As we understand things, this entry was rather a skills maintaining effort from the team rather than any full season entry with Letlaka also being listed on the timing results under a Dragon Racing entry – presumably with one of their Ferrari’s.

This was the first time in two years that their Vantage GT3 had been raced so maybe we will get to see it again if any further rounds are entered into in advance of an early start to 2026 with the Dubai 24 and 6H Creventic races in early January.

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After that, we were aware of the car running in unrestricted format, the team then progressed back to the Lamborghini or Ferrari GT3 package in other series.

This weekend’s format will see the #120 car compete in two twenty-five-minute sprint races on Saturday with Letlaka already showing his pace being fastest in Friday practice.

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The weekend’s format will have seen two Free Practice sessions today before Qualifying ahead of a fifteen-lap race across each of Saturday and Sunday.

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Tied through their previous mutual co-operation that has seen some of their European based engineering staff travel to South Africa to assist with their first runs out in the new AMR Vantage GT3 in return for Xolile Letlaka filling the race seat gaps within the Street Art teams own European racing commitment has seen a firm bond develop between the two teams.

Whilst the #007 Street Art Racing AMR Vantage GT3 is back to its scheduled two driver line up of Pascal Bachman and Jahid Fazal Karim for this weekend’s fifth round of their seven-round season in Austria, just co-driver Stuart White will be action with the South African outfit as they compete at Cape Town this weekend after a previously disappointing run out in their AMR last time out at the Kyalami Festival of Motorsport.

Two Free Practice sessions completed already in Austria sees the #007 still with some work to do being the last of the twenty-five runners during those two sessions, but not within the Bronze Driver test that ended track activity this afternoon.

Both races will be streamed live as usual via the series website.

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Having had to miss the last two rounds of the series to prior engagements, his position was taken by the South African Xolile Letlaka as he enjoyed the virtues of both Spa Francorchamps and the Hungaroring for the first time.

Also at Paul Ricard, we also see the return of the GT Open Cup Series for GT4 classed cars, so Street Art Racing will also be fielding their AMR Vantage GT4 for both Jayan Fazil- Karim and Julien Darras in these two races.

Again competing within the twelve strong Am Class, an opening Qualifying time from Bachman sees him starting today’s race from P5 in class.

Then back in the UK, we have just a solo Aston Martin Racing Vantage GT4 competing within this six-hour additional event to the season.

Returning to the series with their older, normally aspirated generation of GT4 sees Martin and Bill Addison team up with Tom Mendley within their #189 car for todays race. With Qualifying already completed, that car will start P6 within a mixed class grid of just twelve cars.

No full season BEC Aston Martins have elected to participate.

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Whilst we will not see an Aston Martin Racing Vantage GT4 compete within this round of the GT Cup Open Series this time around, we will be seeing the Street Art Racing AMR Vantage GT3 as they look to redress the disappointment of Portugal where transmission issues blighted their first race of the season and prevented them running within the second.

At their home round, Pascal Bachman will this time be joined by South African Xolile Letlaka as previously confirmed by the team as Jahid Fazal-Karim is absent through prior commitments and as the South African looks to expand his racing commitments into Europe again.

Still running within the series Am class, the #007 will remain highly conspicuous on track by means of its colourful livery. 

Then at Oulton Park we have the third round of the British Endurance Championship running on Saturday with the full season entries from both Venture Innovations Aston Martin Vulcan and MKH Racings AMR Vantage GT4 running in that three-hour affair.

Hopefully fully restored from being battered and bruised at the last round of the season from Brands Hatch, the bright orange #6 Vulcan of Gleb Stepanov and Stephen Tomkins is always a crowd favourite whilst the #50 car of Peter Montague and Stuart Hall very much there for the class and overall spoils of racing with their car sitting second in class and fourth overall after prior visits to both Silverstone and Brands Hatch.

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This time taking place around the Zwartkops Raceway near Pretoria, this opening round should see the presence of both generations of the Aston Martin Racing Vantage GT3 with the Kalex team again supporting the Paul Hill V12 AMR entry within the Endurance Class and the Into Africa Racing again supporting the Xolile Letlaka/Stuart White driven V8 Vantage GT3.

Whilst the Kalex V12 car has been raced within the South African domestic series for some years now after having been run by the Stradale Motorsport team, the newer generation of race car only made its series debut at the final round of last season at Cape Town when Letlaka and White went on to take both a Pro-Am class win and second place during their debut event.

Again being run with the help of members of various European based GT teams, the driving duo will obviously be looking to continue with that performance throughout the season.

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When interviewed on the grid earlier, Letlaka was full of praise for his latest racing acquisition having competed before within the teams Lamborghini.

Utilising the engineering expertise of Matty Driessen (a race engineer normally associated with the Belgian Street Art Racing team), Letlaka also intimated that this kind of long-distance relationship with world/European based technical personnel would continue when the season restarts afresh next year together with the potential of a ‘more renowned’ AMR Vantage GT3 partnering him next year.

Not specifically a ‘works driver’ but when the likes of Jordan Pepper are already involved, that would not be beyond the bounds of possibilities.

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