{"id":6332,"date":"2020-04-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-04-01T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.secret-classics.com\/aston-martin-team-car-lm7-2\/"},"modified":"2020-10-09T11:28:24","modified_gmt":"2020-10-09T11:28:24","slug":"aston-martin-team-car-lm7-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.secret-classics.com\/en\/aston-martin-team-car-lm7-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Aston Martin Team Car LM7"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Between the two world wars, many sports car manufacturers romped around the famous race tracks to fight among themselves to see who could build the better cars. Especially the Le Mans 24-hour race gained in importance during this period. In addition to MG, Bentley, Mercedes-Benz, Bugatti, Frazer Nash and Alfa Romeo, the works team of Aston Martin also gathered here. The latter brand celebrated various class and team successes, especially in the 1930s. Since the mid 1920s, racing driver Augustus ‘Bert’ Bertelli and the rich heir William ‘Bill’ Renwick had been in charge of the British manufacturer and moved production to new brick buildings in Feltham. Their plan was to develop sports cars that could be driven on their own wheels to the race tracks, where they would achieve success without radical changes.

The first two Team Cars, LM1 and LM2, were created as early as 1928 and competed in Le Mans the same year. LM3 followed in 1929 and LM4 in 1930, both of which never made it onto the track at the Sarthe in northwest France. HJ Aldington, who actually worked for Frazer Nash, injected fresh money into the Aston Martin company in 1931 and at the same time ordered three new racing cars, LM5, LM6 and LM7. As final examples of the Bertelli design, which was based on the International model, they received a 1.5-liter four-cylinder engine with redesigned cylinder heads that produced more compression. This provided 70 hp at 5,000 rpm, which ensured a topspeed of 90 mph. A special fuel was used in racing, consisting of 75 percent ethylene and 25 percent benzol. A manual four-speed gearbox transferred the power to the rear axle and wider drum brakes all around provided good deceleration values.<\/p>\n\n\n

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