With the Aston Martin DBR9 and DBRS9 coming towards the end of their expected racing lifespan, a new generation of Vantage race car platform was being developed with the initial legwork being done by Lord Paul Drayson's team who were then competing in the American Le Mans Series.

Auditioned in 2008 in the States, the GT2 Vantage soon hit the tracks of Europe with many teams like JMW, Jota and RoFGO across many series in Europe. Like the DBR9 platform before it, it wasn't too long before a cheaper Vantage GT3 race car was launched to AMR's customer teams whilst the GT2 went on to become the AMR's GTE model (which will be covered separately in these galleries).

Again in no particular order and again in support of health care professionals round the world, these are a few more of our photographic offerings.

Part 3 - The Aston Martin Racing Festival at the Le Mans 24Hr 2018 continued.