The central and eastern Europe based GT Cup Series also race out their penultimate round to their 2025 season this weekend as they visit Brno in the Czech Republic for another dose of sprint and endurance-based GT racing this weekend.

For this fifth round to the season, the Janik Motorsport Aston Martin Racing Vantage GT4 Evo pairing of Petr Koukola and Vaclav Janik will again be in attendance with their #73 car as the former will again take on the solo driven sprint rounds with Janik (or both) competing within the longer endurance race.

A much quieter race weekend coming up with what would be taking our fancy with just three main series featuring a sole Aston Martin Racing powered Vantage GT3 or GT4 within their midst.

Starting with the farthest away from us will see a sole AMR Vantage GT3 takes its place within a fourteen-car line up for this weekends fourth round of the GT World Challenge Australia as the #1 Volante Rosso car this time features a revised driver line up for their visit to Sandown Park.

Joining the Pro side of the previous line up in Liam Talbot will be the young British racer Jamie Day who now apparently replaces Declan Fraser for the remainder of the season after his best finish to his GT3 based GT World Challenge Europe season last weekend with a double podium visit and class win (alongside Kobe Pauwels) in the Sprint Cup Series.

The reason for the swap is unclear with the series itself referring it as a ‘withdrawal’ of Fraser from the crew after their good start top the season from Phillip Island has somewhat waned over recent rounds. Day, of course, featured within the teams 12Hrs of Bathurst GT3 entry alongside Mateo Villagomez and Jaylyn Robotham earlier in the year as well as another entry into the series last season that failed to materialise on race day thanks to ongoing technical issues that rounded off that season’s efforts.

They will run their usual two race format.

Next there is the fifth round of the Super Taikyu Series from Autopolis in Japan where the #777 D’Station Racing AMR Vantage GT3 crew of Satoshi Hoshino, Yuta Kamimura and Tomonobu Fujii again take the wheel of their ST-X entry.

Last time out at Sugo at the start of the month saw a near lights to flag race win for the trio and all will be hoping for more this time around after that result lifted the team up to fourth in the overall Championship with these three rounds remaining.

This will be another five-hour race starting at 11:00hrs local.

Then finally, we also have the ESET Cup or GT Cup Series as its now referred to as and their fifth round of an eight-round season with their latest collection of sprint and endurance races from Most in the Czech Republic.

Last time out in the series should have been from Poznan but that was cancelled at the eleventh hour by the series although we did learn that the team did still compete at an event of some description from the venue.

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Friday saw the Janik Motorsport team continue their GT Cup Series success with another endurance race class win for the Aston Martin Racing Vantage GT4 Evo.

This time racing at the Lausitzring at the end of a back-to-back race weekend last time out where the #73 car of Vaclav Janik and Petr Koukola secured a GT4 class P2 result at the end of that race within a race format from the Slovakia ring.

 

It was to be another class podium finish for the Czech based Janik Motorsport team as they competed with a race within a race as the GT Cup Series competed at the Slovakia Ring yesterday.

Being featured as just a three-hour endurance race, we were somewhat perplexed to see the #73 Aston Martin Racing Vantage GT4 Evo of Vaclav Janik and Petr Koukola being listed as a DNF within that three-hour race. Subsequent news from the series confirmed that the #73 and a couple of others that had only competed within the first hour as part of the sprint commitment rather than this elongated endurance round.

 

The two series operating with very similar names are both back in action this weekend as the former European ESET Cup – now called the GT Cup Series is back in action from the Slovakia Ring whilst the UK based GT Cup Championship is also back in action, this time from Snetterton.

For the European based series, this will be their second round of the season which will again see the Czech based Janik Motorsport Aston Martin Racing Vantage GT4 Evo within their expected fourteen strong multi-class entry for what is listed as a three-hour round.