They say that a picture paints a thousand words and the above photograph appears to certainly do that!

With racing duties in the Asian Le Mans Series and Rolex 24 already under their belts this year and with significant increases in their World Endurances Championship, the European Le Mans Series and Le Mans commitments this season, the above image sees Tom Ferrier’s team TF Sport offer for sale both of their Aston Martin Racing V8 Vantage GT4’s.

Previously used with Championship winning results for Tom Canning/Ash Hand in 2019 and then with Jamie Caroline/Dan Vaughan last season, it appears that TF Sports British GT Championship steam roller machine will now take something of a sabbatical from the Championship with the sale of both GT4 machines on Racecarsdirect.com

If you’re interested in getting a deal as you want to go racing (or just have some fun at a track) then look no further than David Appleby Engineering’s offer of two 2019 specification Aston Martin Racing V8 Vantage GT4’s for just £300k + vat for the pair!

Previously used by the team in several European series as well bespoke events such as the  Dubai 24 and the Gulf 12Hr, these two cars unfortunately saw little race mileage last year but have been maintained regardless of cost by the owner and are now being offered to interested parties as a pair together with an additional spares and equipment package (with an extra charge) if required at a substantial saving to cost price.

With the global GT market getting more ‘switched on’ to the cost benefits in racing GT4 cars as opposed to higher classes of race car, these two cars would be immediately on the pace in any series around the world and is already a proven Championship winner.

Further details are available via https://racecarsdirect.com/Advert/Details/117183/2-x-aston-martin-vantage-gt4-2020-specificati

Photo credits – Racecar Direct / Gulf 12Hr

 

Having been first made available for sale event before the end of last season sees this week German based PROsport Racing re-advertised for sale their pair of Aston Martin Racing V8 Vantage GT3's that the team competed with in the ADAC GT Masters Series.

It was originally thought that the cars were disposed of when the PROsport Performance team nam went out of business - but obviously not. Now we are wondering what happened with their second AMR Vantage GT4? They retain one that PROsport Racing use in 24H Series, GT Cup Open, etc.

Full details available https://racecarsdirect.com/Advert/Details/115915/amr-gt3-16-a-for-sale

Racing classics don't come up for sale too often but for those with the required level of disposable income, here in another chance to purchase an iconic pice of Aston Martin Racing history.

Chassis AMRVANTAGEGT3-006 is beast that stole the imagination of the race fans as they affectionately named her 'Billie' as she competed in races 9amongst others) like the ADAC Zurich N24 with a full list of AMR factory drivers such as Darren Turner, Stefan Mucke, Allan Simonsen and Pedro Lamy.


Since those heady days, the car has changed ownership several times between the likes of Paul White, Alex Lienau before residing with its current owner Mike Gensemeyer and his BritecMotorsport outfit.

Not afraid to race such beauties, one of the last races that this car competed in was the HSR Classic from Sebring, Florida in 2019.

Full details of the sale can be found at https://www.classic-trader.com/au/cars/listing/aston-martin/vantage/v12-vantage-gt3/2013/203147?fbclid=IwAR1rZZrl2XqslCbqgxQsj0kNvqOaKi9H0Z3cUZmRV7ub11yufOehkjabj5U

Oh the memories!!

Photo credits - Britec Motorsport

One of only ten such examples ever made by Aston Martin Racing, Racecarsdirect.com are listing for sale one such example of this rare breed - the DBR9 GT1.

Raced for the last few seasons within both the Masters Historic and the Peter Auto Endurance Legends Series, we last saw this car compete with its present owner Dominic Roschmann at the Aston Martin Festival at Le Mans in 2018 where the car finished third overall in that race behind  race winners Peter Dumbreck/Chris Harris in their Aston Martin Vulcan and second placed Benny Simonsen and Lasse Sorensen in their AMR Vantage GTE.



Original built as chassis nine, this cars racing career lasting just two seasons before a substantial accident at the 2007 Spa 24hr that warranted a complete chassis change by Prodrive but despite this work, the chassis retained its DBR9/9 numbering. The damaged chassis is even included in this sale.

Full details can be found Here

Having only raced in the German DTM Series for just one season last year, it was thought that all four of R-Motorsports Aston Martin silhouetted race cars had been sold into private ownership.

That may have been true but this week sees all four cars appear again appear for sale on the Racecarsdirect.com website via the teams former engine building partner HWA AG. After failed attempts to secure a new engine supplier for the 2020 season, the Swiss based team ultimately announced a termination to their DTM ambitions at the beginning of the year.

Full details can be found https://racecarsdirect.com/Advert/Details/112942/aston-martin-vantage-dtm

Refreshingly nothing to do with the world's ongoing medical issues sees the O'Brien family offer for sale the Aston Martin Racing V8 Vantage GT4 that young Connor raced along with Jack Butel in last years British GT Championship.

Although originally re-signed with the Optimum Motorsport team for the 2020 season, their change to the McLaren chassis lead to O'Brien switching to the 2019 British GT GT3 and GT4 Championship winning team TF Sport where he now joins up with Patrick Kibble - hence the sale.

Full listing details can be found at https://racecarsdirect.com/Advert/Details/112674/aston-martin-vantage-gt4-2019---chassis-005

Ever puzzled what to buy your motorsport fan friend as a Christmas present, then look no further than the opening pages of Racecarsdirect.com and you will soon come up with an idea to two.

Firstly, we have Barcelona based Team Virage offering one of their two recent Aston Martin Racing V8 Vantage GT4 acquisitions up for sale. Having taken possession of two such cars mid way into 2019, the team had hoped to enter both cars with long standing team customers in regional series including the SRO sanctioned GT4 South Europe Series.


From what we have seen, they have only managed to enter both cars for just one round with the main stay customers (Freddie Hunt and CO Jones as reported last week) now looking towards the teams other platform of motor racing in LMP3 so this car is now presumably surplus to their requirements.

Full details of their listing can be found HERE


The next new offering took us a little by purpose and lies in the form of the Aston Martin Racing V8 Vantage GT3 as used this season by Ollie Wilkinson in both the British GT Championship and GT Open Series.

Operated out of the Optimum Motorsport workshop, Wilkinson went on to clinch the British GT GT3 Silver Cup prize will co driver Bradley Ellis whilst securing podium finishes, including an overall race win whilst under the tutorage of AMR factory drivers Darren Turner and Jonny Adam.


There is obviously a story yet to be confirmed behind the reason for this sale - we are certainly not going to pretend to know what it is all about but we do understand that matters may become a little clearer before the end of the year by which time we expect to have had an announcement from Wilkinson.

Full details of this Christmas cracker can be found HERE

Photo credits - Team Virage

Being listed for sale on Racecarsdirect.com at the moment is a rare opportunity of skipping what is potentially still a very long waiting list at the Prodrive factory to secure yourself an almost mint example of a 2019 specification Aston Martin Racing V8 Vantage GT4.

Purchased by the David Appleby Engineering team, the team who prepare cars for the Generation AMR SuperRacing Team as part of a previously cancelled order from another Partner team, this chassis has only conducted a brief test at the Silverstone Circuit by the team just after they received both chassis from Prodrive earlier this year. The black Vantage in the background is the car the drivers James Holder and Matt George use in the GT4 European Series as well as the French FFSA GT Championships and will be retained by the team.

Since then, the car has only been taken to race events being competed in by Holder and George as a rolling spare but now the car is being offered for sale.


This was the car that TF Sport had enquired about using last weekend had they not been able to resolve the fuel tank/pump issue that was being experienced on the #97 car after Qualifying at Brands Hatch on Saturday. That request was never made in the end as firstly the problem was eventually rectified but also because the car may not have been allowed to run with TF Sport anyway at the Brands Hatch event due to the former chassis having already qualified.

We also understand that had David Appleby Engineering not have purchased the chassis when they did then it may well have ended up in the British GT Championship as part of a three car team effort and then, that team wasn't the only ones after it!!!

Always next year.........................!!

Full details can be found https://racecarsdirect.com/Advert/Details/105163/2019-aston-martin-vantage-gt4

Photo credits - DAE

On the subject of the Aston Martin Racing Festival from Le Mans next month, hows about chipping into to purchasing this fully rebuilt AMR V8 Vantage GT4 having watched its current owner race it at  the Circuit de La Sarthe.

Fully rebuilt to zero miles ready for the 2018 calendar, this 22GT Racing prepared is available to buy straight after the Festival event and the owner invites you down to Le Mans to watch it with a full AMR Hospitality package thrown in to boot!

Full details can be found HERE

Perusing the classifieds last night quickly led to some frantic social media communication with some around the other side of the world in order to dispel our initial fears.

Listed on the Racecardirect.com web site this week were two Aston Martin Racing cars from Miedecke Stone Motorsport - a team who have taken something of a step back from competitive motorsport in 2017.

Thankfully George Miedecke confirmed late last night that the sale of two of teams four cars are being listed for sale as a simple rationalisation of asset before final decisions on prospective plans for 2018 are committed to. The team retains two V12 Vantage GT3's.

Being listed is the teams number #11 chassis - fully rebuilt and upgraded since its third place result last time out at the 2016 Australian GT finale at Highlands Park in New Zealand. The car had been listed for sale before before being withdrawn for its rebuild.

Full listing details can be found HERE


The other listing is for what we believe to be the teams last acquisition, a V8 Vantage GT4 used by Andrew Miedecke in two New South Wales Motor Racing Championship events.

Details of that listing can be found HERE

We understand that the father and son team had elected to take a step back in 2017 to concentrate on their family businesses in Australia - something that makes perfect commercial sense considering the raising cost of motorsport. We hope to see them out on track again somewhere soon.

Just two weeks after competing in the new Masters Series Endurance Legends event at Spa Francorchamps, the former Villois Racing Aston Martin Racing Vantage GT2 finds itself looking for a new home.

Having last been sold just over two years ago for a cool £125,000  plus commission at the Aston Martin Works auction, the GT2-007 chassis car has only been seen fleetingly on track ever since and is only one of an apparent three remaining platforms from an original production cycle of ten cars. That rarity is being reflected in the sale price.


Who says you only make money on property?!!!!

Full listing details for the sale can be found HERE

Hopefully with the level now being shown in the fledgling Endurance Legends Series we may get to see more of this beauty?

Having not entered their Aston Martin Racing V8 Vantage GT4 into the 2017 British GT Championship after two previous seasons in the SRO series, JW Bird Motorsport are finally waving goodbye to their car by listing it for sale on the Racecardirect.com website.

Usually driven by Kieran Griffin and the 2014 British GT GT4 Champion Jake Giddings within the domestic championship, the car also saw victorious service with the team and extended driver line up at the 2015 Dubai 24H where it finished third in class.

Full details of the sale can be found HERE

Photo credit - Jacob Ebrey

Its a shame to see Paul White looking to dispose of his Aston Martin Racing V8 Vantage GT2 on racecarsdirect.com.

This is a car with a great heritage with both White and his Strata21 outfit and of course with Jota Sport in the European Le Mans Series before him. It was also one of the sports cars that helped (with Paul's assistance of course) Tom Onslow-Cole to switch from tin tops to sports car racing in the first place as seen above back at Snetterton in July 2013.


We were due to see the car again at the Aston Martin Racing Festival at the Le Mans 24hr back in 2015 had it not been for the fuel cell issue (listed in the sale details) that forced White to swap to his Bilstein liveried Vantage GT3 that he and Onslow-Cole then went on to win.

Full details of the car sale can be found at https://racecarsdirect.com/Advert/Details/78037/aston-martin-v8-vantage-gt2

As confirmed by Tom Ferrier to The-Advantage when TF Sport were testing at Snetterton last month the team have now offered for sale their V8 Vantage GT4.

Settling into a new season that shall see the team race their three GT3 Vantage's within the British GT, International GT Open and GT3 Le Mans Cup the team have finally listed the now redundant car on Racecarsdirect.com complete with spares and a paid for entry into the 2016 GT Cup Championship - the series previously competed in by flooring company owner Martin Johnston.

Further details can be found HERE

Chassis 043 (Black) - Aston Martin Vantage 4.7ltr GT4 in 2010 spec FIA European GT4 Championship start number 08
GT4 Champion team (2010) has for sale there Aston Martin 4.7ltr GT4 race cars. These GT4’s are front running cars and have been on the European & Dutch GT4 podium every race weekend in the last 2 years!
The Rhesus racing Aston Martins had 9 pole positions, won 5 races, finished 8 times in second position and obtained 10 third spots over the last 2 years. Rhesus racing never failed to finish. Extended spares package available if required, please call or email for full details and pictures.

Specification:
120ltr Fuel Tank
Sportshift
Air Jacks
AMR soild engine mounts
Recaro HANS carbon/kevlar seat
Rain light
FIA de fuel/sample kit
Uprights with increased front camber adjustments
Ballast base plate FIA spec
Extended PI Data Logging
Single dry break fuel filler (not fitted)
Endurance lighting kit (not fitted)
Air conditioning

Total km on the engine 6800 km
Total km on gearbox 6800 km
Total km. of the drive shafts: 1500 km

Price - € 75.000 (+VAT where applicable)

Andre Kool +31 6 53 125 631
Jarno Born +31 6 24 617 395

Email contact:
akool@rhesus.nl

www.rhesus.n

Chassis 044 (Black) - Aston Martin Vantage 4.7ltr GT4 2010 FIA European GT4 Championship car 2010 start number 07 2011 spec

GT4 Champion team (2010) has for sale there Aston Martin 4.7ltr GT4 race cars. These GT4’s are front running cars and have been on the European & Dutch GT4 podium every race weekend in the last 2 years!
The Rhesus racing Aston Martins had 9 pole positions, won 5 races, finished 8 times in second position and obtained 10 third spots over the last 2 years. Rhesus racing never failed to finish. Extended spares package available if required, please call or email for full details.

Specification:
120ltr Fuel Tank
Sportshift
Air Jacks
Rose Jointed Suspension
AMR soild engine mounts
Recaro HANS carbon/kevlar seat
Rain light
FIA de fuel/sample kit
Uprights with increased front camber adjustments
Ballast base plate FIA spec
Bosch ABS/Traction Control
Extended PI Data logging
Koni adjustable dampers
Single dry break fuel filler (not fitted)
Endurance lighting kit (not fitted)
Air conditioning (not fitted)

Total km on the engine after complete rebuilt 1100 km
Total km on gearbox after complete rebuild 1100 km
Total km. of the drive shafts: 750 km

Price - € 105.000 (+VAT where applicable)

Andre Kool +31 6 53 125 631
Jarno Born +31 6 24 617 395

Email contact:
akool@rhesus.nl

www.rhesus.nl

Aston Martin V8 Vantage GT4 race car. Fresh from a 2nd overall finish at the Britcar Silverstone 24 Hours and the 2011 Aston Martin GT4 Challenge title, arguably the most successful Aston Martin Vantage GT4 car is now for sale. Originally built by Aston Martin Racing in 2009 and since prepared and raced by Nicholas Mee Racing for 3 seasons, this manual gearbox car features full 2011 upgrade specification including 4.7litre engine, endurance Brembo brake package, Bosch motorsport ABS and traction control system and 2011 aero upgrade. Currently painted in Aston Martin Pentland green and supplied in excellent condition. For sale with an extensive spare parts package worth £30,000 +. Available now.

Price £110,000


Neal Garrard
Commercial Director
Nicholas Mee & Co. Ltd
12 Wellesley Avenue
London
W6 0UP

T: 0208 741 8822
M: 07718 340811

www.nicholasmee.co.uk

Aston Martin V8 Vantage GT4, built by Aston Martin Lagonda in 2007. This car was successfully raced by leading team, Vantage Racing in various endurance races including the Britcar Championship and the Aston Martin GT4 Challenge. Subsequently, this car, named affectionately as ‘Alec’, returned back to its original home, Prototype Operations at Aston Martin Lagonda, Gaydon, to be rebuilt with a 4.7litre engine and 2011 aerodynamic kit. ‘Alec’ was then raced in the 2011 Aston Martin GT4 Challenge, driven by a number of high profile automotive journalists including Andrew Frankel, Jethro Bovingdon and BBC’s Chris Partridge securing a number of podium finishes along the way. Supplied in very good condition with racing mileage left on both the gearbox and engine. Suitable for racing in the 2012 Aston Martin GT4 Challenge, British GT, Britcar etc, track days or potentially fast road usage (subject to road registration). Supplied in special ‘Works’ livery as designed by Autocar readers. VAT applicable. Please contact us for full details.

Price £75,0000


Neal Garrard
Commercial Director
Nicholas Mee & Co. Ltd
12 Wellesley Avenue
London
W6 0UP

T: 0208 741 8822
M: 07718 340811

www.nicholasmee.co.uk