Aston Martin Racing

United Kingdom Aston Martin Racing
Founded2004
Team principal(s)Paul Howarth
Current seriesFIA World Endurance Championship
Former seriesAmerican Le Mans Series, Le Mans Series, GT4 European Cup
Noted driversIan James, Daniel Mancinelli, Alex Riberas
Aston Martin Racing's DBR9 which won the 2007 24 Hours of Le Mans LMGT1 Class
Sponsored by Gulf Oil, one of Aston Martin Racing's 2008 DBR9
An Aston Martin-powered Lola B08/60 run by Charouz Racing System and backed by Aston Martin Racing
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. 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.

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,[1] 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.

  1. ^ "Richards keen on Formula One return". BBC News. 23 April 2009. Retrieved 1 January 2010.