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  A smaller entourage of twenty-three GT4 powered crews of the Supercars Espana Series will make their way to Jarama in time for this weekend’s second round of the 2026 season having started at Portimao three weeks ago.
  
  Not the overarching Iberian Supercars Series this time around will be the primary cause for the reduced numbers from the and that has also been reflected with the number of Aston Martin Racing powered entries from the six at Portimao to just three this time around.

  
  

  

   

  At Portimao, the #722 Gianfranco Motorsport AMR Vantage GT4 entry of Roberto Faria and Joel Bergstrom had a total disaster after a fire aboard their car during an earlier session saw them not take any further part in the season’s two opening races. We understand that the team also lease the car from the Racing Spirit of Leman team and seeing that one of their cars was all but written off in the opening race of the GT4 European Series last weekend at Monza, the team and crew have this time elected to run in a Toyota.
  
  That leaves both the #28 and #77 Racar Motorsport entries for drivers Vasco Oliveira/Ivan Velasco in GT4 Bronze as well as Mathieu Martins/Anton Morsing within their #77 GT4 Pro class entry.

  
  

  

   

  The #52 Monteiros Competicoes AMR of Henrique Oliveira/Louis Leveau who will also be competing in GT4 Pro.
  
  Out of those three AMR powered runners, only the #28 crew enjoyed racing success with a P1 and P2 in class finish within that weekend’s two fifty-minute-long races.
  
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There was a more than a healthy haul of class podiums won at the weekend by the many Aston Martin Racing powered teams and crews after they completed the opening round to the Iberian Supercars Series from Portimao.

With six such AMR Vantage GT4 crews competing amongst the twenty-eight runners within last weekends Iberian Racing Festival, there was however not all cheer for some of those six as technical issues bit hard for some.

 

One of those crews who only saw the private testing sessions was the new #722 Pro classed Gianfranco Motorsport crew of Roberto Faria and Joel Bergstrom who unfortunately had to sit out the entire Qualifying and race double header after issues within their former Racing Spirit of Leman AMR Vantage GT4 Evo could not be fixed trackside.

Another casualty within the racing was the Pro classed entered AMR from the #77 Racar Motorsport for reigning champion Mathieu Martins with Anton Morsing after they failed to finish within the opening hour-long race, but they did recover to a P8 overall/P5 in class finish as both Pro class entered Astons got off to a poor start to this six-round season.

 

Success did come the way of the #777 RV7 team Am class entry of reigning champion Ruben Vaquinhas alongside his new co-driver, Mico Mineiro as they secured both a P1 and P2 finishes in class for their efforts.

The #28 Bronze class entered Racar Motorsport AMR Vantage GT4 Evo of Vasco Oliveira and new co-driver Ivan Velasco also scored a class double after they secured a similar great start to the new season with their P1 and P2 finishes respectively.

The #700 NGT crew of Fernando Soares and Miguel Ferreira also enjoyed early success within their new 17A variant of the Vantage GT4 after securing a race win P3 finish in Am before dropping back to P5 in class for race two. The #52 Monterios Competicoes AMR of Henrique Oliveira and Louis Leveau suffered a difficult introduction to the Pro class with their P7 and P9 finishes.

The next round of the season will be from Jarama in three weeks’ time.

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Its back to the historic racing venue of the Vila Real Circuito Internacional for the mainly GT4 powered crews competing within the third round of the Iberian Supercars Series with another large dose of seven Aston Martin Racing Vantage GT4’s amongst them.

Having opened their 2025 campaign at Portimao back in early April and then again at Jarama at the beginning of June, the SRO governed series has seen fluctuating entry numbers so far with nine Aston Martins at the opening round to just four examples next time around.

 

It was podium finishes all round for the Racar Motorsport team as their three crews got the success that they deserved in this weekend’s second round of the Iberian Supercars Series from Jarama.

Although three of four Aston Martin Racing Vantage GT4 powered crews entered amongst the thirty-three strong, multi-classed field, it was sadly not the same for the NGT Classic entered GTX car of Miguel Ferreira after his freshly re-liveried #700 car failed to finish within Sunday’s opener and for it not to appear within the second race of the weekend.

 

A somewhat reduced Aston Martin Racing powered entry of just four Vantage GT4 crews will take to the track of Jarama in central Spain this weekend for what will be the second round of the Iberian Supercars Series.

Having kicked off their 2025 season with a capacity grid in Portimao back in early April where we saw up to nine Aston Martins compete within the GT4/GTC based series, this weekend’s provisional entry list sees those four Aston’s compete within a thirty-three strong field.

 

Sunday turned out to be a good day for the only Aston Martin Racing runner within the Iberian Supercar Series visit to Jarama near Madrid as its driver pairing took a prize brace of class wins at the end of their two races.

Having only debuted their #007 Araujo Competicao prepared Vantage GT4 at the previous round at Portimao earlier in May, drivers Fernando Soares and Alvaro Ramos dominated their car strong GTX class after converting each of their own class Pole Positions in Qualifying to class wins after each forty-five-minute race to now lead their class with more than a healthy margin going into the summer break.

Latest Aston Martin Racing recruits, the Virage Group had their two brand new AMR Vantage GT4's out racing for the first time last weekend at the second round of the SRO GT4 Southern Series from the Jarama Circuit to the north of Madrid.

Only having received their two cars from the Prodrive factory just a couple of weeks ago, it appears that after juts two shakedown tests both at Donington and Valencia the team felt ready to make that step in and join the GT4 Southern Series at their first available opportunity.

Meanwhile, the German touring car series DMV GTC were at the Nurburgring for their fourth round of the season so far with its normal three race format over the weekend with a mix of two sprints and an hour long endurance race for their older iteration GT3 runners.



Again running in the series as a solo driver aboard his Schaler Motorsport prepared #12 Aston Martin Racing V12 Vantage GT3 was Timo Scheibner.

Qualifying P8 overall and P2 in Class, the German went on to claim a P5 overall finish and yet another class win in the first of the two GTC races before starting the second race from P7 overall and first in class. That race he went on to finish P6 overall and another class win.


In the longer Dunlop 60 race, Scheibner again Qualified P9 overall / P1 in class to finish just one place higher to expand his trophy cabinet still further with another class win.

The series returns to Hockenheim for the fifth round in early August.

Photo credits - DMV GTC