The latest entry list for the Le Mans 24 Hours supporting Aston Martin Festival race shows 39 cars set to contest the race.
A trio of GT2 spec cars will see British GT Champion Andrew Howard in his newly acquired V8 Vantage GTE (below).
Roald Goethe fields his 2011/12 ILMC/ WEC car. The Japanese based Alpha Classics racing sees car owner Hiroyuuki Akane paired with current British GT Aston driver Andrew Jarman.
The GT3 pack sees five V12 Vantage GT3s and a single DBRS9 listed (Stephane Ratel’s proposed drive in one of his DBRS9s has not (yet) come to fruition.
Beechdean AMR list Phil Drybrugh, Motionsport’s earlier entry is now missing from the latest list. Strata 21 enter the speedy looking duo of Paul White and Tom Onslow Cole – Here’s an opportunity perhaps to judge the relative speeds on the full Le Mans circuit of current spec GT3 machinery, this race the only one to allow this comparison to happen!
The initially entered pair of Motorbase entered cars have also disappeared from the entry.
Kevin Buckler and Christina Nielsen are due to drive a pair of TRG AMR entered GT3 cars too. 22 GT Racing field both their DBRS9 and V12 Vantage GT3 for Mark Farmer and Tom Alexander.
No fewer than 25 GT4 V8 Vantages are listed, many from familiar teams and with drivers well versed in the noble art of GT4 jousting.
TV presenter Paul Hollywood shares a Beechdean entered car with Aston Martin’s David Richards whilst TRG AMR enter no fewer than six cars in the class, including one for Ben Keating, the American driver no doubt getting valuable additional track time ahead of the main race where he crews the GTE Am Viper.
One od a pair of AML entered GT4s features N24 pairing Liam Talbot and AML test driver Wolfgang Schuhbauer with the other seeing Aston Designer Marek Reichman get a drive alongside Swiss rock singer and amateur racer Nina Vetterli-Treml.
Finally the Invitation class where Stuart Hall will pilot the glorious Lola Aston Martin LMP1 from the ROFGO Collection joined by Young Driver AMR boss Jan Struve in a GT1 spec DBR9 and Jack Nellman in an ex Nurburgring 24 Hours Aston Zagato. One of the pair of Aston Martin GT12s that contested the Nurburgring 24 Hours is listed with AML CEO Andy Palmer set to drive alongside author and Journalist Jason Harper.
Provisional Entry List
Class Number Team Driver 1 Driver 2
GT2 16 Alpha Classics Racing Hiroyuki Akane Andrew Jarman
GT2 7 Beechdean AMR Andrew Howard
GT2 98 Gulf Racing for ROFGO Roald Goethe
GT3 2 Beechdean AMR Phil Drybrugh
GT3 21 Strata 21 Paul White Tom Onslow Cole
GT3 81 TRG AMR Kevin Buckler
GT3 82 TRG AMR Christina Nielsen
GT3 11 22 GT Racing Mark Farmer
GT3 32 22 GT Racing Tom Alexander
GT4 41 Academy Motorsport Will Moore
GT4 42 Academy Motorsport Matt Nicoll-Jones
GT4 4 Aston Martin Belgium Arnold Herreman
GT4 19 Aston Martin Belgium Jean-Paul Herreman
GT4 48 Alfab AMR Eric Behrens Daniel Roos
GT4 43 Aston Martin Lagonda Marek Reichman / Nina Vetterli-Treml
GT4 44 Aston Martin Lagonda Wolfgang Schuhbauer / Liam Talbot
GT4 76 Aston Martin St Gallen Andreas Baenziger
GT4 1 Beechdean AMR Paul Hollywood David Richards
GT4 47 JWB Motorsports Kieran Griffin Paul Dehadray
GT4 25 Speedworks Ron Johnson
GT4 55 Stratton Motorsport Dominique Bastien
GT4 56 Stratton Motorsport Peter Montague Zak Mercer
GT4 57 Stratton Motorsport Pierre Mantello
GT4 58 Stratton Motorsport Robin Marriott
GT4 59 Stratton Motorsport David Tinn
GT4 83 TRG AMR Derek DeBoer Bob Bramlage
GT4 88 TRG AMR Greg Milzcik
GT4 84 TRG AMR Jeff Huber
GT4 85 TRG AMR Fred Schulte
GT4 86 TRG AMR Alex Welch
GT4 87 TRG AMR Ben Keating
GT4 24 Vantage Racing Tom Black
GT4 91 Vantage Racing Chris Kemp
GT4 12 22 GT Racing Mika Brown Chris Brown
INV – GT12 6 Aston Martin Lagonda TBC Andy Palmer / Jason Harper
INV – LMP1 9 Gulf Racing for ROFGO Stuart Hall
INV – GT1 95 Young Driver Jan Struve
INV – Zagato 59 Young Driver Jac Nellmann
GT3 #2 Beechdean AMR – Phil Drybrugh
GT3 #21 Strata 21 – Paul White / Tom Onslow Cole
GT3 #81 TRG AMR – Kevin Buckler
