Thanks to George Miedecke for sharing these latest images of their freshly constructed Aston Martin Racing V12 Vantage that he shook down at Sydney Motorsport Park yesterday ahead of any decisions of returning to the Australian GT Championship.

Previous post is available HERE



Photo credit - G Miedecke

This naked Aston Martin Racing V12 Vantage GT3 is the latest of Prodrive's creations (but not the newest) to hit the tracks having been only just pieced together this month over in Australia.

This is chassis #39, an acquisition made by Andrew and George Miedecke nearly a year ago and at the same time as another GT3 was supplied via the Miedecke Stone Motorsport team to fellow Australian John Kaias - which is itself another car that we have yet to see!


Seen here in its semi constructed state going for a dyno test this week, this GT3 will debut/shakedown at this weekends New South Wales Racing Championships event from Sydney Motorsport Park in the hands of George Miedecke. After that it is hoped the team can make a decision after whether or not to enter the car at that circuits round of the Australian Endurance Championship later in the year.

Having gloried at the first round of the Australian GT Championship earlier this month with three top step podiums as well as a third, it was back down to earth for the #67 Aston Martin Racing V8 Vantage GT4 crew as they embarked on their first round of the Endurance Championship.

Racing at Australia's newest motor racing circuit at The Bend Motorsport Park near Adelaide, the driving crew would always be slightly on the back foot compared to their GT4 class opposition as the weather made a dramatic impact upon race proceedings.

Have had a full day of testing at the circuit on Thursday under what appeared to near 'normal' Australian weather, the first of Friday's Free Practice would descended into chaos as a sizeable rain storm deposited an extra-ordinary amount of rain upon the circuit forcing many to curtail they practice and setup plans. For the #67 crew that amounted to just two laps ahead of Saturday's Qualifying.

The second round of the Australian GT Championship sees Jeremy Gray reunited with his old driver coach, Andrew Miedecke when the series hits the country's newest racetrack at The Bend Motorsport Park in South Australia next weekend.

Having opened his GT4 racing account last early year alongside Miedecke in the New South Wales Motor Racing Championships in the car that Miedecke supplied him via Academy Motorsport in the UK, the part time saloon/ part time GT4 driver came away from the opening round with three class wins and a third to lead the fledgling GT4 championship.


Having been a regular entry alongside son George in the Australian GT Endurance championship a couple of seasons ago, the Miedecke's have unfortunately been diverted from their racing desires in order to concentrate on their family businesses that pays so its good to see one or the other back at any racetrack doing what they love.

Whereas the first round was a series of short sprint races, the second round equates to a 500km enduro across the two days of racing - hence the two driver requirement with the second race blending into an evening finish.


Friday, April 13

15:35 – Practice (60mins)
Saturday, April 14
12:30 – Driver A Qualifying (30mins)
13:15 – Driver B Qualifying (30mins)
17:00 – Race Part 1 (24 laps)
Sunday, April 15
10:40 – Race Part 2 (44 laps)

Photo credits - Australian GT / Miedecke Stone Motorsport

After a heavily delayed start for Race 2 of the Australian GT Championship support programme this morning saw GT4 racer Jeremy Gray claim his second class win of the weekend.

Having already seen his qualifying pace count for nothing on Thursday when his Bilstein liveried Aston Martin Racing V8 Vantage GT4 was found to be underweight, he second start from the rear of the 31 car grid saw the #67 car snatch a last lap win over the (till then) leading BMW M4 at the last corner.


“I actually got held up at the start where we started at the rear of the grid. (Then I) had to really play it smart with the traffic and then when the leaders came through" said Gray. "It was really messy at the last corner of the final lap where I seized the opportunity to slip past the Xavier West BMW for the GT4 class win.”

Australian GT GT4 debutant Jeremy Gray certainly did things the 'hard way' at the opening round of the 2018 Australian GT Championship from Albert Park earlier today.

Racing his Bilstein suspension supported former Academy Motorsport Aston Martin Racing V8 Vantage GT4 on the national stage for the first time as part the Formula 1 support programme, Gray originally qualified his #67 car on provisional class pole in Q1 and was again the fastest GT4 in Q2 before being excluded for being adjudged as being under weight.


Despite having to start from the rear of the 30 car grid (and sadly without the benefit of any race footage being presently available) Gray went on to finish the first of a four sprint race programme over the weekend as the GT4 class winner in 23rd position overall.

The race finished two laps early under a Safety Car due to an earlier accident with a Ferrari GT3.

Photo credits - Australian GT

Former Australian Ute racer Jeremy Gray has confirmed the entry of his new Bilstein sponsored Aston Martin Racing V8 Vantage GT4 in the Australian GT Championship for 2018.

Having secured the former Academy Motorsport car from Miedecke Stone Motorsport early last year, Gray has undertaken several national class races acclimatising himself with the car alongside Andrew Miedecke.

Globally rekindling the association between the two brands last seen in Europe on the affectionately named V12 Vantage GT3, Gray said “We’ve had it over here for the last 12 months just testing and getting familiar with the car, Bilstein has come on board, so the car looks quite good at this stage, and Bilstein is right behind it".

Australian based Miedecke Stone Motorsport are in the recruitment market looking for an experienced race mechanic to help build various fine tin top race cars for the team as well as their brand new Aston Martin Racing V12 Vantage GT3!

Chassis #39 was acquired by the team at the mid way point of last year alongside another customer bought GT3 car, with their car being intended to be run by them at the 2018 Bathurst 12hour event.

Whilst we do not yet know where this car will be run in 2018, one thing for sure is that their new GT3 will be the last AMR V12 Vantage GT3 to be built even though the last V12 chassis has already left the Prodrive factory!

Putting today's new out of Paris to one side, elsewhere in the world has seen #TeamAMR kick off 2018 with a brace of podiums in South Africa and the re-emergence of our friends down under.

Charl Arangies and his Stradale Motorsport team kicked off their opening rounds of their national Extreme Supercars Series two weeks ago with two lights to chequered flag overall race wins aboard their former Motorbase Aston Martin Racing V12 Vantage GT3. This is their first year aboard the AMR having stepped up last year from a Lamborghini.


Meanwhile and over in the USA last month, Canadian based GT Racing were again out with their former PFL Motorsport V12 Vantage GT3 at the PBOC Motorsport Winterfest event at the Sebring International Raceway where father and son duo Marc and Louis-Philippe Montour extended their collection of silverware for their efforts

Competing in two sprint races and a six hour night enduro, the duo collected class gongs for P3 and P2 in class for each sprint race respectively before claiming top class honours in the night race.


Over in Queensland, Australia and not race meeting related we saw Miedecke Stone Motorsport out for the first time this year (yesterday) shaking down their two V12 Vantage GT3's after their winter rebuilds which sees their chassis #11 (the white car) being listed for sale whilst final deals are put into place for their remaining GT3/GT4 machinery within their domestic Australian GT series.

Photo credits - social media

Perusing the classifieds last night quickly led to some frantic social media communication with some around the other side of the world in order to dispel our initial fears.

Listed on the Racecardirect.com web site this week were two Aston Martin Racing cars from Miedecke Stone Motorsport - a team who have taken something of a step back from competitive motorsport in 2017.

Thankfully George Miedecke confirmed late last night that the sale of two of teams four cars are being listed for sale as a simple rationalisation of asset before final decisions on prospective plans for 2018 are committed to. The team retains two V12 Vantage GT3's.

Being listed is the teams number #11 chassis - fully rebuilt and upgraded since its third place result last time out at the 2016 Australian GT finale at Highlands Park in New Zealand. The car had been listed for sale before before being withdrawn for its rebuild.

Full listing details can be found HERE


The other listing is for what we believe to be the teams last acquisition, a V8 Vantage GT4 used by Andrew Miedecke in two New South Wales Motor Racing Championship events.

Details of that listing can be found HERE

We understand that the father and son team had elected to take a step back in 2017 to concentrate on their family businesses in Australia - something that makes perfect commercial sense considering the raising cost of motorsport. We hope to see them out on track again somewhere soon.

With the publication of the latest provisional entry list last night for next February's Liqui-Moly Bathurst 12Hr event, we see that the sixty cars listed do not yet include any Aston Martin runners.


We have been expecting local team, Miedecke Stone Motorsport to enter at least one of their AMR V12 Vantage GT3's into the Pro class and had heard just a few weeks ago that one car was already 2/3rds filled.


We have also enquired with R Motorsport in regards to any continuation in the event with any of their AMR GT3 or GT4 platforms to which they could not confirm (at the time of asking two weeks ago) either way.


We understand that the entry book will remain open over the course of today during which the event promoter also expects a handful more late entries.


Provisional entry list can be viewed HERE


Fingers crossed!!

Earlier today European time will have seen Australian Aston Martin GT racer George Miedecke hit the dance floor along with his professional dance partner all in aid of of a local charitable event against cancer.

Proud to describe himself as six foot six inches - not six foot five inches, Miedecke joined a group of nine other local business people and personalities from New South Wales at the Stars of The Hastings Dance for Cancer event.


Incredibly, across the nine couples competing a near whopping $88,500.00 Aus has been already raised for this worthy cause.

Well done to all!

Today sees the start of the 2017 Challenge Bathurst event from Mount Panorama with three Aston Martin Racing platforms now due to participate.

Used by many as valuable preparatory track experience of the circuit before the Liquid Moly 12 Hours of Bathurst in early 2018, this weekend's entry list sees tiptop racer cum GT convertee, Jeremy Gray joining the fray with his #67 AMR V8 Vantage GT4 alongside the Miedecke Stone Motorsport's Vantage GT3 and GT4 which the father and son dup will share.


Andrew Miedecke and Jeremy Gray have already raced together this year in their local New South Wales Motor Racing Championships in what was formally an Academy Motorsports car together with Andrew taking class honours first time out in their recently acquired N24.

George Miedecke is also listed to attend in the team's other V12 Vantage GT3 car as he works to finalise the team's plans to race in the 12 Hours of Bathurst in the Pro/Pro class with possibly two cars although the GT3's attendance is not yet confirmed.

All three AMR's will see track action over both Saturday and Sunday with live timing available HERE

Photo credits - MSM

Visiting Australian Mal Sandford did himself proud at the weekend by earning himself the Driver of the Day Award at the penultimate round of the Britcar Endurance Championship race from Silverstone at the weekend.

Racing for the first time in the UK, the now Portuguese resident shared his pseudo AMR factory liveried Sterling Green and lime V8 Vantage GT4 with Clio Cup racer Ben Seyfried under the watchful eyes of those at EDF Motorsport. Finishing fourth in class in their first time out together and by improving by over ten seconds per lap over the course of the event was enough to earn this highly passionate AML fan that accolade.

Hope to see Sandford back in the UK soon.

Photo photos of the car and drivers can be found HERE

Having sat out most of the 2017 season, father and son racing duo Andrew and George Miedecke are planning on a simple return to racing life over the next few weeks with visits to both Bathurst and Phillip Island.

With Andrew having contented himself with a couple of entries into their local New South Wales Motor Racing championships (with some success it must be added) and George more recently at an Australian tin top endurance event, both are listed as entries into the 2017 Challenge Bathurst event on the infamous street circuit later this month.

Both of the Miedecke Stone Motorsport's AMR GT3 and GT4 cars have been listed within the Supersprint Group D field at the event that starts November 16th although George only mentioned that their latest Vantage N24 acquisition as being entered so we will wait and see what happens there.


After that however, George has confirmed that both of the team's GT3 and GT4 are entered into the Island Magic racing club event at the Phillips Island circuit at the end of November as the team readies themselves for the pinnacle Australian GT event back at Bathurst in February 2018.

Last we heard was that just one of the team's AMR V12 Vantage GT3's was 2/3rd's confirmed although they hoped to enter a second GT3 as well as a GT4.

Photo credits - MSM / NSWMRC

Joining the Britcar Endurance regulars at the series penultimate round at Silverstone this weekend will be another Aston Martin Racing V8 Vantage GT4 from slightly further afield.

The #10 EDF Motorsport entered car is a car that started its racing life over in Australia and was to have been raced at the 2017 Bathurst 12Hr event as well as rounds within the Australian GT Series with the Miedecke Stone Motorsport team had sufficient drivers been found for it.


Purchased and owned by friend of the MSM team, Australian aviation businessman Mal Sandford both the car and owner have since relocated to Portugal where they have competed in a number of events across all across Europe although we believe that this is their first race in the UK. At previous events Sandford has run under the coaching of those at R Motorsport and driver coaches like Markus Lungstrass.


Joining Sandford in the car for the night races will be professional driver/coach and somewhat of a film star Ben Seyfried!!

Joining them from the #TeamAMR family will of course be the full Britcar season entry from Whitebridge Garage featuring again Chris Murphy and Matt George.


Photo credits - MSM / EDF Motorsport / Mirpuri 

Just a couple of weeks after taking delivery of their latest Aston Martin Racing V8 Vantage GT4 acquisition, Australian based Miedecke Stone Motorsport scored their first racing podium in the car this weekend.

Having sourced this early iteration of Vantage GT4 from somewhere in Asia (they are not saying where) a couple of weeks ago, Andrew Miedecke tested the then multi-coloured car at the Queensland Raceway in readiness for Round 7 of their state New South Wales Motor Racing Championship event from their local Sydney Motorsport Park track.


Its the second time this year that Miedecke Snr has competed in the state championships, last time out was back in May when he shared a similar Vantage GT4 (which they had secured on behalf of a client) with tiptop racer Jeremy Gray.

Having elected to sit out the entire Australian Endurance Championship this year, recent events are being to show the beginnings of a ramping up from the team in readiness for next years Bathurst 12Hr event where the team hope to enter two V12 Vantage GT3's as well as their V8 Vantage GT4.

Photo credits - MSM

George Miedecke earlier confirmed that he and the Miedecke Stone Motorsport team shall indeed skip next weekends Sydney Motorsport Park's opening round of the Australian Endurance Series.

Despite hoping to compete and defend their 2016 winning achievement it appears that factors unknown have prevented this.

George did however confirm that his father Andrew shall be out racing again in a V8 Vantage GT4 in a few weeks time

From the outset of the 2017 Australian GT season we have known that the New South Wales based Miedecke Stone Motorsport team would only be scheduled to compete in their 'local' race of the Australian Endurance Championship at Sydney Motorsport Park.

Twelve months ago the father and son duo won (quite deservedly) the Sydney101 race with their yellow, white and black #95 Aston Martin Racing V12 Vantage GT3 and with the 2017 round just two weeks away we are still awaiting confirmation of the teams entry.

We did see several weeks ago that George Miedecke had suffered a painful looking ankle injury that would at least delay his training programme leading into the race but for the last 4-6 weeks information flow from the team has been somewhat limit.


We are also keen to learn from Miedecke Stone of more news associated with the influx of AMR Vantage GT3 and GT4 platforms into Australia for their blossoming national GT racing calendar. We saw just a few weeks ago of the Australian GT organisers agreeing with the SRO to allow SRO homologated GT4 platforms to race within the main GT events rather than the Trophy races at present.


We are already aware of MSM importing a number of AMR V8 Vantage GT4's into the country as well as increasing the number of AMR V12 Vantage GT3's to five cars so as a Full Partner AMR team, MSM are heavily involved with the promotion of the AMR marque.

We will ave to wait and see what happens…………!!

Photo credits - MSM

Instead of contesting the opening round of this years Australian Endurance Championship this weekend, Andrew Miedecke is helping one individual move up to GT based racing in on of their recently acquired Aston Martin Racing V8 Vantage GT4's.

Having acquired two AMR Vantage GT4's for clients from Academy Motorsport back in March Miedecke senior took Ute and Production car racer Jeremy Gray for an early spin in one of those cars whilst that owner was deciding which series to run the car in. It was expected to see it in that GT4 race within the Australian GT Trophy Championship that started last month but that wasn't to be.


We understand that over this weekend, both Miedecke and Gray will be running the car within the New South Wales Motor Racing Club Championship event that is taking place at their 'local' Sydney Motorsports Park circuit. That shall see the AMR V8 compete against older generation Porsche and Audi GT3's amongst others more 'native' models.

With Miedecke Stone Motorsport actively promoting the Aston Martin Racing V8 Vantage GT4 in Australia we expect to see them enter (with clients) other State series as they bolster their own collections of such cars to run in those and other National and International Series.

Photo credits - MSM