The great Carroll Shelby was born on this day in 1923. A Le Mans winner with Aston Martin, his latter F1 outings were limited to a few appearances in the DBR4. The car could have made the brand successful in grand prix racing too, but a delayed debut rendered it obsolete
The winter of 1957-58 must have been an interesting time for John Wyer and David Brown, the men charged with determining the future direction of Aston Martin's racing endeavours. Some might even say that, for the first time in its competition history, Aston Martin actually had a nice problem with which to grapple.
Tradition said it should devote all its efforts to sports car racing. The DB3S had been one of those agonising nearly-but-not-quite cars, but the still-fresh DBR1 was at last showing signs of realising the promise it had contained from the start. The opportunity of at last claiming the world sports car championship from arch-rivals Ferrari was real and evident...
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