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Aston Martin Racing's DBR9 which won the 2007 24 Hours of Le Mans LMGT1 Class
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Sponsored by Gulf Oil, one of Aston Martin Racing's 2008 DBR9
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An Aston Martin-powered Lola B08/60 run by Charouz Racing System and backed by Aston Martin Racing
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The new Aston Martin Vantage AMR which competes in the 2018–19 FIA World Endurance Championship

Aston Martin Racing is a British auto racing team established in 2004 as a partnership between automobile manufacturer Aston Martin and engineering group Prodrive.[1] The partnership was initially created for the purpose of returning Aston Martin to sports car racing with the DBR9, a heavily modified variant of the Aston Martin DB9. Since the DBR9's racing debut in 2005, Aston Martin Racing has expanded to build a variety of cars available to customers, as well as development of Aston Martin's V12 engine for Le Mans Prototype use. Aston Martin Racing's program has earned several successes over the years.

Although all cars are built by Prodrive at their factory, Aston Martin plays an integral part in designing the race cars, as well as integrating elements of the race cars back into Aston Martin's road cars.[2]

On 23 April 2009, Aston Martin chairman and Prodrive founder David Richards announced his intent to return to Formula One in 2010 with the possibility of using the Aston Martin name,[3] however this never materialised. Aston Martin had previously raced in the 1959 and 1960 Formula One seasons but failed to score points in either year.

Cars

Aston Martin Racing built cars for international grand tourer classes. The team itself ran a squad of DBR9s in the former top class, GT1, while other cars were offered to customers. The GTE class (formerly GT2) became their next target after the failure of the 2011 season, and the car is based on the V8 Vantage. The V8 Vantage also featured in GT3 and GT4 classes. Before the GT3 Vantage was introduced the DBRS9 solely raced in GT3.

In 2008, Aston Martin Racing entered into the Le Mans Prototype category with the aid of Charouz Racing System, installing a DBR9 V12 into a Lola B08/60 LMP1 prototype.

On 27 January 2009, the team announced a full works entry in the Le Mans Prototype category for the 2009 24 Hours of Le Mans[4] with the Lola-Aston Martin B09/60. The entry marks the 50th anniversary of its last outright win at Le Mans. The 2009 programme got off to an unfortunate start at the pre season Paul Ricard test on 8 March when Tomáš Enge destroyed the 007 car in an accident. Aston Martin Racing subsequently took delivery of a new Lola to replace the written off chassis.[5] The team entered two LMP1 cars bearing the iconic blue and orange livery of Gulf Oil. The aim was to emulate the achievements of the 1959 race win with the DBR1 driven by Carroll Shelby and Roy Salvadori. At Le Mans the AMR Eastern Europe 007 car of Jan Charouz, Tomáš Enge and Stefan Mücke finished fourth behind the factory entries of Peugeot and Audi, as well as being the highest finishing petrol-fuelled car. The 008 car was running as high as 3rd overall in the morning until Anthony Davidson had a collision with a GT1 Aston. Subsequent repairs and a 5-minute stop and go penalty—for causing the collision—dropped the car out of contention. The 009 car was retired after 252 laps.

Three cars were also entered in the 2010 24 Hours of Le Mans, although only the 007 and 009 cars were run by Aston Martin Racing; the 008 car was run by the French team Signature-Plus. Both the 008 and 009 cars suffered from problems and had to be retired, leaving only the 007 to finish 6th overall and completing 365 laps, less than it did in 2009.

In 2011 the B09/60 was succeeded by the Aston Martin AMR-One, powered by a downsized, 2.0 litre turbocharged straight six petrol engine. Initially, the car was running very poorly. In its first racing event, the 2011 6 Hours of Castellet, it was only as fast as some of the LMP2 cars in qualifying and was plagued with mechanical issues. It completed only 96 laps. They then decided not to race it in the rounds of the Intercontinental Le Mans Cup leading up to Le Mans so they can continue private testing with the troubled car in order to sort out the mechanical issues. So around came Le Mans and despite the testing and extra car, they were still lapping in the middle of the LMP2 pack in qualifying and in the race it was much a much worse scenario. Car #009 retired after only two laps around the Circuit de la Sarthe and car #007 retired two laps later on lap four. Both cars completed a combined six laps at the 79th Grand Prix of Endurance. After this shocking result, the team raced the old B09/60 for the remainder of the season although a much downgraded version in order to comply with the new 2011 regulations.

For 2012, Aston Martin Racing returned to GT racing with the V8 Vantage GT2. They entered two cars at the 2012 24 Hours of Le Mans with one in the LMGTE-Pro class and one in the LMGTE-Am class. They also had a third Vantage in the GTE-Pro class as a reserve entrant. One of the existing AMR-One's has been sold to Pescarolo Sport who are set to compete with that car and naming it the Pescarolo 03. They will use an engine from Judd Power rather than the Aston Martin powerplant. The other AMR-One has formed the base for the new DeltaWing project which debuted at Le Mans in 2012 with Highcroft Racing. The DeltaWing uses the AMR-One's carbon fibre tub.

In 2013 to celebrate the centenary of the marque, the team entered two 2013 specification Aston Martin Vantage GTE's in the LMGTE PRO class and two 2012 specification Vantage GTE's in LMGTE AM.[6] The team also competed in the full season of the FIA World Endurance Championship with the same cars.[7] Ex-Formula 1 driver Bruno Senna joined the team for the season[8] in one of the GTE Pro cars partnered by Frédéric Makowiecki and Rob Bell. The main GTE Pro car featured AMR regulars Darren Turner and Stefan Mücke joined by Peter Dumbreck for the 24 hours of Le Mans and the 6 Hours of Spa-Francorchamps.

On 21 November 2017, Aston Martin revealed the new Vantage: a dynamic successor to the biggest-selling road car in the British marque's history. This evening, in an unprecedented synchronised launch, Aston Martin Racing revealed the new 2018 Vantage GTE: the spectacular new FIA World Endurance Championship challenger poised to replace the team's most successful competition car of all-time, the multiple Le Mans-winning V8 Vantage GTE. Aston Martin Racing has confirmed it will race two brand new Vantage GTEs in the GTE Pro category of the 2018–19 WEC super season.

On 23 December 2020, Aston Martin Racing announced their decision to end their World Endurance Championship LMGTE Pro career and their Vantage GTE factory program in order to focus on their Formula One effort, as well as their LMGTE Am program, which will be funded by Paul Dalla Lana.

On 24 April 2023, Dalla Lana retired from racing and withdrew his NorthWest AMR team with immediate effect a week before the 6 Hours of Spa. Heart of Racing took over the entry, but kept the NorthWest AMR name and number to conform with the championship regulations.

Factory drivers

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Results

Since the team's debut at the 2005 12 Hours of Sebring, Aston Martin Racing has earned several important victories in their career. Their very first race actually earned them their first victory, defeating the Corvette Racing squad at Sebring. The RAC Tourist Trophy was also won later that year.

For 2006, Aston Martin Racing entered the full American Le Mans Series season, earning five victories including the Petit Le Mans, and finishing second in the GT1 championship, three points shy of Corvette Racing. In 2007, Aston Martin earned their first victory at the 24 Hours of Le Mans since the company's overall win in 1959 by overcoming the Corvette squad. This feat was repeated once more in 2008 in GT1, while the team also had involvement in the Lola B08/60 LMP1 Coupe run under the Charouz Racing banner

For 2009 Aston Martin Racing entered two of their new prototypes along with Aston Martin Racing Eastern Europe which completed the works trio of DBR1-2 or Lola-Aston Martin B09/60. The team's greatest success with the new prototype came with the 2009 Le Mans Series (LMS) where in the first round in Barcelona the team won the 1000 km de Catalunya outright and with a string of podiums and a 1-2-3 sweep of the ADAC 1000 km Nürburgring and a podium at the Autosport 1000 km of Silverstone sealed the 2009 drivers title for 007 and Jan Charouz, Tomáš Enge, Stefan Mucke and the constructors title for Aston Martin-LOLA as well as the team title for Aston Martin Racing.

Since 2012 Aston Martin Racing has been racing in the FIA World Endurance Championship with the Aston Martin Vantage GTE, earning them several wins and titles. During the inaugural season of the FIA World Endurance Championship in 2012 Aston Martin Racing finished runner-up in the LMGTE Pro Trophy. In 2014 they won the FIA Endurance Trophy for LMGTE Am Teams and Drivers with Danish duo Kristian Poulsen and David Heinemeier Hansson. During the season they also won the 2014 24 Hours of Le Mans in the LMGTE Am category. In 2016 Aston Martin Racing managed to take the crown in the World Endurance Cup for GT Drivers with Nicki Thiim and Marco Sørensen. They also won the LMGTE Pro Teams’ championship. The 2017 season saw them win both the Drivers’ and Teams’ Championship in the GTE Am category. In June 2017 Aston Martin Racing also won the 2017 24 Hours of Le Mans in GTE Pro with Darren Turner, Jonathan Adam and Daniel Serra driving the winning Aston Martin Vantage GTE.

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An Aston Martin Vantage GTE running in the 2016 24 Hours of Le Mans

24 Hours of Le Mans results

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2005 Template:Flagicon Aston Martin Racing 58 Aston Martin DBR9 Template:Flagicon Tomáš Enge
Template:Flagicon Peter Kox
Template:Flagicon Pedro Lamy 		GT1 327 DNF DNF
59 Template:Flagicon David Brabham
Template:Flagicon Stéphane Sarrazin
Template:Flagicon Darren Turner 		333 9th 3rd
2006 Template:Flagicon Aston Martin Racing 007 Aston Martin DBR9 Template:Flagicon Tomáš Enge
Template:Flagicon Andrea Piccini
Template:Flagicon Darren Turner 		GT1 350 6th 2nd
009 Template:Flagicon Pedro Lamy
Template:Flagicon Stéphane Ortelli
Template:Flagicon Stéphane Sarrazin 		342 10th 5th
2007 Template:Flagicon Aston Martin Racing 007 Aston Martin DBR9 Template:Flagicon Tomáš Enge
Template:Flagicon Johnny Herbert
Template:Flagicon Peter Kox 		GT1 337 9th 4th
009 Template:Flagicon David Brabham
Template:Flagicon Rickard Rydell
Template:Flagicon Darren Turner 		343 5th 1st
Template:Flagicon Aston Martin Racing Larbre 006 Template:Flagicon Roland Bervillé
Template:Flagicon Patrick Bornhauser
Template:Flagicon Gregor Fisken 		272 29th 13th
008 Template:Flagicon Christophe Bouchut
Template:Flagicon Casper Elgaard
Template:Flagicon Fabrizio Gollin 		341 7th 3rd
Template:Flagicon Aston Martin Racing BMS 100 Template:Flagicon Fabio Babini
Template:Flagicon Jamie Davies
Template:Flagicon Matteo Malucelli 		336 11th 6th
2008 Template:Flagicon Charouz Racing System
Template:Flagicon Aston Martin Racing 		10 Lola B08/60-Aston Martin Template:Flagicon Jan Charouz
Template:Flagicon Tomáš Enge
Template:Flagicon Stefan Mücke 		LMP1 354 9th 9th
Template:Flagicon Aston Martin Racing 007 Aston Martin DBR9 Template:Flagicon Heinz-Harald Frentzen
Template:Flagicon Andrea Piccini
Template:Flagicon Karl Wendlinger 		GT1 339 16th 4th
009 Template:Flagicon David Brabham
Template:Flagicon Antonio García
Template:Flagicon Darren Turner 		344 13th 1st
2009 Template:Flagicon AMR Eastern Europe 007 Lola-Aston Martin B09/60 Template:Flagicon Jan Charouz
Template:Flagicon Tomáš Enge
Template:Flagicon Stefan Mücke 		LMP1 373 4th 4th
Template:Flagicon Aston Martin Racing 008 Template:Flagicon Anthony Davidson
Template:Flagicon Darren Turner
Template:Flagicon Jos Verstappen 		342 13th 11th
009 Template:Flagicon Stuart Hall
Template:Flagicon Peter Kox
Template:Flagicon Harold Primat 		252 DNF DNF
2010 Template:Flagicon Aston Martin Racing 007 Lola-Aston Martin B09/60 Template:Flagicon Adrián Fernández
Template:Flagicon Stefan Mücke
Template:Flagicon Harold Primat 		LMP1 365 6th 5th
009 Template:Flagicon Juan Barazi
Template:Flagicon Sam Hancock
Template:Flagicon Darren Turner 		368 DNF DNF
Template:Flagicon Signature Plus 008 Template:Flagicon Vanina Ickx
Template:Flagicon Franck Mailleux
Template:Flagicon Pierre Ragues 		302 DNF DNF
Template:Flagicon Young Driver AMR 52 Aston Martin DBR9 Template:Flagicon Tomáš Enge
Template:Flagicon Peter Kox
Template:Flagicon Christoffer Nygaard 		LMGT1 311 22nd 3rd
2011 Template:Flagicon Aston Martin Racing 007 Aston Martin AMR-One Template:Flagicon Christian Klien
Template:Flagicon Stefan Mücke
Template:Flagicon Darren Turner 		LMP1 4 DNF DNF
009 Template:Flagicon Adrián Fernández
Template:Flagicon Andy Meyrick
Template:Flagicon Harold Primat 		2 DNF DNF
Template:Flagicon Kronos Racing[9]
Template:Flagicon Marc VDS Racing Team 		22 Lola-Aston Martin B09/60 Template:Flagicon Vanina Ickx
Template:Flagicon Bas Leinders
Template:Flagicon Maxime Martin 		328 7th 7th
Template:Flagicon Gulf AMR Middle East 60 Aston Martin Vantage GT2 Template:Flagicon Fabien Giroix
Template:Flagicon Roald Goethe
Template:Flagicon Michael Wainwright 		LMGTE Am 141 DNF DNF
2012 Template:Flagicon Aston Martin Racing 97 Aston Martin Vantage GTE Template:Flagicon Adrián Fernández
Template:Flagicon Stefan Mücke
Template:Flagicon Darren Turner 		LMGTE Pro 332 19th 3rd
99 Template:Flagicon Christoffer Nygaard
Template:Flagicon Kristian Poulsen
Template:Flagicon Allan Simonsen 		LMGTE Am 31 DNF DNF
2013 Template:Flagicon Aston Martin Racing 97 Aston Martin Vantage GTE Template:Flagicon Peter Dumbreck
Template:Flagicon Stefan Mücke
Template:Flagicon Darren Turner 		LMGTE Pro 314 17th 3rd
98 Template:Flagicon Bill Auberlen
Template:Flagicon Paul Dalla Lana
Template:Flagicon Pedro Lamy 		221 DNF DNF
99 Template:Flagicon Rob Bell
Template:Flagicon Frédéric Makowiecki
Template:Flagicon Bruno Senna 		248 DNF DNF
95 Template:Flagicon Christoffer Nygaard
Template:Flagicon Kristian Poulsen
Template:Flagicon Allan Simonsen 		LMGTE Am 2 DNF DNF
96 Template:Flagicon Jamie Campbell-Walter
Template:Flagicon Roald Goethe
Template:Flagicon Stuart Hall 		301 30th 6th
2014 Template:Flagicon Aston Martin Racing 97 Aston Martin Vantage GTE Template:Flagicon Stefan Mücke
Template:Flagicon Bruno Senna
Template:Flagicon Darren Turner 		LMGTE Pro 310 35th 6th
99 Template:Flagicon Alex MacDowall
Template:Flagicon Darryl O'Young
Template:Flagicon Fernando Rees 		0 WD WD
95 Template:Flagicon David Heinemeier Hansson
Template:Flagicon Kristian Poulsen
Template:Flagicon Nicki Thiim 		LMGTE Am 334 19th 1st
98 Template:Flagicon Paul Dalla Lana
Template:Flagicon Pedro Lamy
Template:Flagicon Christoffer Nygaard 		329 26th 6th
2015 Template:Flagicon Aston Martin Racing V8 99 Aston Martin Vantage GTE Template:Flagicon Alex MacDowall
Template:Flagicon Fernando Rees
Template:Flagicon Richie Stanaway 		LMGTE Pro 320 34th 6th
Template:Flagicon Aston Martin Racing 95 Template:Flagicon Christoffer Nygaard
Template:Flagicon Marco Sørensen
Template:Flagicon Nicki Thiim 		330 27th 4th
97 Template:Flagicon Rob Bell
Template:Flagicon Stefan Mücke
Template:Flagicon Darren Turner 		110 DNF DNF
96 Template:Flagicon Francesco Castellacci
Template:Flagicon Roald Goethe
Template:Flagicon Stuart Hall 		LMGTE Am 187 DNF DNF
98 Template:Flagicon Paul Dalla Lana
Template:Flagicon Pedro Lamy
Template:Flagicon Mathias Lauda 		321 NC NC
2016 Template:Flagicon Aston Martin Racing 95 Aston Martin Vantage GTE Template:Flagicon Marco Sørensen
Template:Flagicon Nicki Thiim
Template:Flagicon Darren Turner 		LMGTE Pro 338 23rd 5th
97 Template:Flagicon Jonathan Adam
Template:Flagicon Fernando Rees
Template:Flagicon Richie Stanaway 		337 24th 6th
98 Template:Flagicon Paul Dalla Lana
Template:Flagicon Pedro Lamy
Template:Flagicon Mathias Lauda 		LMGTE Am 281 DNF DNF
99 Template:Flagicon Liam Griffin
Template:Flagicon Gary Hirsch
Template:Flagicon Andrew Howard 		318 36th 7th
2017 Template:Flagicon Aston Martin Racing 95 Aston Martin Vantage GTE Template:Flagicon Marco Sørensen
Template:Flagicon Richie Stanaway
Template:Flagicon Nicki Thiim 		LMGTE Pro 334 25th 9th
97 Template:Flagicon Jonathan Adam
Template:Flagicon Daniel Serra
Template:Flagicon Darren Turner 		340 17th 1st
98 Template:Flagicon Paul Dalla Lana
Template:Flagicon Pedro Lamy
Template:Flagicon Mathias Lauda 		LMGTE Am 329 36th 8th
Template:Flagicon Beechdean AMR 99 Template:Flagicon Oliver Bryant
Template:Flagicon Ross Gunn
Template:Flagicon Andrew Howard 		331 30th 4th
2018 Template:Flagicon Aston Martin Racing 95 Aston Martin Vantage AMR Template:Flagicon Marco Sørensen
Template:Flagicon Nicki Thiim
Template:Flagicon Darren Turner 		LMGTE Pro 339 23rd 8th
97 Template:Flagicon Jonathan Adam
Template:Flagicon Alex Lynn
Template:Flagicon Maxime Martin 		327 37th 13th
98 Aston Martin Vantage GTE Template:Flagicon Paul Dalla Lana
Template:Flagicon Pedro Lamy
Template:Flagicon Mathias Lauda 		LMGTE Am 92 DNF DNF
2019 Template:Flagicon Aston Martin Racing 95 Aston Martin Vantage AMR Template:Flagicon Marco Sørensen
Template:Flagicon Nicki Thiim
Template:Flagicon Darren Turner 		LMGTE Pro 132 DNF DNF
97 Template:Flagicon Jonathan Adam
Template:Flagicon Alex Lynn
Template:Flagicon Maxime Martin 		325 44th 12th
98 Aston Martin Vantage GTE Template:Flagicon Paul Dalla Lana
Template:Flagicon Pedro Lamy
Template:Flagicon Mathias Lauda 		LMGTE Am 87 DNF DNF
2020 Template:Flagicon Aston Martin Racing 95 Aston Martin Vantage AMR Template:Flagicon Marco Sørensen
Template:Flagicon Nicki Thiim
Template:Flagicon Richard Westbrook 		LMGTE Pro 343 22nd 3rd
97 Template:Flagicon Alex Lynn
Template:Flagicon Maxime Martin
Template:Flagicon Harry Tincknell 		346 20th 1st
98 Template:Flagicon Paul Dalla Lana
Template:Flagicon Augusto Farfus
Template:Flagicon Ross Gunn 		LMGTE Am 333 33rd 8th
2021 Template:Flagicon Aston Martin Racing 98 Aston Martin Vantage AMR Template:Flagicon Paul Dalla Lana
Template:Flagicon Marcos Gomes
Template:Flagicon Nicki Thiim 		LMGTE Am 45 DNF DNF
2022 Template:Flagicon NorthWest AMR 98 Aston Martin Vantage AMR Template:Flagicon Paul Dalla Lana
Template:Flagicon David Pittard
Template:Flagicon Nicki Thiim 		LMGTE Am 342 36th 3rd
2023 Template:Flagicon NorthWest AMRTemplate:Efn 98 Aston Martin Vantage AMR Template:Flagicon Ian James
Template:Flagicon Daniel Mancinelli
Template:Flagicon Alex Riberas 		LMGTE Am 310 33rd 6th
2024 Template:Flagicon Heart of Racing Team[10] 27 Aston Martin Vantage AMR GT3 Evo Template:Flagicon Ian James
Template:Flagicon Daniel Mancinelli
Template:Flagicon Alex Riberas 		LMGT3 196 DNF DNF
Template:Flagicon D'station Racing[10] 777 Template:Flagicon Erwan Bastard
Template:Flagicon Satoshi Hoshino
Template:Flagicon Marco Sørensen 		279 36th 9th
2025 Template:Flagicon Aston Martin THOR Team 007 Aston Martin Valkyrie Template:Flagicon Tom Gamble
Template:Flagicon Ross Gunn
Template:Flagicon Harry Tincknell 		Hypercar 381 14th 14th
009 Template:Flagicon Roman De Angelis
Template:Flagicon Alex Riberas
Template:Flagicon Marco Sørensen 		383 12th 12th
Template:Flagicon Racing Spirit of Léman 10 Aston Martin Vantage AMR GT3 Evo Template:Flagicon Eduardo Barrichello
Template:Flagicon Derek DeBoer
Template:Flagicon Valentin Hasse-Clot 		LMGT3 336 45th 13th
Template:Flagicon Heart of Racing Team 27 Template:Flagicon Mattia Drudi
Template:Flagicon Ian James
Template:Flagicon Zacharie Robichon 		341 36th 4th

Notes

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