In the three-liter class, one of sports racing’s most competitive, Britain’s Aston Martin fancied its chances in international racing from...
1969 Mirage M2-BRM The Mirage profiled here is no optical illusion, although it is certainly as beautiful as some optical...
Mike Lawrence There is plenty to celebrate about Aston Martin, not least its survival skills as the automotive Houdini. A question remains: Why it was so unsuccessful in racing during most of the 1950s? Had it been better managed, it should have vied with Ferrari. David Brown had inherited an industrial...
The annual support race at the 24 Hours of Le Mans is one of the most important events in all...
Just days after his 1959 Le Mans-winning teammate, Carroll Shelby, and a matter of weeks since Ted Cutting, designer of the DBR1, both died, Roy Salvadori passed away. Despite his Italian surname and parentage, Roy Salvadori was born in the small seaside town of Dovercourt, Essex, England, and always looked...
Carroll ShelbyPhoto: Jim Williams In observance of Carroll Shelby’s recent passing, VR is presenting an edited combination of the interviews...
Les Leston was born in 1920 named Alfred Lazarus Fingleston. He worked in the motor accessory business and was an...
Ted Cutting, the man who designed the Aston Martin DBR1 that took Carroll Shelby and Roy Salvadori to victory at Le Mans over 50 years ago, has died. It is little known, but due to a fact-finding visit to Maserati, initiated by John Wyer, he didn’t see his cars cross...
February 2011 Inside the Archives By Jesse Alexander Looking through stacks of old photographs I’m often struck by generally unseen...
Wealthy Belgian aristocrat Olivier Gendebien has the unique distinction of being Ferrari’s most successful GT and sports car racer. He...
The Simeone Foundation Automotive Museum in Philadelphia has been holding a series of “Demonstration Days,” at noon on the fourth Saturday of each month, with the program running through October. Each individual event features two or more racing sports cars from the Museum’s collection, making it one of the few...
1957 Aston Martin DBR1 Aston Martin’s relationship with the 24 Hours of Le Mans goes all the way back to...
One of a baker’s dozen of American citizens to have won the 24 Hours of Le Mans overall, Carroll Shelby...
This month marks the 50th anniversary of Aston Martin’s one and only victory at Le Mans. With such a major milestone for the Newport Pagnell manufacturer, we were very honored when they approached us about producing a special issue devoted to this win, as well as their rich racing history....
Tall, handsome, and charming, Roy Salvadori was everything Hollywood ever wanted a racing driver to be. He was a ’50s–’60s...
My racing Astons started in 1953, and although the first year brought some results, there wasn’t a win until 1955,...
My brief motor racing career started somewhat by accident. In 1954 I purchase a secondhand Aston Martin DB2/4 from Brooklands of Bond Street; the car came with a one-year membership to the Aston Martin Owner’s Club. Reading the AMOC booklet I noticed there was a race meeting at Snetterton in...
During the fifties, Aston Martin produced sports cars with the designation, DB, which, of course, stands for David Brown. In...
I became interested in motor racing during the one brief period when Aston Martin was really something special. There was...
June 2009 Spewing flame on a downshift, Carroll Shelby presses onward with the Aston Martin DBR1 at Goodwood’s six-hour Tourist Trophy race on September 5, 1959. Joined by Stirling Moss, he and Jack Fairman won the race to give Aston the 1959 World Sports Car Championship. Photo courtesy of: THE...
Le Mans champion Roy Salvadori once wrote in a UK magazine, decades ago, about driving his winning Aston Martin DBR1...
The Nürburgring 1000-km Race; Nürburgring, June 7, 1959. Jean Behra (right) has just leaped out of his Ferrari 250TR/59 as co-driver Tony Brooks fills the tank. They would finish 3rd behind the sister car of Phill Hill and Olivier Gendebien while the Aston Martin DBR1 of Stirling Moss and Jack...
