It’s been a productive day for the two Aston Martin Racing Vantage powered teams entered into this weekend’s 24H Series 12 Hours of Misano.

Not having any AMR powered crew compete within a Creventic organised event for some time, it was great to see both the Street Art Racing team return to the series within one of their 17A variants of the Vantage GT4 as well as Prime Speed Sport reach out from New Zealand with their new Earl Bamber Motorsport prepared Vantage GT3.

Two Aston Martin Racing powered crews appear on the entry list ahead of next weekend’s 24H Series visit to Misano in Italy.

‘Long time no see’ as far as Aston Martin powered teams are concerned within the Creventic Series, next weekend will see a further ad-hoc showing from the Belgian based Street Art Racing team with one of the Vantage GT4 platforms after they ran a ‘warm up’ event for drivers Pascal Bachmann and Jahid Fazal Karim at the last round of the FFSA GT4 Series at Spa Francorchamps. These two will be joined by Julien Darras.

 

Joining the five Aston Martin Racing powered teams of the British GT Championship at Spa Francorchamps this weekend will be (sadly) just three Aston Martin Racing Vantage GT4 cars of the supporting FFSA GT4 Series.

Once operating with grids with high numbers of Aston Martin’s, the French national series has seen an unfortunate decline in like-minded racing teams (and customer drivers) to where we see just three full season crews entered alongside one local returnee with their older generation of Vantage platform.

 

This weekend sees the third round of the ADAC GT4 Germany Series take place around the Nurburgring with another twist to the Aston Martin Racing powered contingent in store too.

Starting out at Oschersleben at the end of May before progressing to Zandvoort in Holland four weeks later saw the Bachman siblings start and then end their series endeavours with the Prosport Racing team, for them to be replaced ahead of the last round and for two series debutants to take their places again in Germany.

 

After the trials and tribulations for the five Aston Martin Racing Vantage GT4 crews at the opening round of the ADAC Gt4 Germany Series from Oschersleben on Saturday, Sunday’s second race unfortunately saw much of the same.

Having suffered from technical gremlins for much of the Free Practice, Q1 and race 1, the #48 car of Yevgen Sokolovskiy and Damon Surzyshyn got swapped out to one of the teams cars that had just competed within the ADAC TotalEnergies 24H event the week before.

 

The five Aston Martin Racing powered runners within the ADAC GT4 Germany Series will be hoping for better in tomorrow’s second race of the season opener from Oschersleben after incident and technical issues saw just two cars finish.

Entering this season as defending Champions, the #1 Prosport Racing car of Mike David-Ortmann and Hugo Sasse were immediately upon the back foot having Qualified only sixth within the field of twenty-nine cars. The #007 Doer Motorsport car of Ben Dorr (and Theo Nouet) was next in also a disappointing (for them) P11 with the Bachmann family car of Jessica and Andreas close behind in P12 despite their ongoing technical issues through Free Practice and Qualifying.

 

The ADAC GT4 Germany Series kicks off its 2023 season this weekend from the Oschersleben circuit to the west of Berlin with twenty-nine GT4 crews expected to take part within the opening two one-hour races of the season – this time in support of the rekindled DTM Series.

 

Five Aston Martin Racing powered Vantage GT4 crews have just completed the official two-day test at Oschersleben ahead of this season’s opener of the ADAC GT4 Germany Series at the circuit in two weeks’ time.

Unlike last season when the majority of Aston Martin runners came from the Doer Motorsport team, this season sees the Prosport Racing team take that honour as they prepare the cars for four of their own crews with the Doer team making up the fifth.

 

Rounding off last weekend’s Aston Martin Racing powered affairs had the two Street Art Racing Vantage GT3 and GT4 crews take to the track for the opening rounds of the GT Open and GT Open Cup from Portimao.

Within the teams colourful Vantage GT3 was the former GT4 European Series Am Class Champion Pascal Bachmann return to the series for his second season but this time with a co-driver in Jahid Fazal-Karim having raced solo for the events that he attended last year.

 

The International GT Open and GT Cup Open Europe kick off their opening rounds to their 2023 season this weekend with a sizeable contingent of GT3 race cars within the GT Open and a growing number of GT4 based cars within the other.

Thirty-three GT3 cars to be exact, will travel down to the Autodromo de Internacional do Algarve near Portimao for their traditional Saturday and Sunday, pit stop punctuated races for entries competing within their Pro, Pro-Am and Am classes.

 

Belgium based Street Art Racing have tonight announced their latest Aston Martin Racing Vantage art car that will compete this time within the GT Open Cup Series alongside that of the recently announced Vantage GT3 within the GT Open Series.

The fifth art car creation from the Albert Bloem led team, this GT4 entry will be a parallel effort for Jetcraft boss Jahid Fazal-Karim alongside driver coach Julian Darras and will be in addition to Jahid’s GT3 efforts alongside Pascal Bachmann.

 

It was another successful visit to the GT Winter Series for the Prosport Racing team with three out of their four Aston Martin Racing powered crews picking up class podium finishes at the end of Sunday’s three race visit to Navarro.

For their recently reconfirmed Nordschliefe Langstrecken Series GT3 runners Jean Glorieux and Maxime Dumarey, it was to be a case of always the bridesmaid for them picking up second in each of the two thirty-minute solo driver rounds before the days ending hour long, pit stop punctuated race to end with.

The provisional entry list for this weekend’s fifth round of the GT Winter Series from Navarro has just been published with the German based Prosport Racing Aston Martin Racing team again filling the grid.

After two podium winning weekends for the team at both Jerez and most recently at Valencia, the team has again entered three of their AMR Vantage GT4’s and one of their AMR Vantage GT3’s albeit it with a slightly adjusted driver line-up between them.

 

The Street Art Racing team entered into both the GT Open and GT Open Cup Series finish off another busy weekend of Aston Martin Racing customer racing this time around as they see out their respective seasons from the Circuit de Catalunya in Spain.

Having skipped rounds throughout the season due to prior business engagements for their gentleman drivers, the team returned to racing at the last round at Monza, a move that proved fruitful for Pascal Bachmann in his Vantage GT3 in the GT Open Series but rather painful for Jahid Fazal-Karim in his Vantage GT4 in the sister series.

 

Street Art Racing’s return to the GT Open and GT Open Cup Series at Monza at the weekend came with a bruising encounter for their GT4 gentleman driver whereas their GT3 driver came away with something totally unexpected.

Back in the series after skipping two previous rounds due to prior business engagements, the Pascal Bachmann driven Aston Martin Racing Vantage GT3 entered the main GT Open Series as a solo Am classed driver kept his #007 car firmly rooted to the black stuff whilst others were not during the deluge that marred Saturdays opening round to come away with an opportunist P3 in class for his efforts.