Whilst most European based series are now or have already closed up for the season, the Iberian Supercars Series still have two race weekends to go before they also call time on 2026 as they visit Jerez this weekend for their penultimate round.

By virtue of their long summer break sees that series within a series event run on longer than most as another twenty-nine strong GT4 powered entry will line up this weekend at the Circuito do Jerez Angel Nieto for their two hour long races this weekend.

 

Amongst this entry again sees another four or five Aston Martin Racing Vantage GT4 powered entries with one Racar Motorsport entry again yet to be confirmed so upon previous rounds, we are looking at more likely four entries.

Miguel Ferreira and Fernando Soares are back with their #007 NGT Motorsport Am class entry alongside the #777 RV7 entry for Ruben Vaquinhas and Mico Mineiro. The Portuguese Racar Motorsport team will again field a two-car entry for both Vasco Oliveira and Manuel Giao within their #28 Bronze class entry alongside the Pro classed #77 entry for drivers Mathieu Martins and Anton Morsing.

 

Championship wise and with this round being another joint Super Cars Espana, Super Cars Iberian and CPV Series round, but the Espana Series will conclude this time around with Oliveira an AMR powered teams best championship chance within that series as he’s presently sitting top of the GT4 Bronze table and ten points clear of his nearest rival.

As for the other two series, there are still four races to go within each so much can still change within their running orders with Oliveira again heading the bronze class within the Iberian Series but also with Martins/Morsing and Vaquinhas still possibilities should results go their way. Vaquinhas also has a dominating class lead within the CPV Series.

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This winter’s European based Asian Le Mans Series just got a little busier for us Aston Martin Racing powered fans as the ACO series today confirmed an eighteen strong multi-class grid for their supporting Asian Le Mans Cup Series that will run for the first time at the season opener from Paul Ricard in mid-November.

Another unfortunate change of plan due to the ongoing tensions within the Persian Gulf, the Asian Le Mans Series was somewhat forced to reposition its usual winter race programme from the normal Dubai and Abu Dhabi destinations to places in something Europe that would still entice the suitably financed teams and individuals to take part.

Whilst the main attraction will again field another forty-seven strong multi-classed grid of (this year) Hypercar, LMP2 and GT3 powered teams including four Aston Martin Racing Vantage GT3 powered crews within the GT3 class – that left no room for the many LMP3 powered crews that more than made up the numbers over the years.

 

That lead to the creation of this year’s Cup Series which will see twelve LMP3 crews run across its two available classes as well as a further six GT3 powered crews who didn’t get accepted into the main event.

Running the same three venue, two races per venue format at Paul Ricard this year before moving onto both Jerez and Portimao in January and February next year, we will welcome both the Racing Spirit of Leman and E2P Racing Aston Martins along too. Whilst no drivers were confirmed today, we won’t have to wait too long for that information as the season opening in France is just three weeks away.

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Good news for the new season came early today as the Asian Le Mans Series confirmed their provisional entry list ahead of their heavy reconfigured 2026-27 plans with an impressive capacity forty-seven car strong, multi-classed entry.

Due to the ongoing geo-political situation within the Middle East at the moment, the Asian Le Mans Series made a swift decision to relocate its traditional cross winter season from their more traditional homes of Dubai and Abu Dhabi to circuits within southern Europe in order to provide some kind of surety to their partners that their commitment to the new season will be met with some racing at the end of the day.

 

As a result, this year’s season will see their six four-hour races moved to the Circuit Paul Ricard in southern France in mid-November before moving onto both Circuito De Jerez in mid-January before rounding off the season at the Autodromo Internacional do Algarve just a month later.

The news confirmed today states the maximum grid size that all three circuits can routinely accommodate as well as some expectation with the names behind the team entries.

 

As far as Aston Martin Racing powered teams were concerned, the two Vantage GT3 entries of the 2025-26 season has this time morphed into four such cars as the Heart of Racing has two GT3 places confirmed alongside one apiece for the (renamed) Car Blanche by RSL (Racing Spirit of Leman) team and the returning Ecurie Ecosse by Blackthorn AMR team.

This news went onto confirm that Ian James and Gray Newell would be associated with each of the Heart of Racings #26 and #27 car entries as well as Arnold Robin, Jonny Edgar and Valentin Hasse-Clot being confirmed already within the #68 Car Blanche entry. Last season, the Blackthorn car was crewed last year by Giacomo Petrobelli, Jonny Adam and Kobe Pauwels but this time Adam’s name is not there within the #70 entry list for this year but the other two are.

 

The total grid will be made up of two new for 26-27 Hypercar entries alongside sixteen LPM2 cars with the rest of the field being made up from the GT3 class.

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There were more podium finishes and indeed championship wins for a couple of Aston Martin Racing powered crews at the end of last weekend’s final round of the Iberian Supercar Series from Jerez in southern Spain.

Originally listed a showing six such Vantage GT4 crews as participating within these two races, it appears that only four may have showed up and with one significant pairing this time not running as how they previously have.

 

The Iberian Supercars Championship host their penultimate round of their season this weekend from the southern Spanish city of Jerez where another sizeable collection of GT4, GTC and TCR based cars will compete over these two races.

Within the provisional entry list, we would expect to see six Aston Martin Racing Vantage GT4 powered crews compete – mainly within the GT4 classed entry but with an older generation also competing amongst the GTC and TCR entry.

 

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.

 

The greatest number of Aston Martin Racing powered crews running this weekend will be within the Iberian Supercars Series who will be running at Estoril with a mighty eight Vantage GT4 entries.

Starting what will only be their second round of their 2024 season so far, the SRO sanctioned series will be running this two-race weekend with another healthy GT4 grid of forty cars.

 

A massive forty-two car entry will greet the fans at the Iberian Supercars Series season opener from Jerez this weekend – their biggest entry list to date.

Within the list we will also welcome an incredible SIX Aston Martin Racing Vantage GT4 powered teams amongst the entry as the Araujo Competicao AMR team is this time joined by both the Racar Motorsport team and the Mirage Racing team with their respective, and mainly all new for 2024 driver line ups.

The successfully ran Aston Martin Racing Vantage GT4 from the Araujo Competicao team will be taken over by a different driver crew this season as Vasco Oliveira and Guilherme Lemos step up to the plate for this year’s Iberian Supercars and Campeonato de Portugal de Velocidade Series.

Last year piloted by the more gentlemanly pairing of Alvaro Ramos and Fernando Soares to claim the GTX Championship win, the brightly coloured Vantage GT4 will this year be taken on by the younger pairing as they step up to GT4 for the first time.

 

The GT4 Winter Series dream continued for the Norfolk based Forsetti Motorsport team this weekend as their drivers Mikey Porter and Jamie Day’s haul of class silverware continued up until halfway around the final lap of today’s final race in Jerez.

Having been busy testing at Portimao during the week with this and other forthcoming driver line ups, the #19 Aston Martin Racing Vantage GT4 powered team arrived at the Jerez track more than up to speed despite the unfamiliarity of the Spanish circuit where both Day and Porter secured pole positions for each of their solo thirty-minute sprints.

 

GT4 Winter Series Championship leaders Forsetti Motorsport will be continuing their preparatory works this week as they build up for the third round of the series this weekend from Jerez.

Having formed at the tail end of the last season, the Norfolk based team have been perhaps the busiest Aston Martin Racing Partner team so far with their testing and early season race programme for their (so far) sole AMR Vantage GT4 and crew.

 

Portimao turned out to be another successful venue in southern Europe for the Snetterton based Forsetti Motorsport team at the weekend as they and their Aston Martin Racing Vantage GT4 drivers again enjoyed multiple visits to the podium within the GT4 Winter Series.

Having debuted together last weekend at Estoril, drivers Mikey Porter and Jamie Day carried on from where they had left off last week but with the Racar Motorsport AMRE pairing of Mathieu Martins and Roberto Faria still pushing them hard along the way.

Thankfully, the rains had finally passed the venue by and all three races over the weekend were able to be run on a completely dry track. Like last time, the GT4 Winter Series would run Qualifying and the first 30minute solo driver race on Saturday before the second solo driver race and 60minute endurance race for both drivers later in the day.

 

It was a successful return to the Iberian Supercars Series for the now, two Aston Martin Racing Vantage GT4 crews as the GT4/TCR based grid ran for the first time at Jarama in early June around the Spanish circuit of Jerez.

Welcoming back the class leading #007 Araujo Competicao Aston Martin of Alvaro Ramos and Fernando Soares, for this return to racing after their summer break also saw the first running of the #777 Alexandre Martin and Rubin Vaquinhas.

 

The Iberian Supercars Endurance Champiosnhip reconvenes its 2023 season after a summer break that saw the multi-class grid take to the track at Jarama in mud June, although some did take part within the available non-championship round at Vila Real a month later.

Two championship rounds completed and two still to go including this weekend’s visit to Jerez, Spain for two more races that will also the first running of the series latest Aston Martin Racing Vantage GT4 crew amongst the twenty five strong entry.

 

Still amidst their long summer break, the Iberian Supercar Endurance Series today confirmed something that already had been partly revealed but not with the full clarity of today’s confirmation.

With one Aston Martin Racing Vantage GT4 already running within the SRO sanctioned series with great success so far for its crew and Araujo Competicao team, that we have confirmed that the teams second Aston Martin will be for their Portuguese racer Ruben Vaquinhas once the season gets back to business.