With just over a week to go before Media Day, their first pair of drivers have today been confirmed by the GBR Stratton Aston Martin Racing team ahead of this season’s British GT Championship.

Having announced a potential two car AMR Vantage GT4 entry way back at the turn of the year, the pairing of John Hartsorne and Ronan Pearson is the first driver announcement from the partnership between the Graham Brunton Racing and Stratton Motorsport team and comes some weeks after at least one tested with the team at Donington Park.

 

Whilst Hartshorne will be a very familiar name within the Aston Martin Racing Partner team fraternity after his racing comeback with the TF Sport team within most of the current ACO rules series, this is his first recent adventure within a GT4 platform within current regulations.

Pearson meanwhile, comes from the UK TOCA package of race series including the Renault Clio Cup and British Touring Car Championship but this will be his first adventure into GT racing.

“I am absolutely ecstatic to be making my debut in the British GT Championship with GBR Stratton
Motorsport. This change of career path has me incredibly motivated for success and I feel extremely lucky to be working with some great people who have really been in my corner through every step so far. My first season in rear-wheel-drive machinery is going to be a big learner but one that has been in my sights for some time now and this welcome change couldn’t come at a better time with the opportunity that I now have” he said.

With potentially seven Aston Martin Racing powered crews being entered into this season, this news still leaves the second GBR Stratton Motorsport crew to be declared plus the second Full Send Racing GT4 crew after that of Darren Turner and Dan Lavery.

From what we understand from British GT, all further announcements between now and Media Day (at Silverstone on the 31st March) will be on short notice.

Photo credits – Team

 

 

Whilst many of us will be transfixed upon the events from the 90th Edition of the 24 Hours of Le Mans this weekend, over at Daytona the World Racing League will be running a mini version of their own with another of their fourteen-hour race events.

With costs managed by the series to ensure sustainable efficiencies within their clientele, this event again features another multi-class grid of seventy-eight entries which, like always, sells out well before the day.

 

After a technically challenging season opener at the NOLA Motorsport Park two weeks ago, the Prosport Competition Aston Martin Vantage team will be out again this weekend for the second round of the World Racing League Series from the Barber Motorsport Park.

Racing last time with SRO GT4 America Aston Martin racers Aaron Povoledo and Ross Chouest together with Matt Rivard and Zack Ping, a fuel pick-up issue three hours into the opening eight-hour race blighted their class P3 position start for them to lose too much time in pit lane to be contestable by the end before contact with another car ended their day early for the second race.