Both the European Le Mans Series and the Le Mans Cup Series will be at the Circuit de Catalunya in Barcelona early next week for its annual pre-season Prologue test at the circuit and ahead to a flying start to their season’s their next weekend.

Whilst both AC rules series celebrate large to capacity grids within both multi-platform, multi-class series, we Aston Martin Racing fans will sadly have to make do with one just AMR Vantage LMGT3/GT3 within each series this time around.

The #59 Racing Spirit of Leman LMGT3 entry within the ELMS needs no real introduction as last season’s D’Station Racing World Endurance Championship racing partnership in Clement Mateu and Erwan Bastard join forces behind the wheel this time with their driver coach and AMR factory driver Valentin Hasse-Clot.

The entry list for the Prologue test shows a healthy forty-four car entry with thirteen of those being within the LMGT3 class.

Then within the support Le Mans Cup Series, we have the #11 Code Racing Development AMR Vantage GT3 for which still only has driver Bailey Voisin hinted at from when the entry was first confirmed although the official entry list shows both driver names as still TBC.

 

Whoever will be aboard this car will also be amongst another healthy forty-four car entry with just eight of those competing within the GT3 class with the remainder within the two available LMP3 classes.

 

Balance of Performance wise, the Vantage GT3 will run with the same boost as it did at the last round of the last season in Portimao but 10kg lighter to that event whilst within the ELMS, the Vantage LMGT3 will run with a new minimum base weight and power characteristics and wing angle available to them. Like always, these parameters are subject to change at the behest of the series technical committee.

 

The ELMS Prologue test will run across Monday and Tuesday of next week before the LMC Series have theirs on Wednesday before the first official sessions of the collective new season starting on Friday 4^th April.

 

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French based Code Racing development today revealed the livery that will adorn their Aston Martin Racing Vantage GT3 Evo that will compete within the Le Mans Cup Series this season.

Officially confirmed by the series at the start of the month as the sole Aston Martin within a GT class of just eight cars this time around but within combined grid of a forty-four cars including the two LMP3 classes.

 

Following on from yesterday’s ACO rules announcements from at least part of the Aston Martin Racing powered contingent in both the World Endurance Championship and Asian Le Mans Series – todays sees further ACO rules AMR participation, this time within the European Le Mans Series supporting Michelin Le Mans Cup Series.

Last season we saw the Blackthorn AMR team eventually roll out two AMR Vantage GT3 cars (once the supply issues had been sorted out with the provision of the new Vantage GT3 Evo chassis and body parts) into the six round season which saw their best placed car eventually finish eighth in a championship class of eleven entries.