The second round of the World Endurance Championship is now upon us as the mixed class grid of nineteen Hypercars and eighteen new LMGT3 class cars descent upon the beautiful circuit of Imola between Bologna and San Marino in the northern half of Italy. Just about six weeks since the opening ten-hour round of the season in Qatar, this weekend’s event will be a modest six-hour affair around the 4.9km circuit for the grid and the two Aston Martin Racing Vantage LMGT3 crews from both the Heart of Racing and D’Station Racing AMR Partner Teams. Last time out at Losail circuit in the de ..read more

  Nineteen cars spread across four available classes will compete at this weekend’s opening salvo of the GT Cup Championship from Donington Park. Three entries within the topflight GTO class, two within GT3, four within GTC with another nine GT4 based cars making up the more favourable GTH class with two of those being Aston Martin Racing Vantage GT4’s run by the Forsetti Motorsport team. As previously announced by the Snetterton based team, their #9 entry will be made up of karter and GT4 novice Matthew Higgins racing alongside former Ginetta and now upcoming GT4 star Mikey Porter ..read more

The successfully ran Aston Martin Racing Vantage GT4 from the Araujo Competicao team will be taken over by a different driver crew this season as Vasco Oliveira and Guilherme Lemos step up to the plate for this year’s Iberian Supercars and Campeonato de Portugal de Velocidade Series. Last year piloted by the more gentlemanly pairing of Alvaro Ramos and Fernando Soares to claim the GTX Championship win, the brightly coloured Vantage GT4 will this year be taken on by the younger pairing as they step up to GT4 for the first time. The team also recently confirmed plans to enter one of the ne ..read more

  Seven Aston Martin Racing powered teams will grace the iconic backdrop of the street circuit around Long Beach California this weekend as both the IMSA Weathertech Sportscar Championship and SRO GT America Series take on their third and second rounds of their season respectively. Obviously, the IMSA event takes precedence as a scaled down grid lines up just the faster GTP class alongside the slower GTD class for this weekend’s one-hundred-minute sprint. That means it’s just the #27 Heart of Racing AMR Vantage GTD car this time but that car will also see a revised driver line up al ..read more

  The Heart of Racing will compete in three of the team’s six championship campaigns over the course of the April 19-21 weekend. The No. 27 Aston Martin Vantage LMGT3 will be in Imola, Italy with the FIA World Endurance Championship (WEC). The No. 27 Aston Martin Vantage GT3 will be on the streets of Long Beach with the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship. Joining the No. 27 IMSA GTD entry in Long Beach will be the No. 25 Aston Martin Vantage GT4 in the SRO GT America powered by AWS. Ian James, Alex Riberas, and Daniel Mancinelli are set to take the green flag of the 6 Hours of Imo ..read more

  This weekend welcomes the opening races of the 2024 GT World Challenge Asia series from the hot and sultry circuit of Sepang in Malaysia where a grid of thirty-three GT3 cars will be preparing for the two races scheduled this weekend. Amongst that number, we welcome two Aston Martin Racing Vantage GT3 powered teams as not only do the Japanese based D’Station Racing team return but we also welcome the Earl Bamber Motorsport team back with their new Vantage GT3 but with a new driver line up of their own. It’s not the first time that Satoshi Hoshino and Tomonobu Fujii have contested a ..read more

  The naming of yet another driver by the Italian Lazarus Corse Aston Martin Racing team confused matters yesterday as the confirmed that Italian racer Mattia Di Giusto would now be partnering Finnish racer William Alatalo within their AMR Vantage GT3. The team also confirmed for the first time that this driver line up will be competing within their national Italian GT Series. Di Giusto Alatalo Whilst this is all obviously great news, there now lies one simple question regarding the involvement of the first driver the team named for their 2024 commitments – where is Jorge Loren ..read more

  As one driver had put it after the race that they had had higher hopes for their opening race but sometimes you just need to accept what comes your way and build upon that result for the subsequent rounds. Wise words of experience indeed from the America racer, Derek DeBoer who had just completed one of his biggest race events of his racing career to date with the Racing Spirit of Leman team and co-drivers Valentin Hasse-Clot and Casper Stevenson within the opening round of the European Le Mans Series in Barcelona with their Aston Martin Racing Vantage LMGT3. As with any opening r ..read more

  It wasn’t to be any triumphant return to the Japanese Super GT Series for the Fuji based D’Station Racing team as early difficulties placed them at the back of the grid for today’s opener before late tyre issues dropped them back still stiff further. After recent official tests, the series opened their 2024 account at the Okayama circuit again with the #777 D’Station Racing Aston Martin racing Vantage GT3 of Tomonobu Fujii and Marco Sorensen being the sole AMR representative within their twenty-six strong GT300 Class. Early running in Free Practice saw the crew clock in a best lap ..read more

Team New Zealand are the latest recruits to the Aston Martin Racing powered family as they have been confirmed as the latest entrant into this season’s Thailand Super Series. Racing the older 17A iteration of the Vantage GT4 last seen out with Romain Leroux within the TSS Series support race at the Singapore F1 event, the team have confirmed that Kiwi racer Graeme Dowsett will be joined by upcoming Thai racer Ananthorn Tangniannatchai within the GT4 class. Over the last two season’s in the TSS Series, we have had the Viper Niza team represent the brand with their 16A version of the Vanta ..read more