In other news from the weekend, we saw an opportunist podium celebration come about for the #72 Rebel Rock Racing Aston Martin Racing driver of Frank DePew in the latest round of the IMSA VP Racing Sportscar Challenge from the Circuit of the Americas.

Racing as the sole AMR representative this time around within the two forty-five-minute races (both held on Saturday this time) saw the venerable American racer take third place within the Bronze Cup sub-class within his main GSX class in race one.

 

A small but perfectly formed pair of Aston Martin Racing Vantage GT4’s will be taking part in this weekend’s opening round of the World Endurance Championship from Eagles Canyon.

Racing another typical eight plus seven-hour race programme over the weekend sees the 89X Motorsport team pick up from where they left off last season despite their new season commitments within the IMSA Michelin Pilot Challenge Series.

They again race their #89 Vantage alongside the slightly newer Vantage GT4 from the Team Speed Syndicate team who placed their GTO class car at the head of today’s earlier testing session.

Like always, driver line up information is slightly harder to come by but both cars compete within a smaller than usual thirty-nine strong, multi-classed grid.

Photo credits – Team / social media

 

Five Aston Martin Racing Vantage GT4 powered crews are listed within the provisional entry list for this weekend’s final double header round of the World Endurance Championship as another trip to the Circuit of the Americas in Austin Texas has another eight plus seven-hour event awaiting them.

Again, it’s not always the case that those listed arrive or even drive what they say, but the entry list does list another two entries from the 89X Motorsport team with their #89 and #289 Vantage GT4’s whist the TLM Racing outfit list just one with their #172 clientele.

It was podium success for one of the Aston Martin Racing Vantage GT4 crews at last weekend’s World Racing League visit to Road Atlanta.

Supposedly, the event was supposed to have been another marathon eight plus seven-hour races for the sixty plus strong, multiple classed grid although Mother Nature within the State of Georgia soon had differing ideas as the series set about their second days action on Sunday.

This time featuring both of their AMR Vantage GT4’s, the 89X Motorsport team eventually ended Saturday’s longer race with a P2 overall finish for their #89 car, finishing just one lap down to the eventual winner after a whopping 263 lap run.

Their sister #289 AMR crew also finished within the overall top 10 a further three laps down whilst the #68 Speed Syndicate Aston eventually ended the race fifty-seven laps down (not sure if they were still running or not at that time, whilst the #909 Automatic Racing suffered a DNF.

Sunday’s second race was however, and almost complete washout as torrential rains arrived and made racing completely unachievable, even at the 30mph speeds cars were forced to reduce to when the storm from hit the circuit.

As a result, that seven-hour race was only able to achieve eighty laps here the #289 car was the highest Aston Martin finisher in P9, the #909 Automatic just behind in P11 and the #89 car P13. The #68 would eventually finish P20 overall within the GT) class, four laps down to the winner.

Photo credits – Teams / social media

 

The World Racing League is back in action again this weekend as the American Clubsport series moves onto the Michelin Raceway Road Atlanta in Georgia for another of their endurance double headers.

This time featuring an eight-hour race on Saturday ahead of a seven-hour affair on Sunday, another capacity mixed class grid of sixty crews make the trip this weekend with up to four Aston Martin Racing Vantage GT4 powered crews featuring amongst the expected twenty-nine strong GTO Class.

 

Four Aston Martin Racing Vantage GT4 crews are listed as entering next weekend’s return to Road America for the World Racing League Series as they run another of their multi-class events over the scheduled eight PLUS seven-hour races.

Whilst the two AMR powered entries from the Florida based TLM Racing team, another sees the return of another with one of their AMR cars that they recently sourced from New Zealand but also another fresh to our radar.