What is Aston Martin up to? - Page 139

Victor_RO · 14 Aug 2011, 20:57 (Ref:2939644)

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Originally Posted by alexkiller8

The first is the B0960-HU03S used at 2010 8h of paul ricard, 2010 1000km of spa and 2010 24h of le mans; unused after le mans who know why, maybe gone destroyed in somehow in a paul ricard test (racingsportscars says that this chassis has taken part twice at PR)

Took heavy damage in a race-ending crash at Le Mans itself, however that chassis eventually ended up with Kronos and was raced this year as well at Le Mans. Probably took a long time to get repaired after its 2010 incidents.

WMUCarGuy · 14 Aug 2011, 21:05 (Ref:2939649)

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Originally Posted by Victor_RO

Took heavy damage in a race-ending crash at Le Mans itself, however that chassis eventually ended up with Kronos and was raced this year as well at Le Mans. Probably took a long time to get repaired after its 2010 incidents.

Do you have some record or Kronos going back to the 09 chassis? I could imagine Signature Plus needing a second chassis following a Le Mans crash if they wrote it off, but they had the new '10 chassis, why would Kronos have gone back to the wrecked '09 car?

Victor_RO · 14 Aug 2011, 21:09 (Ref:2939651)

Well.. according to RSC, B0960-HU03S was the chassis that they used up to Le Mans 2010, and we know how their race ended (one of the drivers stuffed it into the wall at the first chicane, crawled back to the pits, retired with accident damage). And since you're saying in the list that B0960-HU03S is the chassis that Kronos/MarcVDS used for this year's race, then... yeah, someone must have bothered to pay for repairing that car.

It showed up at the Le Mans test in the old Signature Plus colours as well... minus all the sponsorship logos.

WMUCarGuy · 14 Aug 2011, 22:10 (Ref:2939677)

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Originally Posted by Victor_RO

Well.. according to RSC, B0960-HU03S was the chassis that they used up to Le Mans 2010, and we know how their race ended (one of the drivers stuffed it into the wall at the first chicane, crawled back to the pits, retired with accident damage). And since you're saying in the list that B0960-HU03S is the chassis that Kronos/MarcVDS used for this year's race, then... yeah, someone must have bothered to pay for repairing that car.

It showed up at the Le Mans test in the old Signature Plus colours as well... minus all the sponsorship logos.

I wasn't aware that Signature Plus ran a different chassis (B10/60-HU01S) at the rounds after Le Mans. Now that I am, I'm suspecting that the car they ran at Le Mans was a write off and that Signature Plus ran a new tub (B10/60-HU01S) at all rounds after after that. If that is correct, I would suspect that Kronos actually entered B10/60-HU01S at Le Mans this year as well.

Victor_RO · 14 Aug 2011, 22:12 (Ref:2939679)

Well... we'll see when RSC gets the pages updated with the correct chassis numbers for this year then.

WMUCarGuy · 14 Aug 2011, 22:17 (Ref:2939680)

So this may be how it actually looks:

- B08/60-HU02 (DBR1/2-4) - Originally the Charouz entered Lola with the Aston V12. Run at the Nurburgring and Silverstone in 2008. Then became one of the factory Lola Astons. Was run in the 2009 LMS and 24 Hours of Le Mans.
- B09/60-HU01 (DBR1/2-2) - Destroyed in testing. Car rebuilt as B09/60-HU01S
- B09/60-HU01S (DBR1/2-2) - Built from the wreckage of B09/60-HU01. Run in the Le Mans Series and 24 Hours of Le Mans in 2009 and 2010. Currently being run by AMR Team Cytosport
- B09/60-HU02 (DBR1/2-1) - Destroyed in testing. Car rebuilt as B09/60-HU02S
- B09/60-HU02S (DBR1/2-1) - Built from the wreckage of B09/60-HU02. Run by the factory as car #007 in the Le Mans Series and the 24 Hours of Le Mans for 2009 and 2010. This is the car that the factory team will run at races later this year
- B09/60-HU03S (DBR1/2-3) - Built for Signature Plus, destroyed at Le Mans 2010. Car rebuilt as B10/60-HU01S
- B10/60-HU01S (DBR1/2-3) - Built from the wreckage of B09/60-HU03S. Run by Signature Plus at LMS events after Le Mans and then at Le Mans in 2011 by Kronos Racing.

I've also been intrigued as to why the Signature Plus car was built as B09/60-HU03S in the first place. As far as I know, it was built as a new chassis for Signature Plus and Drayson's Lola was B09/60-HU03.

photopigg · 15 Aug 2011, 08:22 (Ref:2939810)

sorry to throw another spanner in the works, but I think that Prodrive have a "show car" in there heritage centre which apparently has been made up of parts that have raced, the tub might be the one that Thomas Enge crashed at Paul Ricard when they first ran in Gulf colours (I am more than happy to be corrected) and that they is a another car at Aston martin HQ in Gaydon ( http://www.facebook.com/home.php#!/p...type=1&theater ) we know that AMR/Prodrive have 1 left as mention earlier in this thread by acox93, Cytosport have got 1, Kronos have got 1, so Guess the question is where are the other 2???

Victor_RO · 15 Aug 2011, 08:41 (Ref:2939816)

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Originally Posted by photopigg

sorry to throw another spanner in the works, but I think that Prodrive have a "show car" in there heritage centre which apparently has been made up of parts that have raced, the tub might be the one that Thomas Enge crashed at Paul Ricard when they first ran in Gulf colours (I am more than happy to be corrected) and that they is a another car at Aston martin HQ in Gaydon ( http://www.facebook.com/home.php#!/p...type=1&theater ) we know that AMR/Prodrive have 1 left as mention earlier in this thread by acox93, Cytosport have got 1, Kronos have got 1, so Guess the question is where are the other 2???

Written off in crashes probably... or already in the hands of private collectors.

AstonGeoff · 15 Aug 2011, 12:14 (Ref:2939931)

Quote:

Originally Posted by photopigg

sorry to throw another spanner in the works, but I think that Prodrive have a "show car" in there heritage centre which apparently has been made up of parts that have raced, the tub might be the one that Thomas Enge crashed at Paul Ricard when they first ran in Gulf colours (I am more than happy to be corrected) and that they is a another car at Aston martin HQ in Gaydon ( http://www.facebook.com/home.php#!/p...type=1&theater ) we know that AMR/Prodrive have 1 left as mention earlier in this thread by acox93, Cytosport have got 1, Kronos have got 1, so Guess the question is where are the other 2???

There wasn't a Lola Aston in the Prodrive Heritage Centre when I went there back in July. Only Aston's were a LM Class winning DBR9 (in green) and a GT4 Vantage.

As far as I know there are only three actual Lola Astons these days after all the crashes and rebuilds, One running in ALMS, the one run by Kronos at LM, and one still in Gulf colours but in a private collection, I'm guessing it's the last one that AMR will run for the remainder of the season.

alexkiller8 · 15 Aug 2011, 12:53 (Ref:2939950)

well, can be asked to the collectionist to make tun that car just for the final rounds of ILMC.... a thing like that has been done also last year with the #14 phoenix corvette if i remember well

JAG · 15 Aug 2011, 16:19 (Ref:2940064)

One of the issues regarding the AMR-One seems to be Astons need to put a race history on the chassis.

If that isn't done AMR's business model for future projects would be questioned. You would think this gives them even more reason to make the AMR-One work.

Graham Goodwin · 15 Aug 2011, 17:42 (Ref:2940100)

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Originally Posted by AstonGeoff

There wasn't a Lola Aston in the Prodrive Heritage Centre when I went there back in July. Only Aston's were a LM Class winning DBR9 (in green) and a GT4 Vantage.
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There was one there today!

And two chassis in the workshop - 03S as a bare tub and 02S being built up for Silverstone

WMUCarGuy · 15 Aug 2011, 19:05 (Ref:2940134)

Quote:

Originally Posted by photopigg

sorry to throw another spanner in the works, but I think that Prodrive have a "show car" in there heritage centre which apparently has been made up of parts that have raced, the tub might be the one that Thomas Enge crashed at Paul Ricard when they first ran in Gulf colours (I am more than happy to be corrected) and that they is a another car at Aston martin HQ in Gaydon ( http://www.facebook.com/home.php#!/p...type=1&theater ) we know that AMR/Prodrive have 1 left as mention earlier in this thread by acox93, Cytosport have got 1, Kronos have got 1, so Guess the question is where are the other 2???

I would be very surprised if Charouz didn't have one in his collection.

WMUCarGuy · 15 Aug 2011, 19:07 (Ref:2940136)

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Originally Posted by Graham Goodwin

There was one there today!

And two chassis in the workshop - 03S as a bare tub and 02S being built up for Silverstone

03S as in the one Signature Plus ran for the first half of last year?

Graham Goodwin · 16 Aug 2011, 14:51 (Ref:2941747)

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Originally Posted by WMUCarGuy

03S as in the one Signature Plus ran for the first half of last year?

03S as in that's what it said on the Lola Chassis plate

Tom908V12 · 16 Aug 2011, 15:41 (Ref:2941765)

The "official" Lola Aston appears on latest entrylist of Silverstone 6h(updated 12th august)

knighty · 24 Aug 2011, 19:56 (Ref:2945296)

While I often find myself defending AMRs LMP1 engine on this forum........ I stumbled accross this link today, and I hate to admit I did have a chuckle to myself.....looks like that project came in real handy for prodrive and aston martin.......cough cough cough.........

.......enjoy

http://encyclopaedic.org/research.aspx

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JAG · 24 Aug 2011, 20:12 (Ref:2945310)

Testing at Barcelona.

http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pi...d=136975802443

TF110 · 25 Aug 2011, 17:00 (Ref:2945775)

Diveplane missing on the left? (our right) Any updates to this car? Will they beat the Toyotas? Still beautiful to see.

Fogelhund · 25 Aug 2011, 17:27 (Ref:2945794)

I might have missed it, but there was the recent announcement of the new Aston Martin Vantage GT3. There are some renderings on Facebook, done by Endurance Crea, the Monster version in particular looks good.

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Aston-...type=1&theater

TF110 · 25 Aug 2011, 20:09 (Ref:2945883)

Rear wing mounts look terrible, maybe better function? Though the first picture of those 3 looks like the wing is different and not as tall. Hopefully it goes well and can be used for GTE as well.

Tim the Grey · 26 Aug 2011, 14:13 (Ref:2946359)

There's a full, and quite entertaining, article on DSC...

JayBMS · 1 Sep 2011, 21:42 (Ref:2949640)

Could be nothing but one of the Young Driver GT1 cars will be running in Gulf colors for the rest of the season. Could Gulf not happy with the publicity from the AMR-One?

Link

alexkiller8 · 2 Sep 2011, 09:02 (Ref:2949786)

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Originally Posted by JayBMS

Could be nothing but one of the Young Driver GT1 cars will be running in Gulf colors for the rest of the season. Could Gulf not happy with the publicity from the AMR-One?

Link

or maybe because 2 races in china may mean a lot of promotional view for the gulf company.

NelisB · 2 Sep 2011, 11:19 (Ref:2949825)

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Originally Posted by alexkiller8

or maybe because 2 races in china may mean a lot of promotional view for the gulf company.

Still one of the best color schemes out there.

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