Heading into this weekend’s penultimate round of the French FFSA GT4 Series from Magny-Cours sees another change within the sole Aston Martin Racing Vantage GT4 powered entry from the Mirage Racing team.

For the opening two rounds of the season, the #5 Mirage Racing Am classed entry was again piloted by both David Levy and Jodie Sloss where the pairing had rekindled some of last years successes together with a pair of class podium finishes at Nogaro before winning the class in both races at Dijon-Prenois.

 

At the next round from Spa Francorchamps in June, Levy suddenly transferred over to the #24 JSB Competition Porsche 718 Cayman GT4 leaving Sloss to see what quickly become a thorough forgettable event alongside Nicolas Siebenschuh. Following an unseen incident with another car within the pit lane for Sloss, that sadly saw the #5 car sidelined for the remainder of the event with Siebenschuh never getting a competitive run out in the car.

 

The entry list for this weekend’s trip to Magny-Cours is now out and we again see a return of the Sloss/Levy combination but not within the Mirage Racing AMR Vantage GT4. Whilst they will race within the team’s #5 Porsche 718 Cayman GT4 for the first time, the team’s #7 Aston Martin Racing powered entry will be driven by the series debuting crew of Grant West and Alex Bachoura – again within the Am class.

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Rounding off our racing excitement for the weekend will be the (sadly) sole Aston Martin Racing Vantage GT4 powered crew competing within the second round of the French national FFSA-GT4 Series from Dijon.

Having done so well together as a package last season, David Levy and Jodie Sloss again fly the AMR powered flag together with the French based Mirage Racing team ahead of this weekend’s two one-hour races.

 

At the traditional seasonal opener from Nogaro, the #5 powered crew enjoyed two quick trips to the podium after they secured themselves both a P2 and P3 Pro-Am class finish for their efforts.

This weekend sees a repeat of that two-race format over the weekend with track action starting on Thursday with private testing.

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There may only be one Vantage GT4 crew within this full season’s French FFSA GT4 Series, but it was still a podium double straight out of the box for the Aston Martin Racing powered crew at this weekend’s opening round from Nogaro.

With the #5 Mirage Racing team again fielding the Am classed pairing of young Scot Jodie Sloss alongside the more mature Frenchman David Levy, this weekend’s opening round commitment first took them into downtown Nogaro for the series annual pilgrimage through the town with a meet and greet between the drivers, teams, race fans and local residents.

 

Delaying the race programme to include races over Easter Sunday and Bank Holiday Monday, the #5 pairing basically took off from where they had left off together last season to pedal identical qualification positions to one another – P13 overall out of a grid of twenty-seven cars and P3 in class.

Sometimes notoriously cold and wet at Nogaro for the Easter opener, this time around it was clear blue skies and sunshine on Sunday for the season opening one hour race where the race start passed off relatively quietly until two spinning Alpines brought out the Safety Car for the first time after early gains for Sloss.

 

Swapping over at the halfway mark, apart from one short Full Course Yellow for another car in the gravel, it was a relatively clean run in to the flag for Levy as they and Mirage Racing clocked up a season opening P2 in class finish – P7 overall.

Race two on Monday ran under identical conditions but with starting drivers reversed for all this time around and again, early contact between cars would bring out the Safety Car with another incident just before the pit stop window hampering the progress for Levy.

Sloss would eventually get her turn behind the wheel again and unable to progress himself up the order, she (and Levy) had to make do with an Overall P19 finish but still a P3 podium finish in class.

The next round to the season will be from Dijon-Prenois in mid-May.

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The #5 Mirage Racing Aston Martin Racing Vantage GT4 of David Levy and Jodie Sloss will apparently be flying the AMR flag solo after all this weekend as they have just been confirmed as the sole Vantage GT4 entry within this weekend’s FFSA GT4 opener from Nogaro.

Gone has their sister Pro-Am winning car of last season for drivers Stanislav Safronov and Aleksandre Vaintrub but still leaving a twenty-seven multi-classed entry across all classes (except for silver again) across six manufacturers.

 

Levy and Sloss were only recently confirmed as giving the French national GT4 series another go over the five round, ten one-hour long race season starting this Bank Holiday weekend in Nogaro.

 

Track action will begin on Saturday with two Free Practice session before moving onto both Qualifying and Race 1 on Sunday and Race 2 on Monday.

If the recent testing shots were also anything to go by – we expect a change to the previous livery colour scheme too.

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Great to see the first Aston Martin Racing powered entry confirmed today within the French national FFSA GT4 Series as both David Levy and Jodie Sloss return for a second season together within their #5 Vantage GT4.

Having debuted last season, the young Scot came with limited GT4 racing knowledge having only competed with a part GT Cup Championship season with the then Forsetti Motorsport team before turning her attention to France.

 

Supporting the start of Speedweek alongside the British GT Championship from Spa Francorchamps this weekend will be the French based FFSA GT4 Series and their modest twenty car entry for their third round of the season.

Since scaling back from including a silver graded class within their otherwise Pro-Am and Am classes at the end of last season, entry numbers have obviously fallen slightly as the faster grade of driver was forced to look elsewhere in Europe.

 

No surprises with the Aston Martin Racing powered entries for the second round of the French FFSA GT4 Series this weekend with two Mirage Racing Vantage GT4 Evo entries confirmed for Dijon-Prenois.

It was a similar case for the opening round of the season from Nogaro that saw the previous announced Pro-Am #7 entry of Stanislav Safronov and Alexandr Vaintrub return for another attempt at their class alongside the later announced #5 Am pairing of David Levy and Jodie Sloss.

 

Two GT4 based series rounded off a compact but perfectly formed quartet of motor racing activity this weekend for the many Aston Martin Racing powered contingents within them.

Over at Nogaro, the French FFSA GT4 Series opened its 2025 account with another pair of hour-long races for what will be this year a reduced entry with the series this time only allowing both Pro-Am and Am class entries.

 

The series decision last year to dispense with their silver class of entry has hit the French based FFSA GT4 Series hard in terms of overall entry numbers for this season’s six round affair.

Kicking off again this weekend from Nogaro, the series will witness just a sixteen strong entry for the opening two races of the season but at least there are two Aston Martin Racing Vantage GT4 contenders from the Mirage Racing team within their midst.

 

With just over fifty days still to go before the start of the FFSA GT4 Series season, the first Aston Martin Racing powered team has just been confirmed with a large degree of familiarity about the package.

Back in their familiar Mirage Racing AMR Vantage GT4 Evo sees Stanislav Safronov and Aleksandre Vaintrub return to the series for another attempt at the Pro-Am title having come up a little short last season in a year that they competed in both the outgoing and incoming variants of the Vantage platform.

 

The second round of the French FFSA GT4 Series takes a little knock this weekend as just twenty-two cars with three Aston Martin Racing Vantage GT4’s amongst them travel down to Ledenon.

The opening round of the series from Nogaro back in late March saw both the Mirage Racing and Racing Spirit of Lemans AMR teams enter two cars apiece but this weeks provisional entry list for round two shows two from the RSLM team and a solo entry from the Mirage team. That’s mainly come about from their previous second car just getting some race mileage in before the start of their own GT4 European Series commitments the weekend after!

 

Like their sister SRO series running at Oulton Park this weekend, the French FFSA GT4 Series also gets its 2024 endeavours under way this weekend with a similar Easter weekend affected two race programme from Nogaro.

Within this series, there has sadly been a distinct drop off in entry levels as across the board as even three or four former Aston Martin Racing powered teams have gone to seek challenges elsewhere this season.

 

It was the first day back of a new season for both the British GT Championship and FFSA GT4 Series yesterday as each prepared themselves for their disjointed season opener because of the Easter weekend at both Oulton Park and Nogaro respectively.

Up in the north of the UK, the British GT Championship again welcomed another healthy grid of a new equal GT3/GT4 split as this time five crews would be competing within both new and old(er) Aston Martin Racing powered machinery.

 

Despite a change in arrangements over the preceding weeks, there will still be four Aston Martin Racing Vantage GT4’s at this weekend’s opening round of the French FFSA GT4 Series from Nogaro.

Whilst we first thought that we had a clean two by two entry for both the Mirage Racing and Racing Spirit of Leman teams, later changes has seen the former Yves Lemaitre/Vincent Beltoise entry swap from the Mirage Aston Martin Racing Vantage GT4 entry to that of an Alpine with another team.