain class podium, drivers Gray Newell, Ian James, Alex Riberas and Roman de Angelis will reconvene in the desert next week to hopefully make amends within their eleven GT4 class field.

They will then be straight back and across the Atlantic in time for the IMSA WeatherTech Sportscar Champion Roar before the 24 event from Daytona just the weekend later.

The Heart of Racing car of course joins the Duel Racing with TF Sport and PROsport Racing AMR Vantage GT3 crews as well as the PROsport Vantage GT4 crews all as previously reported and who all remain on the events provisional entry list.

Then we have seen the American based Bsport Racing team out for some early test mileage at the Palm Beach Raceway in Florida after their GT3 and GTE exploits in both the UK and Bahrain late last year where Brian Putt and Kenton Koch are expected to return for another bash at the GT4 America as well as the GT America Series with a new for 2022 two car effort.

Finally and most recently, we have had the Uno Racing team out in force at their local Zhuhai Circuit today with both of their AMR Vantage GT3’s and GT4 for some early year mileage. Whilst it is not clear for which series they are entering this season – whether it be the GTSSC Series again or even the GT World Challenge Asia Series, we do still know that the team is listed upon the entry list (under David Pun’s Evisu Racing name) for the Asian Le Mans Series that kicks off in Dubai in just four week’s time.

Their last outing was at Macau where Pun secured class honours by the end of the two GT races around the infamously tight street circuit.

Their biggest struggle, like so many teams entered into all the early races of 2022 mentioned above will still be travel in and out of various countries due to CV19.

Fingers crossed for all of them.

Photo credits – Gulf 12hr / Social Media / Teams

Thursday, January 06, 2022 | Read more...