Just afterwards 15:00 hrs on 18 June 2006, in the pit lane of the Nürburgring, Chris Porritt, Aston Martin's Vehicle Engineering Manager, stepped from the cockpit of a ablaze chicken V8 Vantage. In the above-mentioned 24 hours, Porritt, forth with his co-drivers, Dr Ulrich Bez, Aston Martin's Chief Executive, Horst von Saurma and Wolfgang Schuhbauer, had lapped the allegorical 25.4 km (15.77 mile) circuit, adolescent in Germany's aerial Eifel region, some 130 times. The near-standard Aston Martin V8 Vantage accomplished 24th all-embracing out of 220 starters - a amazing accomplishment amid a acreage of mostly specialised race-homologated entrants.
The Nürburgring 24-hour chase not alone gives its name to the Aston Martin V8 Vantage N24, but provided a absolute affirmation of its abilities: a near-standard car able of arrest the demands of one of the world's best backbreaking antagonism circuits. Following the team's success in Germany, the Aston Martin V8 Vantage N24 after went on to accomplishment eighth all-embracing in the countdown 24-hour chase of Bahrain in December 2006, afresh aggressive with awful adapted chase cars. During the advance of the race, the Aston Martin V8 Vantage N24 covered over 2,600 km (1,600 miles), defective alone fuel, anchor pads and tyres.
