Born on this day in 1922, Roy Salvadori was part of the last Aston Martin team to claim an overall Le Mans win, in 1959. His victorious DBR1 was among three legendary racing Astons assembled by Motor Sport for one of our most memorable track tests — with a surprise appearance by the then-reigning F1 champiom
We coasted up the pit lane, the Aston Martin DBR1 and I, engine now silent. Helmet in the passenger seat, I listened to the utter silence in my ears that followed 10 laps of unsilenced mayhem as surely as night follows day. This very car won six of the DBR1's eight world championship victories including, of course, the 1959 Le Mans 24-Hours.
I parked it next to the DB3S, registration 62 EMU. It saw the Le Mans podium too, the year before the DBR 1, with a fine and fighting second place despite its then five-year-old design. The visual comparison between Aston Martin's two finest sports-racing cars is utterly compelling. Yet now, no-one crowds around either of them. Everyone is standing beside the DB4GT Zagato: Jim Clark's immortal 2 VEV.
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