Aston Martin DBR 1
After 10 years of trying, Aston Martin finally won the Le Mans 24 hour in 1959 with a 1-2 victory. It was Aston Martin's day with Roy Savadori and Carroll Shelby winning at an average speed of 112.57 mph, in the beautiful number 5 DBR 1, Maurice Trintignant and Paul Frere followed up second in the number 6 car. Solid team discipline, sound tactics and the brilliance of Stirling Moss in the number 4 DBR 1 were the essential elements of this famous victory.
Ferrari who had much faster cars and had started hot favourites, seemed to have no coherent strategy. Stirling Moss lead from the start and drove at a car-breaking pace which lured the chasing Ferraris into destruction within the first three hours.
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