2005 - For Aston Martin's return to the 24 Hours of Le Mans, Stéphane Sarrazin, David Brabham and Darren Turner finished ninth overall at the wheel of the DBR9.
2006 - Tomas Enge, Andrea Piccini and Darren Turner finished sixth overall.

2007 - The British GT made it to the top 5, with fifth place and a class win for the #009 driven by David Brabham-Rickard Rydell-Darren Turner. Four other DBR9s were at the finish, in seventh place (Christophe Bouchut-Fabrizio Gollin-Casper Elgaard), ninth (Tomas Enge-Johnny Herbert-Peter Kox), 11th (Fabio Babini-Jamie Davies-Matteo Malucelli) and 17th (Antonio Garcia-Jos Menten-Christian Fittipaldi).

2008 - Second consecutive class win for the #009 Aston Martin DBR9. Thirteenth overall, David Brabham and Darren Turner competed along with Spanish driver Antonio Garcia. At the wheel of the #007, Karl Wendlinger-Andrea Piccini-Heinz Harald Frentzen finished 16th.

2009 - Aston Martin moved on to LM P1 prototypes with a clever combination: a GT engine (that of the DBR9 seen from 2006 to 2008) and a closed-body Lola chassis. With a Gulf Oil sky blue and orange livery, it remains one of the most beautiful prototypes of the last several years. Tomas Enge, Stefan Mücke and Jan Charouz (#007) finished fourth at the 24 Hours of Le Mans. The Lola-Aston Martin coupe also won the Le Mans Series championship (predecessor of the current European Le Mans Series which at the time accepted LM P1s).

2011 - After the sixth place finish of the #007 Lola-Aston Martin the previous year, the British manufacturer encountered the worst difficulties with its new AMR-One prototype. Along with Bas Leinders and Maxime Martin, Vanina Ickx (Jacky's daughter) achieved its best result at the 24 Hours of Le Mans with a seventh place finish at the wheel of a Lola-Aston Martin coupe entered by Belgian team Kronos Racing.

2012 - Aston Martin Racing returned to GT with the Vantage and reclaimed a podium finish at the 24 Hours thanks to Stefan Mücke-Adrian Fernandez-Darren Turner, third in the LM GTE Pro class.

2013 - In the World Endurance Championship (WEC), Jamie Campbell-Walter and Stuart Hall won the FIA Endurance LM GTE Am Drivers Trophy.

2014 - One year after the fatal accident of Danish driver Allan Simonsen in the first laps of the 81st edition of the 24 Hours, his fellow countrymen Kristian Poulsen, David Heinemeier Hansson and Nicki Thiim won in the LM GTE Am class.

2016 - Absent on the podium at the 24 Hours of Le Mans at the last two editions, Aston Martin made a spectacular return during the second half-season of the WEC. On September 17th at the 6 Hours of the Circuit of The Americas, the British manufacturer and its duo of Danish drivers Nicki Thiim-Marco Sorensen took the lead in the FIA World Endurance Constructors and Drivers Cup.

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Photo: Fifth in the LM GTE Pro class at the 2016 24 Hours of Le Mans at the wheel of the #95 Aston Martin, Nicki Thiim and Marco Sorensen have led Aston Martin to the head of the FIA Constructors and GT Drivers Cup in the World Endurance Championship (WEC).