Eighty-three listed entries amongst the five available classes again sees the David Tuaty led TLM Racing team prepare two current variants of the Aston Martin Racing Vantage GT4 whilst the Automatic Racing team again field their older version for their respective gentleman clients.

With no car running the entire season, non are in any Championship contention with their participation bracketed within the ‘more for the sheer hell of it’ category of participation.

Jim Hamman returns with his distinctly familiar liveried #172 TLM Racing entry alongside that of Jody Miller and Stephen Hamman whilst their stablemate #888 also sees a subtle change in driver line up from last time around at Sebring as father, Brian O’Shaunessy this times partners Troy Ermish and Pippa Mann in lieu of son Zang.

The #909 Automatic Racing AMR is also listed as again running but they did have something of a torrid time at their home event in Sebring and couple of weeks ago as a fuel pressure/pump issue kept them side-lined for much of the weekend. We are still awaiting confirmation that they are again in attendance and with which drivers behind the wheel.

Whilst this race is also the final race of the season for the series, it is also (and very sadly) the final race in which those at CSJ Motorsport will be in attendance, functioning within the role as appointed Partners to Aston Martin Racing within the North America race theatre for the supply and race cars, parts and service to their clients.

Built up from virtually nothing by husband-and-wife duo Cy and Susan Jary back in early 2019, CSJ Motorsport command a large degree of the responsibility in building the American AMR GT racing scene into what it is today and like many Team Managers have already said to us – their absence in the paddock from the start of next season will be sorely noted. Whilst we still await confirmation of the organisation who will be taking over that role in 2024, hopefully Cy and Susan can just sit back and enjoy this ‘local’ race weekend and savour all that they have achieved as they seek out business opportunities elsewhere within the racing industry.

Photo credits – CSJ Motorsport / Tom Beer Photo

David Tuaty’s TLM Racing team is back with two of their customer driven Aston Martins as Jim Hamman, JP Southern and Tom Herb power the red #172 car whilst Pippa Mann, Zang O’Shaunessy and Troy Ermish driver the newly sponsored #888 together for the first time.

Whilst we believe the older, normally aspirated #909 Automatic Racing AMR Vantage GT4 is there with presumably familiar Stoner Car Care driven faces, the main attention does swing over to the #89 entry from the Team 89X Motorsport team who have taken delivery of two familiar cars.

Whilst one is the familiar AMR yellow and the other plain black, we understand that both have been purchased from New Zealand where both were driven within the New Zealand GT Series up until the end of last season with the yellow one being the Vantage GT8R car of Stephen Harrison. The other is a Vantage GT4 variant that is believed to be that of Shane Helms where both drivers drove with the RaceLab team within the NZ GT Series back in 2022/23 seasons.

We don’t presently know of all their names – other than Mike Fitzpatrick runs alongside both Sebastian and Jeff within whichever one they elect to run.

As usual for the WRL Series, it’s a long a hard eight-hour race on Saturday before they do it all again on Sunday before shipping out to the Circuit of the Americas for the final round of the season in early December.

Photo credits - Tom Beers Photo / CSJ / Racelab