A significant piece of British Motorsport history.

Prior to Aston Martin's most recent campaign in World GT racing with the DBR9s in 2005, it was 1989 when the bespoke British manufacturer last had a factory team competing in International motorsport.

The AMR1 ran its first race in that year's World Sports-Prototype Championship for Group 'C' machines and benefited from the company's earlier experiences with its superb V8 which had previously powered the Nimrod, and later the EMKA and Cheetah-Aston Martins, in the early and middle years of the Group C formula.

Although only semi-works supported, the Nimrods were a crucial catalyst in the creation of Aston Martin's first race car of the modern era.

With fuel limited to 100 litres, force-fed cars could only run high boost in qualifying when consumption was not an issue.

Former Aston dealer Robin Hamilton saw the potential such rules would provide for Tadek Marek's all alloy V8 which he had already run in a modified DBS V8 at Le Mans...