The 2019 Aston Martin Owners Club season concludes this weekend with their St John Horsfall Memorial Trophy meeting on the Silverstone National Circuit on Saturday.

As with all their previous meetings this year, this event isn't limited to cars from the Aston Martin factory and is usually well attended with racing cars from all manufacturers from as far back as 1928 to the present day. Cars more noticeable to be from the Aston Martin Racing stable will be competing within the GT Challenge and AMOC Intermarque & GT4 Challenge races.

Familiar names to the series feature on the entry list with the likes of Chris Murphy, Mal Sandford and Robin Marriott again in attendance, but then there is every chance that you might bump into a certain CEO in the paddock as well.


Saturdays racing will start promptly at 09:00 and will run through to its conclusion at 17:45hrs.

Entry List

Photo credits - AMOC Racing

Should you be in the UK over the weekend and strangely not be able to make it to the opening round of the new season of the World Endurance Championship (why not?) then perhaps you would like to make your way over to the Snetterton circuit in Norfolk for the penultimate round of this season's Aston Martin Owners Club racing.

Casting your eye down the provisional entry list for Saturday's activities on track you will see the usual GT4 'suspects' from Stratton Motorsport, Whitebridge AMR and Vantage Racing competing in the GT4 Challenge Race but it is those on either side of these entries that catches our eye.


Its been a long time since we have seen one of the former Marsh Plant Aston Martin V8 powerhouses from the 1970's race around a track and we have one of those due to compete in the Inter-marque Challenge alongside another AMR Vantage GT4.


Then, as Invitational entries into the GT Challenge race we will have Paul Whight and his former Villois Racing AMR Vantage GT2 out and about with Joe Hill joining him as well as the return of Gleb Stepanov's upgraded Aston Martin Vulcan AMR Pro with Stephen Tomkins. Maybe, that car will turn up still wearing its camouflage livery from the Gumball 300 charity run that it participated in earlier this year?

Could be interesting on track and a delight to listen to with some there tomorrow for private testing?

Photo credits - AMR / RLSI

Yesterday saw the Aston Martin Owners Club hold their second round of their 2019 season around the Indy Loop at Brands Hatch.

Whilst many of the names that features down the entry list are more than familiar to their meetings, it was great to see the re-appearance of both Andrew Jarman and Hiroyuki Akane for the first time in many years (from Jarman's point of view at least)!


More recently associated together with Akane's Alpha Classic Racing team over in Japan, it appears that Akane has now sourced himself an older iteration Aston Martin Racing V8 Vantage GT4 for him to race within the series with the help of the ever present Stratton Motorsport team.

Indeed, Akane and Jarman's trip down to Kent proved worthwhile with a very credible P2 finish in the AMOC Intermarque with GT4 Challenge race despite having started on Pole. Under the ever watchful eye of Stuart Hall, Robin Marriott took the top step for the GT4 Challenge with Aston Martin Lagonda designer Marek Reichman/Becker completing the podium.


In the earlier sole GT4 Challenge race there were also podiums for Chris Murphy (Whitebridge AMR) and a class P3 for Jarman/Akane.

Nice to see you both back - looks like you had some fun!!!

Photo credits - AMOC / Stratton

Casting an eye over the entry list for this weekends opening round of the Aston Martin Owners Club at Donington Park caught a couple of interesting names.

Amongst the many brands and models of cars within the Intermarque and GT Challenge races came the usual usual AMR Vantage GT4 suspects of Robin Marriott and David Tinns with the Stratton Motorsport team as well as the Vantage N24 of Newbridge Motorsport.

One of Newbridge's customer is Gleb Stepanov and once again it looks like he will be bringing his own Aston Martin Vulcan to race around the track in the GT Challenge race alongside co driver Stephen Tomkins albeit in the INV class as seen in the photograph above taken at the Aston Martin Festival at Le Mans last year. This is the chassis that RML made into a road legal variant before Stepanov upgraded it to an AMR version of the car!

Also competing against them and in a much lower powered Vantage GT4 will be one Marek Reichman of Aston Martin Lagonda.

Racing activity takes place on Saturday 20th April.

Photo credit - Newbridge