Autoblog: Aston Martin announces expansion into LMP1 class

[monkeyboy]

Filed under: Motorsports, Aston Martin

Never a moment's rest for the team at Aston Martin Racing. Not since Prodrive chief David Richards took over with his consortium of investors, at least. With the announcement of the V8 Vantage GT2, the team has expanded into every class of GT racing in the Le Mans Series, campaigning racing DB9s in GT1 and GT3 and competition-spec V8 Vantages in GT2 and GT4. But now that the regulations for the Le Mans Prototype class have been modified to allow for GT1 engines to power LMP cars, Aston Martin is turning its attention to that class, too.

Hot on the heels of the team's unveiling of the retro-tastic Gulf livery for its DBR9 GT1 cars, Aston Martin Racing has announced a collaboration with Charouz Racing Systems, which will campaign a Lola chassis with the DBR9's 6-liter V12 in this year's 24 Hours of Le Mans and in the broader European Le Mans Series. Tomas Enge, Stefan Mucke and Jan Charouz will drive the car, and in addition to working in partnership with Lola's engineering team to repackage the V12 for the LMP chassis, Aston Martin Racing's engineers will support Charouz Racing System's cars at the races.
We're looking forward to seeing the car in full race trim and to witnessing Aston Martin taking on the entire field at this year's Le Mans 24. Press release after the jump.
[Source: Aston Martin Racing via Motive]
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[Stuart]

Do you suppose they could seriously challenge Audi?

Also, is this really the best use of the money, not they don't have Ford to bankroll and problems.

 

[Glenn Mc]

Looks just like the RS Spyder to me


Than again, they all look the same to me

 

[Stuart]

You must've noticed it has a roof?
That's at least one difference, and it has no Porsche logo's on it, which is the 2nd one.