With twenty-six points being available from each race, it is the #72 GPA Racing AMR Vantage GT4 of Kevin Jimenez and Florent Grizaud who presently rest in third within their Am Class who retain the only championship possibility, but their will reply upon total disaster for the two crews ahead of them to overcome the forty-seven-point deficit to the class leaders.

Two podium finishes for the French crew at the final races of the parallel GT4 European Series in Barcelona (all under the watchful guidance of AMR factory driver Valentin Hasse-Clot) will have given the team the maximum incentive to succeed this weekend.

Eight AMR Vantage GT4 crews are listed upon the entry list for this weekend although some names have already changed from those posted by the series. With Hasse-Clot now confirmed to be on Aston Martin Racing duty with the Bullitt Racing team at the final round of the Le Mans Cup Series from Portimao, his and co-drivers Arnold Robin positions within the #13 Mirage Racing AMR Vantage GT4 have been filled with the return of Ruben Del Sarte and Paul Aural König who re-join forces having raced together with the French squad within the GT4 European Series at Hockenheim earlier this year.

Three further Astons are again entered by the AGS Events Racing team with another of their mid-season driver revised line ups, with two more from the Racing Spirit of Lemans team as well as another car from the GPA Racing team with so far just one driver being listed in Matthieu Casalonga.

Except for the Am class, the remaining Pro-Am and Silver classes within the series have not been threatened by any AMR powered team beyond that of Hasse-Clot and Romano Ricci who did in the early stages of the season to lead the Pro-Am class before two lowly points scores and injury to Ricci lost them that momentum.

As usual, both races will be streamed live via the series social media channels.

Photo credits – Teams / Series

This will form another silver ranked pairing although (presumably) comes at the cost of a lost entry within the AGS Events Racing team whom Del Sarte raced with (partnered by Tom Verdier) up until now.

We have already seen a ‘rationalisation’ of crews within the AGS Events team for their FFSA GT4 commitments with Del Sarte noted to have wanted to return to that team for the start of the FFSA GT4 Series for the start of that season.

Last season, Del Sarte partnered Tom Canning with the GT4 European Series whilst König comes from the Porsche stable in GT4, having only recently changed to the AMR Vantage GT4 platform in the German GT4 series with the Team Speed Monkeys team.

Photo credits – Team / FFSA / ADAC GT4 Germany / Social media

That takes the ADAC GT4 Germany AMR headcount to nine out of the provisional entry list of twenty-seven cars for this weekend’s two races.

Last time out proved to be successful for many of the AMR runners with the #48 PROsport car of Yevgen Sokolovskiy and Christopher Rohner securing a pair of P3 finishes in their Trophy Class, whilst the #7 Dorr car of Ben Dorr and Romain Leroux secured a Junior Class win in race 1 whilst the #69 Dorr car of Phil Dorr and Indy Dontjie and the #6 Racing One car of Tom Wood and Euan McKay secured P2 and P3 respectively in race 2.

Those results have Dontjie and P Dorr holding the overall lead by nine points over last season’s champions with both Wood/McKay and B Dorr/Leroux a bit further back in P3 and P4 whilst in the Junior Class, B Dorr and Leroux lie in second but some fourteen points behind. The Dorr Motorsport team also lead the Team’s Championship battle by twenty-nine points.

Mike David-Ortmann and Hugo Sasse complete the PROsport Racing line up with Nico Hantke/Simon Connor Primm and Sandro and Juliano Holzem complete the Dorr Motorsport quartet. 

Newcomers, Team Speed Monkeys see Paul Aurel-Konig finally swap over from his Porsche entry to partner Konstantin Lachenauer aboard their #99 car whilst Jacob Riegel partners fellow DTM Trophy racer Marc de Fulgencio aboard their #63 car.

Photo credits – ADAC GT4 / Teams

This news takes the AMR powered team headcount to nine cars featuring the four Dorr Motorsport, two Prosport Racing and the single Racing One AMR entries that have already contested rounds (with great success so far) from Oschersleben and the Red Bull Ring.

Team Speed Monkeys did declare prior to the start to the season of their involvement within the German Series but to date had yet to appear. As reported today, that was apparently down to the lack of available capacity within the Prodrive factory to deliver the team with what would be their third Vantage GT4 platform to alongside the two that are already used within the DTM Trophy Series.

Aurel-Konig will be partnered by GT4 European Series AMR racer Konstantin Lachenauer.

Photo credits – Team Speed Monkeys