Tuesday, July 05, 2005

Aston Martin DBR9 race car

The new episode of Top Gear is out.

Jeremy covers the 1320 mile journey to Oslo, Norway, in a Mercedes McLaren SLR.

But the highlight of the show really was The Stig driving the Aston Martin DBR9 GT race car on their track.

To say this car is seriously fast would be an understatement.

The Ferrari Enzo does one lap in 1'19". Its sibling, the Maserati MC12, is a smidgen faster at 1'18"9xx.

This car is more than 10 seconds faster at 1'08"6xx.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Just watched the episode.

Too bad they didn't race the roadgoing DBRS9 instead.. wonder how much different the engine was.

Any idea what engine is in the DBR9? It sounded like a very high revving car like an F1?

crufty said...

It's a V12 dude... there's a writeup on RSportsCars.com