Tom Cole
Sir, I am working on a life of Tom Cole who drove Ferraris, amongst other cars and died while driving one of his several Ferraris at Le Mans 1953. Any…
The 75th anniversary of Aston Martin’s first Le Mans 24 Hours is to be commemorated by a race at Silverstone’s St John Horsfall meeting.
The all-Aston grid on June 28 will be headed by the 1959 Le Mans-winning DBR1. This will be backed up by eight examples of the DB3S model, which scored second places in ’55-56 and ’58. A number of the factory DB2 cars from ’51 are also on the entry list.
The marque first entered the classic French event in 1928 with LM1 and LM2, both of which retired.