Aston Martin DBR1

The Aston Martin DBR1 is a sports racing car built by Aston Martin from 1956 for the World Sportscar Championship and non-championship races. It is most famous for winning the 1959 24 Hours of Le Mans, Aston Martin only outright victory there, and it is one of only three cars of the 1950s to win both the World Sports Car Championship and Le Mans in the same year. Freed by rule changes from using road-legal cars, Aston Martin made a clean-sheet design under chief designer Ted Cutting, with a much lower body evolved from the DB3S and a large triangular side vent that became standard on later Aston Martins. It started with a 2.5 litre engine and moved to a 3.0 litre straight-six of 250 hp in 1957. Car DBR1/1 sold for 22.5 million dollars in 2017.