With victory at Silverstone, Karl Wendlinger claimed his 13th overall win in the FIA GT Championship, and has overtaken former leader Jamie Campbell-Walter in terms of the most overall wins.  Campbell-Walter's record had stood since 2003, so this is a momentous occasion !

Karl Wendlinger has been racing in the Championship since 1998, when he raced for Chrysler Viper Team Oreca.  He won the title with the team in 1999, with Olivier Beretta, claiming 7 victories during those two years.

He left the Championship between 2000 and 2003, returning in 2004 with JMB Racing, first with the Ferrari 575 M Maranello and then with the Maserati MC 12.  In 2005, with Andrea Bertolini, he led the title fight for much of the season, with one win in Magny Cours, only dropping out at the last round in Bahrain with mechanical failure.   2006 saw him move to new Austrian team Race Alliance with an Aston Martin DBR9, claiming the team's first victory in Mugello. 

In 2007, the team renamed Jetalliance, he claimed three wins with Ryan Sharp, and finished second overall in the Championship.

Silverstone this year saw him claim the coveted Royal Automobile Club Tourist Trophy.  He is the first Austrian to win the Trophy since 1980, when Harald Neger and Heribert Werginz won with Umberto Grano and a BMW 635CSi.  Ryan Sharp, Wendlinger's British team-mate, is the first Briton to win the Trophy since 1988, when Andy Rouse won the Trophy.

This will be the fifth time that the name of Aston Martin will be inscribed on the Trophy since it was first awarded in 1905, after Peter Collins in 1953, Sir Stirling Moss and Tony Brook in 1958, Stirling Moss, Jack Fairman and Carroll Shelby in 1959 and Pedro Lamy/Peter Kox in 2005.