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Aston eyes customers for new LMP1

Aston Martin Racing intends to build six of its proposed new Le Mans 24 Hours contenders over the next two years, this week's AUTOSPORT magazine reveals

The funding plan to which company chairman David Richards alluded involves AMR selling the first bespoke Aston Martin prototypes since 1989 to collectors and customer teams.

AUTOSPORT has learned that AMR intends to build four of the new LMP1s for 2011, two to be entered by the Prodrive-run factory team and two by privateers, and then produce another two for customers in 2012.

AMR would not confirm the plan, but the Jota team has announced a multi-year Aston deal that is expected to take it into the prototype ranks in 2012.

AMR team principal George Howard-Chappell said it was premature to talk about funding because the project had not been signed off.

Richards insisted last week that the new Aston P1 would only be given the green light if AMR believed there was a level playing field between petrol and diesel-powered machinery.

"There is a desire to do a new car, but certain things need to fall into place to make it happen. We can't say anything more until our plans are a little more concrete."

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