Aston Martin Racing & ProDrive - /DRIVEN

An inside look just weeks before the 24 Hours of Le Mans at Aston Martin Racing: An operation of the legendary ProDrive.

[@Archibalt3000]

These are the kind of videos that make Drive unique. Thx for this.

[@divne8]

Prodrive is one of my all time favorite engineering companies, Thank you for shooting this!

[@ThaUltimateDragon]

This is one beautiful piece of automotive journalism. chapeau.

[@dunna321]

wow a FPV Boss 335 GT in their garage. nice to see a great in depth view into their work. great video

[@LiveByBurton]

I love these behind the scenes type videos

[@TomElliottSimAndKart]

I've been there myself, and managed to blag myself an opportunity to sit in the Le Mans-winning DBR9. It's an amazing place to visit. :)

[@fordfool420]

Wow wow wow wow That was an awesome video I could've watched about 60 more minutes of it though I just got to say Thank you JF For producing In putting out a supremely High-quality and exciting video... In my eyes everything you touch is Gold And I'm very sincere in that comment thanks again...

[@phillipkerfoot2389]

RIP Allan Simonsen. Good on prodrive for racing to win it for him.

[@strat57wg]

I agree 100%. Thank you for all the effort you put into making the series, but all the "Got it's" and "OK"s in the interview are quite unloquacious.

[@pdpiper]

Another great piece this week. Keep them comin!

[@GRH316]

Would have been nice to have seen them go into the paint shop and see the carbon kits being made

[@alphaprawns]

Hnngh, I want to be standing in that showroom so badly. So much automotive history in in one room!

[@siemprebmw3284]

would someone please for the love of god get a person who knows how to interview people .................. and did he say after 3 years they refresh the race cars ..... so can i have a old one ............ ha .

[@jackychng25]

Thank you drive central! Got to love Aston Martin and prodrive

[@pabauza]

Great to have you back JF!

[@TristianWrites]

I love how clean and quiet and professional this shop is.

[@mhmyup1]

man drive is on fire this week. Good job guys.

[@rileysmith9843]

I have done work with them for years. I have a 2005 Chevrolet Cobalt converted to ADR through them.

[@FrodoFett]

Because the Aston Martin LMP1 car (AMR-ONE) was an abject failure and only completed a combined 12 laps between both cars. One tub was purchased and became the DeltaWing, the other tub was purchased by Henri Pescarolo and run at Le Mans in 2012 with a Judd V10.

[@FrodoFett]

As a point of reference, a full season arrive & drive program in a Ginetta G55 supporting British GT is ~$50,000 GBP. A recent interview with Starworks on Radio Le Mans put the per event cost of Grand-AM & WEC at ~$150,000 per event for a DP or LMP2. This is not even considering all the licensing & track time to obtain the necessary experience. GT3 is likely to be a similar cost for Blancpain, GTOpen or a similar series.

[@MetalPhreakAU]

FPV was half owned by Prodrive (51%) until they pulled out recently. They were the ones who did most of the development on the supercharged 5L I believe :)

[@nHeroGo]

Beautifully shot, again. Big fan of your Koenigsegg series.

[@fluffychicken383]

That Gulf LMP car in the back, ohh sexy. Pretty much anything with gulf colors are great!

[@DoctorPetrol]

Wow they have some amazing motorsport heritage in there!

[@MrMillenium67]

Great to see some of the Drive team over here in the UK! Great video!

[@Pandamasque]

Too short! But thanks. Fantastic. I think I was among those who made a comment with suggestion to visit Prodrive like a year ago.

[@HK0HunterKiller]

What is it that J.F. Musial says at 04:27, that I can't understand? It sounds like RX-7 or something. Can someone help me out?

[@bob808]

Although I'm not a Ford guy, it was cool to see an FPV in their garage!

[@pengouin85]

Very Neat video... Thanks for producing an amazing show, JF. RIP my fellow Dane, Allan Simonsen

[@MrChacha2011]

good stuff man and more of this type of reviews and information

[@solesearched]

This was awesome!

[@andredc161]

I need more of these!!! Great Work

[@at4EversEnd]

My heart sinks every time I see the link for this video. A team favored to win in both classes but finishes in tragedy.

[@FlangeMcGee]

Awesome, just awesome! MORE!! Love that in all those amazing cars they had the Austalian Ford Falcon GT!! haha

[@b00mzila]

wow amazing video! Great work Drive! Just makes you wonder... where does all that funding come from! all those people and cars etc.!

[@arinbjornkuld]

Drive is putting out some hight quality content these days. Keep up the good work!

[@jjpg2000]

Seeing videos like this just make me want to modify my car even more.

[@HK0HunterKiller]

A space chassis? Is that what is used to span large areas with few interior supports?

[@Spearfisher1970]

Excellent interview, and I've finally seen an Aston I want.

[@odegarage]

Very good music all through this video.

[@rlgonzalez04]

Awesome episode

[@jeremyj.5687]

Wow, this host basically just stood there, open-mouthed, with crossed arms and going "Yeah" and "Uh-hu" from time to time. No questions, no particular reactions to the things said, no smiles. Just trying to look like he was actually listening. Not particularly engaging to watch, although the premise was awesome.

[@Todis51]

loved this video

[@silat13]

What brand jackstands are in use in this video?

[@FormulaWill]

An interesting topic to address for another episode is...Why doesn't Grand Am fall in line with FIA Regulations and Specifications? Especially in the case of GT Racing, it seems practical have one roll-cage for GrandAm and another for FIA events. Uniformity across the different racing series seems like a way to reduce costs for teams that want to participate in more than one series.

[@aydinvideo]

Fucking sweet. Keep making more videos like this drive fuck yeah!!

[@kyledammann4284]

Thanks drive!

[@SirMCPEA]

The RX-8 Grand Am car was a space chassis with a RX-8 body on it and J.F was asking whether it was the same with the Astons

[@doogg666]

anyone knows the name of the song from the beginning?

[@Disc0Potat0]

So can you bring a stock Aston to ProDrive, ask them to install racing suspension, brakes, and rollcage, would they do it? I think an Aston with racing bits on the street is a thing of dreams to me.

[@bb3xhrhj]

This one was acctually pretty good :)

[@f40f50enzof60]

Great video!

[@timcansiz]

The Aston Martins do have a short wheelbase compared to some other GTE machinery though, this tends to tend itself to the car being more twitchy when on the limit. Add to this the fact its front engined unlike the Porsche & Ferrari and you begin to see why the back end could be a bit unstable in difficult conditions.

[@Ashumuto]

When he said the Regulations mean they can't use a lot of the high end developments / materials I wish you'd asked what they miss using vs what they're glad to be rid of.

[@13Omega37]

Nice background music on this one! Can you tell me what it is?

[@BrainDamageAG]

Where was the race???????

[@ARFSPRYG]

They just got the pole in GTP Class, P1-2

[@000Haze]

Cheerz JF, pretty jealous right now !

[@mattofeast]

Love it.

[@GumshunProductions]

those aston martins are super fast for the lemans test session....lets see their longevity

[@csrgonza13]

What would it take to get a job for a race team like this?

[@winsevenholic]

nice car ,great video always :D

[@garretwd]

The music used in this video is sublime. Does anyone recognize it?

[@Bomag]

Very nice video :) Keep it up!

[@SirMCPEA]

Sorry space frame chassis which is a tubular steel chassis like you get of sport prototypes before they started using carbon tubs

[@Tocino_Life]

-> I have a feeling that this Prodrive episode NEEDS a part 2. But this time Chris Harris NEEDS to do a double header. Driving that epic P2 and that Aussie Ford Falcon BOSS in UK roads and see how he thinks about it! Since that Falcon is one of the very few available in the UK!

[@luisgarcia22]

Tell me how you work surrounded by Aston Martins on a daily basis...

[@Miggy2j]

Nothing on the FPV :(

[@TheMr1RAD]

Why no mention of the Falcon GT in the garage??

[@respectfulremixer]

Interesting - thanks

[@Acidicheartburn]

Is that Kinks reference?

[@tocsa120ls]

I've noted all of JF's lines on the shop tour: Okay. Okay. Mhh. Okay. Okay. Interesting. Mhh. Right. Ready to go. Really? Yeah. Okay. Oh yeah, we've talked about that. Got it. Okay. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. Are you doing your own CFD work? Got it. Cool. Okay. Okay. Okay. Got it. Mhh. Okay. Got it. |||| This is enraging! Why don't you prepare?? He is probably one of the smarter guys there, and you only ask him one question? CFD? Really? Okay. Cool. Got it.

[@skyhigheagleer6]

Interviewer didn't ask questions or they were cut

[@aconfusedazn]

Joffry Baratheon at 5:57 I didn't know he worked for Prodrive.

[@TheDriver458]

Little did they know that in the future they lost a very good racing driver. I'm not saying it's Prodrive's fault, they had no idea it was going to happen. RIP Allan Simonsen

[@WilliamBarber]

His questions were being answered all throughout the episode, they were just edited out.

[@MrPsyban]

why, with all the metal in that room, why does my stupid mind keeps wanting more info on the Contour / Mondeo SVT racer, god I feel stupid.

[@FafaPaku]

He did explain that unlike the competition (Ferrari), that starts out as a sports car, these are GT cars...

[@05068279]

Sorry guys, previously Driven has been nothing but excellent, but this was somewhat sleep inducing. Was dying to hear about the Lola car in the background and see more of the shop.

[@lastexile1187]

Just ignore the ex Patrick Snijers M3 rally car and the BTCC mondeo. :/

[@FafaPaku]

And a Le Mans spec 458 GT2 weighs 250kgs less than the 458 (my google-fu is strong too) . But if you think finding a quarter of a ton weight savings is massive fail then I await the debut of your "Frederiksen" brand where you show how it's done :)

[@BornMini]

what happens to the engine after 5000km ????

[@ubbgn]

Rebuild?

[@pengouin85]

Also, at 8:26 (with CC) thank you for not using a damn apostrophe to mark the plural form of DBRS9! Apostrophes don't show pluralization!

[@marcelskaterkid94]

yessss

[@Orcawhale1]

The Narrator Sounds really HIGH at the start? Or is it just me..

[@thekiller2995]

The interviewer only says "cool" "ok" and "got it" xD

[@SouthernYankee10000]

Why did you not talk about the Lola

[@917guga]

whar is are anti-extrusion bars?

[@RyTrapp0]

anti-intrusion bars? the 2 equally spaced bars that run vertically from roof to cowl on the inside of the windshield, they help distribute load across the windshield/sheetmetal in any instance where a very heavy object might strike the windshield at very high speed(say, a worst case scenario incident at daytona where a loose tire from a wrecked/damaged car may strike the windshield of one of these astons going 100+MPH).

[@roywhiteo5]

racing is so ridiculously expensive that it amazes me how anyone can do it above the spec miata level.

[@walshy1093]

I'd love to work there.

[@townsjim]

The background music is too loud

[@yosprite]

that lola-aston martin was right there and u guys didnt even bother to film it. :(

[@supr2nrx]

so weird to see a drive video with no comments

[@corvetteboy3]

The GTE Aston is a V8 not a V12 Dan..

[@Liemciemdk89]

Great video; high tear level multimillion $ race organization. Feel very poor with my garage, should just buy from these guys direct

[@HQuakers]

Cleanest garage ever?

[@DYE239]

Why did u not show us the LMP1 Car! But good video other than that

[@TheBucketOfTruth]

What are we even talking about? These cars are built to the regulations of the series they race in, even down to the minimum weight.

[@gteam2]

should have got him to speak about the FPV GT 335

[@HK0HunterKiller]

Oh, I see. Thank you for the explanation :)