Aston Martin Db3 Works Team Car

'Works car' is an English term for 'factory racer', used to distinguish it from cars entered by private individuals ('privateers').

This Aston Martin is one of the five factory racers of the DB3 type. In 1954 the car was modernized by the factory with a body in the style of the later DB3S, a lighter version of the DB3. The flowing body shape is typical of competition sports cars from the 1950s. There has only ever been one Grand Prix for sports cars run in Monaco, in 1952, and this car took part in it. The young driver Peter Collins achieved seventh place with the DB3. Together with top motorcycle racer Geoff Duke, Collins drove the car in the 12 Hours of Sebring a year later, the opening race of the World Sportscar Championship. Collins was leading by a wide margin when he handed over to Duke, but Duke crashed and the DB3 was out of the race. The car was repaired and, with Peter Collins once again at the wheel, the Aston Martin finished sixteenth in the 1953 Mille Miglia. Today this DB3 is a regular participant in the historic Mille Miglia.