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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Listed as racing under the Into Africa racing banner, this Stradale Motorsport support car will be driven by SAGT owner and prominent promotor of South African motorsport racing driver Xolile Letlaka for the final round of the series at the Killarney Motorsport Park this weekend amongst a fourteen car grid.

No stranger to modern GT platforms having raced at the last Kyalami 9Hrs within a Lamborghini Huracan GT3 Evo, his latest acquisition has only just arrived within the country so there has been no time for any prior testing.

The provenance of this Aston Martin is yet to be determined, whether it is a new platform or not only time will tell but Letlaka will be in good hands at Stradale with the team having raced a V12 AMR Vantage GT3 within the series a few years ago.

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