Two Aston Martin Racing powered crews within this weekends GT Cup visit to Snetterton
GT4 Challenge and British GT names from the past sees both Richard Taffinder and Tim Eakin reunite as a racing pairing as well as rejoining forces with what is now the GBR Stratton Motorsport team as they will complete within one of the teams AMR Vantage GT4’s.
This weekend will again see two twenty-five-minute sprint races and two fifty-minute pit stop races.
Photo credit – GBR Stratton (GT4)
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Silverstone Festival delivers rewards for multiple AMR classes in Masters Series
Aston Martin Racing from across the ages and classes was also well represented at the weekend a literally hundreds of vintage and classic race cars descended upon Silverstone for what is now known as the Silverstone Festival.
Spread over the three days of last weekend, those who either attended the event or watched its live stream would have been blessed with the sights and indeed sounds of cars like the Lola Aston Martin DBR1-2, Vantage GT2, Vantage GT3 and Vantage GT4’s that competed within either the master’s endurance Legends or Master’s GT Trophy rounds.
Historic racer, Christophe D’Asembourg was throwing his Lola Aston martin about again, finishing P5 overall and second in class during race 1 of the Endurance Legends before an improved P3 overall and P1 in class for race 2.
Also within that race was the #12 AMR Vantage GT3 of Guenther Alth as well as the new #19 Blackthorn AMR Vantage GT3 (not quite sure how that qualified as being a ‘legend’ considering the car is next to brand new this year?) for which drivers Claude Bovet and David McDonald won their G2/GT3 class during race 1 on Saturday.
In a weekend otherwise short of AMR success within the more up to date realms of current motorsport, the Paul Whight and Alistair MacKinnon driven AMR Vantage GT2 secured an INV class win in P5 overall at the end of their two-hour race with the #33 Vantage GT4 of Dale Albutt stepping in for his father and powering his way to a class win as well.
Photo credits (where known) - Masters Series
Tuesday, August 29, 2023 |
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An interesting array of cars at this weekends AMOC event at Snetterton
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
Thursday, August 29, 2019 |
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