The Aston Martin Racing powered success of the weekend extended into the Iberian Supercars Series return to racing at their Iberian Festival meeting at the Ricardo Tormo Circuit in Valencia.

Twenty-eight GT4 based cars and crews featured within the now stand GT4 class and races of both the Supercars Iberian and Supercars Espana Series that ran concurrently again at weekend.

 

Within that healthy entry list, four were powered with an Aston Martin Racing Vantage GT4 or GT4 Evo at the event as they chased down podium successes within their available Pro, Bronze and Am classes.

The #28 Racar Motorsport AMR entry of Vasco Oliveira and Manuel Giao got things off to a flying start on Saturday by claiming their GT4 Bronze class pole position going into that race before converting that into a P2 result in class by the end of that 28 lap race whilst the GT4 Am class title leading #777 RV7 AMR of Rubens Vaquinhas and Mico Mineiro came through at the end to scoop a P2 visit to the podium for themselves.

 

Race two of the weekend on Sunday was an even productive affair with the #28 Racar crew this time claiming a class win from their P2 starting position on the alongside the #77 Racar GT4 Pro entry of Mathieu Martins and Anton Morsing who had put their non-finish in race one behind them to take the overall race win this time around.

They were joined on the podium by the #007 NGT AMR Vantage GT4 crew of Fernando Soares and Miguel Ferreira who claimed a P2 class podium after a disappointing within race one of their own in GT4 Am whilst the #777 crew this time had to make do with a P5 finish in class.

 

These results keep Oliveira at the top of GT4 Bronze in Iberian, but Vaquinhas does drop to joint second in GT4 Am whilst in Espana, Oliveira does likewise within that class but Vaquinhas drops to P3 in that table with a lot more ground still to make up for in Pro.

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The Iberian Supercars Series makes its long-awaited return to the race track this weekend after its extended summer break last saw them compete in early June.

Opening rounds from both Portimao and Jarama (plus a little non-championship visit to Vila Real in between), this weekend sees a twenty-eight-car strong GT4 grid make their way to Valencia’s Circuit Ricardo Tormo circuit for two more fifty minute – pit stop punctuated races.

 

That’s an increase in both overall numbers as well as those Aston Martin Racing powered entries as four such crews make the journey this time around. The #007 NGT AMR of Miguel Ferreira and Fernando Soares is one such new entry as they take out their 17A variant within the Am class.

The #777 RV7 Am classed entry of Ruben Vaquinhas and Mico Mineiro return looking to continue their good performance in class after their near maximum points first time out as will the #28 Racar Motorsport bronze classed entry of Vasco Oliveira and Manuel Giao who did something similar.

 

The #77 Racar Motorsport AMR of reigning champion Mathieu Martins alongside his new co-driver Anton Morsing, however, will need to pick up the pace a bit after securing just thirteen points in their first outing to already stand some thirty points in arrears.

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There was further class podium success for the two Aston Martin Racing Vantage GT4 powered teams within the weather curtailed GT4 Winter Series at the weekend but neither had it all their own way at Valencia.

With predicted strong winds effectively taking out all programmed track action at the Circuit Ricardo Tormo on Saturday, teams were left with just their Friday testing (if they were in attendance) or going in blind over the course of their race races on Sunday as organises were forced to race series within series in order to get through the race programme.

 

A third consecutive race weekend with the Gedlich Racing Series sees them moves along the coast to the Spanish circuit of Valencia for this weekend’s third round of their GT4 Winter Series.

Whilst the two Aston Martin Racing Vantage GT3 powered entries that ran in last weekend’s non-championship round of Portimao have moved on, we are back to the (so far) two AMR Vantage GT4 entries that will compete within the aptly named GT4 Winter Series again.

 

 

Daytona was not the only racetrack witnessing an Aston Martin Racing powered podium at the weekend as the rain in Portugal certainly continued to fall over the racetrack at Estoril as the GT4 Winter Series soldiered on with their second of a five round series there at the weekend.

Sometimes having to scrub test sessions on the grounds of safety, the grid of the Winter Series are certainly becoming accustomed to the art of wet weather racing and that was no different within their small but perfectly formed twelve car grid.

 

 

Both the Araujo Competicao and Mucke Motorsport AMR Vantage GT4’s were eventually known to be on track featuring no driver change within the #700 Thilo Goos/Mattis Pluschkell Mucke car whilst Bruno Periera this time stepped in for Goncalo Araujo alongside that of Frederico Peters in their new #007 Vantage GT4.

Again running a three-race format – an individual twenty-five-minute sprint race for each driver before ending the weekend with an hour long, pit stop punctuated endurance race saw the Mucke crew improve upon their results from the opening round at Portimao the week before with a P2 Club class result in race one for Goos followed by two class wins in races two and three.

 

 

There were also improvements for the Araujo team as Pereira secured an opening class win before Peters came home P5 in race two before ending the weekend with an overall P4 finish – P2 in their Pro-Am class.

The series now moves back to Portimao for a non-championship six hour race at that circuit in two weeks’ time before finding their way to Valencia over the 14/15th February.

Photo credits – Gedlich Racing

 

 

Congratulations to the Belgian based Comtoyou Racing Aston Martin Racing team and their #21 silver class driver pairing of both Jamie Day and Kobe Pauwels who yesterday secured the GT World Challenge Europe Sprint Cup Silver Cup Drivers Championship at the final round of the season from Valencia.

Having been part of the team’s dual Endurance Cup and Sprint Cup endeavours this season, the shorter and more frenetic rounds of the Sprint Cup have proved to be more to the young duo’s liking with a string of class wins over recent rounds for the #21 to seal their crown with Sunday’s finale still to come.

 

Forty GT3 cars and crews will be lining up for this weekend’s concluding round of the SRO GT World Challenge Europe Sprint Cup Series from Valencia with one Aston Martin Racing powered crew leading their way in class.

After previous rounds from Brands Hatch, Zandvoort, Misano and most recently from Magny-Cours, the #21 Comtoyou Racing AMR Vantage GT3 crew of Jamie Day and Kobe Pauwels enjoy a slender six points lead within their silver class championship going into this battle thanks to their double podium finish and pole position double in France last time out.

 

Some of the six Aston Martin Racing Vantage GT4 crews entered into last weekend’s fourth round of the Iberian Supercars Series saw their championship ambitions stutter slightly as their respective class competition found their form.

This time racing at Valencia, the six AMR’s from the Araujo Competicao, Racar Motorsport and Gianfranco Motorsport teams could only manage a pair of class podium finishes between them after the two fifty-minute races.

 

After something of a two-month interlude since their last round at Vila Real at the beginning of July, the Iberian Super Cars Series returns to the track of Valencia for its fourth round of the season with another sizeable entry of forty-five GT4 based entries.

Within their midst will also be another sizeable presence of Aston Martin Racing powered entries as the Araujo Competicao, Racar Motorsport and Gianfranco Motorsport teams return with their GT4 Pro, GT4 Pro-Bronze, GT4 Bronze and GT4 Am classes crews for this weekend’s two fifty-minute races.

 

An outstanding achievement of three back-to-back class wins within the GT World Challenge Europe Sprint Cup has suddenly thrusted the Comtoyou Racing team and their silver classed drivers into a championship winning possibility going forward into its final round of the season next month.

Starting off last time out in Misano, the #21 Aston Martin Racing Vantage GT3 partnership of Jamie Day and Kobe Pauwels finally got ‘all their ducks’ into order to end that weekend with their first, class win of the season to move into last weekend’s penultimate round from Magny-Cours full of momentum, buoyed as well by Day’s race winning exploits within another SRO GTWC Series down under on the weekend in-between.

 

An overall successful return to the Iberian Supercars Series for several of the Aston Martin Racing Vantage GT4 crews as they battled two challenging street circuit races at Vila Real at the weekend.

Originally listed as having up to seven AMR powered crews within the twenty-three strong entry, the Racar Motorsport team was still able to field four crews whilst the Gianfranco Motorsport team entered one of their own.

 

As expected, a multiple Aston Martin Racing powered participation can be looked forward to as the GT4 Winter Series and GT Winter Series each conclude their late 2024 / early 2025 business from the Circuit de Catalunya near Barcelona this weekend.

With just two AMR Vantage GT4 crews going the full season course within the appropriate GT4 Winter Series, other Vantage GT3 powered teams and crews have shown interest within the GT Winter Series with two teams showing willing again this weekend.

 

Whilst the FIA World Endurance Championship’s opening round of their 2025 will obviously take centre stage this weekend with their 1812km of Qatar, there are two further race meetings that we are aware of that have Aston Martin Racing powered entries within their midst.

Stateside of the Atlantic, we will have the next round of the World Racing League Series visit to Barber Motorsport Parkway in Alabama for another of their 8 plus 7-hour races for the multi-classed entry.