Death of an Aston

[lambertpix]

Having seen tecboy's post this weekend, I was pretty impressed that Aston Martin managed to get this Vantage back on the road again given the way it left Wisconsin a couple weeks ago. Here are a few shots of it early in the weekend, when it was looking sharp and howling like nobody's business:


IMG_9903.jpg by lambertpix, on Flickr

IMG_0677.jpg by lambertpix, on Flickr

IMG_1429.jpg by lambertpix, on Flickr

I liked this last one, incidentally, mainly because you can see the LMP2 driver glancing over at the Aston as he passed -- despite the fact that I was focused on the Aston, he was the slower car in this case.

Anyway, here's what it looked like when it left -- I'm just about positive the car tecboy saw was a new chassis, 'cause this one ain't racing again:

IMG_1972.jpg by lambertpix, on Flickr

 

[tirediron]

Mehhh... that'll buff right out.

 

[lambertpix]

One more decent shot:

IMG_0070.jpg by lambertpix, on Flickr

Incidentally, when I commented on tecboy's thread about the over-boosted contrast on the edit from KmH, I wound up with very similar results on this shot, where I overexposed rather badly and had to do some pretty drastic editing to pull exposure back -- it's still a sharp-looking car, but this really isn't a fantastic shot of it:

Aston by lambertpix, on Flickr

 

[Msteelio91]

Very cool man. So sad to see that thing wrecked but I guess that's part of racing. What a sweet rig too. Painful!

 

[The_Traveler]

Mehhh... that'll buff right out.

truly the remark of the day

 

[lambertpix]

Very cool man. So sad to see that thing wrecked but I guess that's part of racing. What a sweet rig too. Painful!

Road America is a fantastic track, but it's dangerous. Lots of high-speed bits, and when things go wrong, there isn't always a lot of runoff room. Turns 1 and 5 account for a lot of bent sheet metal, but 12 (Canada corner) keeps the flatbeds busy.

 

[Roba]

One of the best sounding race cars around!! Makes the hair on the back of my neck stand up!!

 

[BillM]

Beautiful set, especially like #2

 

[sscarmack]

Wow, there goes what? 200k?

 

[lambertpix]

Wow, there goes what? 200k?

Probably something like that. I think the car's close to that before they start race-prepping it, which has to be another 100G's or so. You figure there were probably some parts they could pull off for spares -- hopefully there's still a motor in there somewhere -- so yeah, that's about right.

 

[West -]

Nice shots ... RIP Bond.

 

[avraam]

sorry for the car((