Running in a two-car class, the #47 car featuring Tatsuya Hoshino, Max Orido, Kenji Hama and Jake Parsons are again in the business of trying to limit the so far dominant KTM crew from clinching the ST-1 class Championship.

With just two rounds remaining, the #47 crew really do need to beat the #2 KS Frontier KTM crew to have any championship potential at the season finale around the teams home track of Fuji at the end of November.

The weekend also sees the next round of the South African G&H Extreme Supercar Series run at the Zwartkops Raceway with Into Africa Racing again fielding their mighty AMR Vantage GT3 in the hands of Stuart White.

Last time out at Killarney, White managed to secure not just a race win but also the lap record around the circuit thanks to adjustments made to the car by the team and attending race engineers.

Finally, we have the final round of the British Endurance Championship at Donington Park this weekend which will now see two Aston Martin Racing Vantage GT4 teams do their thing.

The MKH Racing AMR crew of Peter Montague and Stuart Hall will be looking to round off their 2023 season in style whilst the Newbridge Motorsport team will debut within the Championship with AMR factory driver Tom Canning and Indian racer Humaira Mushtaq.

The #50 MKH Racing crew need to overcome a seventeen-point deficit to the #21 Venture Innovations Mercedes AMG GT4 crew at the end if they are to lift the GT4 crown.

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Tied through their previous mutual co-operation that has seen some of their European based engineering staff travel to South Africa to assist with their first runs out in the new AMR Vantage GT3 in return for Xolile Letlaka filling the race seat gaps within the Street Art teams own European racing commitment has seen a firm bond develop between the two teams.

Whilst the #007 Street Art Racing AMR Vantage GT3 is back to its scheduled two driver line up of Pascal Bachman and Jahid Fazal Karim for this weekend’s fifth round of their seven-round season in Austria, just co-driver Stuart White will be action with the South African outfit as they compete at Cape Town this weekend after a previously disappointing run out in their AMR last time out at the Kyalami Festival of Motorsport.

Two Free Practice sessions completed already in Austria sees the #007 still with some work to do being the last of the twenty-five runners during those two sessions, but not within the Bronze Driver test that ended track activity this afternoon.

Both races will be streamed live as usual via the series website.

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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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