The Aston Martin DBR3 was a one-off sports racing car that the Aston Martin works team built in 1958 as an alternative to its DBR1. It reused a DBR1 chassis and body but swapped the Lagonda-derived six-cylinder engine for a unit based on the new DB4 road car engine, destroked to 3.0 litres so that it could run in the three-litre sports car class, and it carried a new wishbone front suspension being developed for the DBR4 Formula One car. The experiment was short lived: the car started only one race, at Silverstone, did not finish, and the engine proved unreliable and prone to overheating. Aston Martin cancelled the DBR3 and converted the chassis back into a DBR1.
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Engine3.0-litre straight-six derived from the DB4 road car engine 1 Connections
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The Aston Martin DBR3 was a sports racing car built in 1958
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The Aston Martin DBR3 was a sports racing car built in 1958
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The Aston Martin DBR3 was a sports racing car built in 1958
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Thus the decision was made to cancel the DBR3 and instead concentrate on the DBR1.
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Only one DBR3 chassis was built, known as DBR3/1.
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the engine destroked to 3.0L (2990cc)
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The Aston Martin DBR3 was a sports racing car built in 1958
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The Aston Martin DBR3 was a sports racing car built in 1958
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The Aston Martin DBR3 was a sports racing car built in 1958
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The Aston Martin DBR3 was a sports racing car built in 1958
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