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Aston Martin DBR9

Aston Martin has apparent the DBR9, which will spearhead the British marque's acknowledgment to all-embracing motor antagonism in 2005.

The car was apparent to a called admirers for the aboriginal time on 4th November 2004 at Aston Martin's address at Gaydon in the UK. An accelerated testing programme now follows for Aston Martin Antagonism above-mentioned to the DBR9's admission chase appointed for the 12 hours of Sebring, Florida, in March 2005.

Aston Martin Antagonism will run two cars at Sebring and afresh move to Europe to adapt for the Le Mans 24 hours in June 2005. This will mark Aston Martin's acknowledgment to the chase which was won absolute in 1959 with Roy Salvadori and Carroll Shelby. In acceptance of this, the DBR9 will chase the Le Mans-winning DBR1 and Works DB3S and backpack the aforementioned blooming and chicken accouter as the cars which bedeviled sports car antagonism in the backward 1950s.

Aston Martin Antagonism will anatomy 12 Works cars, which will be run by three Works teams in the above all-embracing GT series. A bound run of alone 20 antagonism cars, able to the aforementioned specification, will additionally be congenital and fabricated accessible to called barter to chase or accumulate in clandestine collections.

The DBR9 GT antagonism car is based on the most recent Aston Martin assembly sports car - the DB9 - but is decidedly adapted for antagonism use. The DB9's bonded-aluminium anatomy architectonics is aggregate with the DBR9 and provides both with a failing adamant chassis. The chase agent uses the aforementioned aluminium butt block and arch as the DB9's 450 bhp 6-litre V12 unit, but with antagonism modification it is accepted to aftermath in the arena of 600 bhp.

The DB9's bifold wishbone abeyance agreement is retained on the DBR9, but appearance uprated apparatus and a revised geometry for antagonism purposes. Formula One appearance carbon brakes are adapted advanced and rear and a competition, six-speed consecutive gearbox is army at the rear axle.

The DBR9 was styled by Aston Martin Racing's own architecture aggregation who fabricated all-encompassing use of Computational Fluid Dynamics to optimise the aerodynamics afore bearing the final anatomy surface. The panels are duke fabricated from carbon-fibre composite, allowance the car to accommodated its 1,100 kg minimum weight and giving it a ability to weight arrangement of 550 bhp per tonne - added than bifold that of the alley car.

Dr Ulrich Bez, Chief Executive Officer of Aston Martin, said: "We charge to actualize acute acquaintance for Aston Martin about the apple and motor action will acquiesce us to do this.

"We took four years to acquisition the ideal accomplice in David Richards and Prodrive and calm accept created Aston Martin Racing. The DBR9 is the aboriginal footfall in our acknowledgment to motor action and I apperceive that our barter and enthusiasts akin are attractive advanced to seeing Aston Martin antagonism afresh at an all-embracing akin in 2005."
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