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<\/a><\/p>\nOn the 26th\u00a0<\/sup>of May 1957, English cars and a gent from Huddersfield named David Brown attained a long-sought goal. Since the war this short, bespectacled industrialist had spent hundreds of thousands of pounds on machinery to perpetuate the name \u201cAston Martin.\u201d On that day he had the pleasure of watching his latest Aston racing car trample the cream of Italy\u2019s sports machines on one of the world\u2019s most testing road courses: the N\u00fcrburgring. His drivers were the impeccably fast Tony Brooks and newcomer Noel Cunningham-Reid, young men who had been groomed for Aston\u2019s racing program by team manager Reg Parnell and his predecessor John Wyer, now general manager of David Brown Automobiles.<\/p>\n Although an all-English victory, it was important for other reasons. Since the war, Jaguars had domi\u00adnated fast courses like Le Mans and Reims. Britain\u2019s own short sprint and club races were the province of home-grown marques like Lister and Tojeiro, while Cooper and Lotus had to be reckoned with in any class under two liters. Yet through it all there was no English car that challenged the eminence of German and Italian cars in most of the world\u2019s classic sports car races: the \u2018Ring, the Mille Miglia, Targa Florio, Tourist Trophy, Mexican Road Race and Sebring.<\/p>\n