You stick some dots to it and you can then point a camera from a few perspectives on it,
and then a computer-render results from this, that's absolutely sick.
I'm really glad that I don't need to have any clue about this.
I'm usually someone who likes to know everything, but this is where it ends.
And that's when I relize that I have to have faith in this.
Tims work on the 3d-render and his vacant V8 is very limited, 
so he visits a dealer in Düsseldorf.
Here, Tim can touch the car and measure parts from different angles, 
that couldn't be accessed by the scanner.
He does that to make sure they don't forget anything.
May I help you?
Yeah, I would like to look at the car for a while, and I would like to ask,
whether I could take a closer look, opening the bonnet and so on?
Sure! I'm going to open the bonnet for you.
That's nice.
Tim is standing in front of a Aston Martin Vantage Roadster, 122000€ worth.
Tim is only interested in the engine bay.
I realize that with the illustrations I have on my computer 
- I've been send some screenshots from our digitalization/CAD-version - 
you reach certain boundaries. So you're looking at this two-dimensional picture
and you can determine true to scale data and think about what might fit how and where,
but it was important to me to look at the car in its original shape.
With a vision and a folding rule Tim approaches the Aston.
He measures the spots of the car that Darius' scanner couldn't capture.
Meanwhile, Darius has transformed the Aston into the later racecar on his computer.
The car is supposed to be looking similar to this in a few month.
It's not wrong that Tim goes to Düsseldorf to an Aston Martin dealer and takes a look
at the car in reality. It's always a difference looking at a computer screen or a real car.
Tim isn't really used to work with such a 3d-render, so to get inspiration or to get
missing data, that wasn't really necessary at first, that's quite good.
That's superb as an addition.
Soon, the Aston will no longer be associated with the standard car.
Initially, the Aston had to go on a diet.
In the racing car, heavy luxury parts are of no use whatsoever.
With Darius, an important new member joined the team.
He develops the engine with the help of up-to-date technology.
Power and durability are extremely important. Tim takes quite a lot of time to measure
the Aston. The smallest mistake would have fatal sequences, and could throw the project 
back a couple of days.
Especially important: the clearance for the new shock absorbers.
Uncle Funny will make some of the parts himself, others have to be ordered by Tim now,
so that they arrive on time.
Time is short.
The first test drives of the racing version are planned to be in no later than eight weeks time.
Darius is almost done with his virtual construction.
The nice thing about the 3d-data we've obtained from the digitalization, we can do almost anything.
We could digitalize Tim and fit him in as well.
Here you can see the radiator, which is now integrated nicely into the vehicle.
We channel the hot air from the radiator through the car and now we can also add the bodywork
and you can see where it comes out of the bonnet.
It's quite some fun with all these possibilities.
Tim is thinking about the position of the new huge inlet manifolds and air vents.
The problem is the engine bay being actually too small for this.
You have several possiblities. 
You can mount the radiator across to make the surface area bigger 
and channel the hot air out of the car at the top and lead the intake air in from the sides.
That's for example how it was done on the GT2 car from Aston Martin.
But I don't find that beautifully done, because I would like the intake air to travel 
directly into the airbox. But then I have to find another way for the outlet air.
So the outlet air has to go along the sides, but there is a relatively small space here.
You can remove a few bits, but in general there is little room.
I would like to do it differently, but I don't really know how to.
That's why I'm looking at the car and trying to reflect.
Actually, there isn't really any time for this. 
For the rollcage to be mounted, the car should already be at the coachbuilder,
who by the way has a problem and calls Tim on his cellphone.
Important parts that Tim had ordered weren't delivered yet.
The coachbuilder is nervous.
Yes, we have to keep an eye on our shedule.
That should be there already, I'll call there in a minute, 
but that should arrive over the next couple of days.
Two doors with frames and a bonnet. I know that you don't know that. I trust you. 
And tell the boys if they are overly motivated: 
If someone touches anything, even just a connector, I'll kill him, understand?
Tim is tensed up. 
More and more of the involved demand decisions and the time to the race is flying past. 
In the past I've also been easy to put into rage, but now I realize on what a level I can work,
which is important for myself. I have to keep an eye on ten things at once.
But I also get enormous help from several sides, because Darius is providing a lot of delicate work
in the engine department. But there are still so many things to keep an eye on,
because at the end, I'm the idiot who payed for all of this and all the others are like:
"Yeah, to bad that didn't work out."
And them I'm sitting there and thinking: "Hm, shit, I'll have to work at the supermarket then."
Darius on the other hand is completely relaxed. 
He can finally turn his attention to his actual assignment, the optimization of the engine.
It is quite a special toy, a nice V8 with good genes. The basis is really great.
The engine puts out 385 bhp. It accelerates in four and half seconds from nought to sixty.
After the first testdrive, Tim was thrilled by the Brit.
That sounds simply wicked. 
For a racing car, a good soundtrack is not enough.
That's where we come in. 
We are delighted if the basis is quite good, because then, you have more possibilites.
But actually, we are aiming quite a bit higher.
The engine of the Aston is being dissected. Darius is not leaving it at only a cosmetic change,
he surgically removes all the parts until the raw steal torso is left.
The most important part is the cylinder head. Darius is milling it on a nano-millimetre scale.
He wants to improve the intake characteristics and therefore providing more power.
How and where he applies this directly stays his secret.
We want to make it a four liter, the standard engine has 4.3 liters and 385 bhp.
We are reducing the engine capacity and want to reach close to 500 horsepowers.
Thats about 125 bhp per liter, which is were we need to end up.
Our objective here is, naturally, power. But we also have to consider the durability, 
after all it's not a sprint race, there are 24 hours it needs to withstand.
We really need to get going. 
That's true for Tim as well. Jörg van Ommen kept his promise.
Tims first training session starts of all places and fittingly on the legendary Nordschleife.
21km (13 miles) long, 72 corners, up to 17% incline. A real challenge for every racing driver.
On historic grounds, Tim and Jörg won't be in the cockpit this time, but on a saddle. 
Instead of lots of horsepowers, they are going with a bicycle on the track. 
Jörg has engaged the former bike riding professional Klaus Eweleit as a coach.
The 66-year-old leads and supervises the training. 
I didn't ride my bike here today, I arrived in my car.
With this kind of weather and for Tim, not in shape, I think it is actually to hard. 
Hence it is quite brave of Tim to do this. 
And I have some worries about the weather, because it is simply quite cold.