I thought I'd flag this Dunlop livery competition to all those budding artists on Speedhunters. This is the second year Dunlop have run a competition like this and our post proved popular last year. The rules are fairly basic. You have to be resident in one of the Eight eligible European countries (which rules me out!), use the templates supplied

Aston Martin are helping publicise the upcoming 1000kms Le Mans Series race at Silverstone by displaying the 007 car outside Euston station in London for two days this week, so I had to drop by to get a picture. They'll be three Lola Aston Martins at Silverstone, with their clean sweep of the Nurburgring podium positions to live up to. It's

Ok let's jump straight in and look at the dramas from further down the field at the 2009 Le Mans 24 Hours. Behind the diesel class, here was another prototype race going on, that of those powered by petrol. Although a factory effort in name, the Lola Aston Martin team is closer in resource terms to the best of the privateers. A titanic battle ensued

Day 2 of the 2009 Le Mans 24 Hours and Day 2 of the scrutineering process. This is a form of torture for the teams who hate the disturbance to their preparations for the race. The idea is that the cars are taken from the pit boxes on the circuit by road to the middle of the City of Le Mans, which is nightmare of traffic jams and tram related hold ups

This cool shot comes from Aston Martin Racing, who are celebrating the 50th Anniversary of its first win at Le Mans, back in 1959. Just as 2009, Aston Martin Racing entered three cars in the race for Stirling Moss/Jack Fairman, Roy Salvadori/Carroll Shelby and Paul Frere/Marucie Trintignant. - Some VERY legendary drivers in that list! Although Ferrari