The Aston Martin Rapide Nurburgring race car has been unveiled today and the company says it will make its debut in the 24-Hour event that will take place on 15/16 May 2010. Previously, Aston Martin has competed in the Nurburgring 24-Hour race with the V8 Vantage and the V12 Vantage. for this year, the British brand goes four-door.
Aston Martin Rapide
For all those who thought Aston Martin had by some means long past tender by way of supplying a 4-door saloon, the famed British marque plans to show the brand new Rapide is no slouch with the aid of coming into it in the 38th ADAC Nurburgring 24-hour race on May 15-16. Piloting the car win the grueling race could be none other than Aston Martin?S CEO Dr. Ulrich Bez, who at age sixty six can nonetheless give the younger weapons a run for their cash. Aston, with Bez on the wheel, has received pinnacle honors in the race?S production-based SP8 category for the past two years with versions of the Vantage coupe.
The Aston Martin Rapide Nurburgring will been entered in the race as company's Chief Executive, Dr Ulrich Bez considers this event represents the ultimate durability test for any sports car.
The Aston Martin Rapide Nurburgring is extremely near the production vehicle. The best differences between the Aston Martin Rapide Nurburgring and the manufacturing model consist of the elimination of interior trim to save weight, re-tuned suspension and slick tires.
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Aston Martin Rapide to contest gruelling N?Rburgring 24-hour Race
Gaydon, Warwickshire 6 April 2010. Aston Martin will return to the starting grid of the legendary Nordschleife circuit for the fifth consecutive year at the 38th ADAC Nürburgring 24-hour race on 15/16 May 2010 with the marque's new four-door sports car; the Rapide.
Further underlining the carrying credentials of Aston Martin's state-of-the-art model, the Rapide will compete in the annoying 24-hour race - as has been the case with other latest Aston Martin street cars, the V8 Vantage and V12 Vantage. The Rapide will compete in close to-preferred specification apart from mandatory adjustments required to compete in this maximum worrying of persistence races and will be pushed by using a team of engineers from the employer's Gaydon headquarters in Warwickshire, England.
Aston Martin Chief Executive, Dr Ulrich Bez who will lead the Rapide driver team, explained: "This race represents the closing very last engineering sturdiness check for any sports activities car - it topics the auto to the hardest viable evaluation underneath public scrutiny. "The Rapide has the capability to carry 4 humans in consolation however first and important it is a sports carand we can difficulty it to the same checks we would our different sports motors. We already have a verified tune document on the N?Rburgring racing our street automobiles with confined modification and in latest years we've loved achievement in winning the SP8 magnificence both in 2008 and 2009."
The Rapide race car will be close to production standard with only essential race safety modifications, interior trim removed to reduce weight, re-tuned suspension and will run on slick tyres designed for track use. The Aston Martin Rapide encapsulates the values of Aston Martin in pure four-door sports car form with an unrivalled combination of performance, comfort, craftsmanship and exceptionally elegant design. Since the Rapide's original premiere at the Frankfurt Motor Show in 2009 the car has gone on to win the widespread approval of customers and media commentators alike, prompting strong global demand for the car. Deliveries of the Rapide commence later this month through Aston Martin's 125-strong global dealership network.
The Rapide race automobile may be joined by way of a V12 Vantage - once more changed simplest slightly for racing - which in 2009 swept to a category win on its aggressive race debut. The near manufacturing fashionable V12 Vantage - which completed in twenty first area typical final 12 months - noticed off competition from a area of largely specialist race automobiles in the SP8 class to say an outstanding debut win.
Further details on the V12 Vantage and the whole driver line-u.S.A.For each Aston Martin entries plus information on a number of customer groups competing inside the race will follow within the coming weeks.
The 38th ADAC N?Rburgring 24 hour race will take vicinity on 15/sixteen May 2010.
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