#pescarolo

Photo credit Aurélien Vialatte From one end of the spectrum to the other, we get the ill-fated Aston Martin AMR-One: a failure so spectacular neither of the two prototypes managed to put in a combined total of six laps around the circuit in the 2011 24 Hours of Le Mans. The promise of the Aston Martin DBR1-2 had motivated the Racing Green fan favorites to build a new car fit for the changing regulations, downsizing from the wailing V12 engine to a rather shaky inline-6 that would at least give a wonderful symphony if anything.

The car's pace would be catastrophic, falling very short of the top times at the 6 Hours of Castellet and finding itself in the midst of LMP2 traffic in qualifying, then coming up short as a non-classification. It exited with a whimper at Le Mans, qualifying a staggering 20 seconds behind the R18 on pole. The #009 retired from engine troubles only two laps into the event, whilst the #007 met its cruel fate only two laps after at lap four, spending hours in the garage until they finally gave in.

Photo credit Tom Schwede - 1300ccm.de

Aston Martin would replace the car with their previous DBR1-2 after a handful of DNS results and would, colloquially, take the project behind the shed by January 2012. One chassis would go to the Deltawing project whilst the other, strangely, went to Pescarolo.

Un baptêmes de pilotage sur le circuit des 24 Heures du Mans a gagner dans la Valise RTL.