2005 RAC TT Silverstone, FIA GT series
2005 RAC TT Silverstone, FIA GT series

2005 RAC TT Silverstone, FIA GT series

(2005)

The RAC Tourist Trophy race, round 3 of the FIA GT championship was the first opportunity to see an Aston Martin Works team competing on UK soil since 1989.

2005 RAC TT Silverstone, FIA GT series

The pair of Aston Martin DBR9’s started from the front row of the grid and never lost the lead of the 3 hour race despite strong opposition from a trio of Maserati MC12 GT1’s. Car 28 (David Brabham, Darren Turner), with the yellow nose band led for most of the race but with just 15 minutes to go, red nosed car 29 (Peter Cox, Pedro Lamy) was slightly quicker and took the lead to win the race with a gap of just 1.9 seconds. The third place Maserati was only 9 seconds behind after 134 laps.

Since the FIA GT championship is only open to private non-works teams, AMR did not score points within the championship despite winning the race.