There has perhaps never been an Aston Martin as extreme, or so eagerly anticipated, as the Valkyrie, an intensive street machine the product of a collaboration with Red Bull Racing. The Aston Martin Valkyrie is competing with rivals such as the Mercedes AMG One, the Koenigsegg Jesko Absolut, Hennessey Venom F5, the Bugatti Chiron Super Sport, Rimac Nevera, and more. While the stakes are high, and the Valkyrie is not even the fastest of its peers, there is a lot going in its favour that gives it the big clamour to become the ultimate street-going hypercar of the world. The Aston Martin Valkyrie program has tested all those working on it to their limits, but a commitment to a dream has produced an truly amazing machine, a Formula 1 machine on the road.
It will be at a level of performance that is unprecedented in road-going cars, or track-going cars, when compared with anything else out there. While the Valkyries outstanding aerodynamic package instantly sets it apart from any other car on the road, its engine is just as special. Where the Valkyrie truly demonstrates its F1 heritage is inside its engine bay, where a screaming power unit and a redline only matched by Gordon Murray Automotives similarly ridiculous T.50. As evidenced in this video, the Valkyrie matches the stance and brute force of the F1 machine.
The Valkyrie is the kind of vehicle that looks at home at the track in the future or the set of the next Transformers film. The Valkyrie is outrageously expensive, but that has not hampered its ability to generate serious interest. Loaded with unique touches, the Valkyrie offers more than enough to satisfy a hypercar customer. The result is the Valkyrie, which is set to become the fastest, most sophisticated supercar — or hypercar — in history.
Production of the road-going Valkyrie will be limited to 150 units, with an MSRP of $3m per unit. A track-only AMR Pro version will also be built along with the Valkyrie. A further 85 Valkyrie Spiders will follow, along with 40 track-only Valkyrie AMR Pros, which will command premiums above the PS2-PS3m price tag of the standard coupe. The street-going Valkyrie Coupe is estimated to be around $3.25 million pre-options, while the track-only AMR Pro commands a higher figure.
The Valkyrie is road-legal, but there is an AMR Pro option built exclusively for track use. The Spider variant uses the same 6.5-litre, naturally aspirated V12 as used in the street-legal Valkyrie, but with no KERS system. Although most of the 1s hybrid system was dropped in favour of the Valkyrie AMR Pro, a small electrical motor is still hanging out from the crankshaft, used to provide torque-fill in-between gear changes, and silently moving the car around the pitlane at speeds of up to 17mph.
The Valkyrie Hybrids drivetrain produces an impressive 1,160 hp. The biggest change is to the V12: Aston Martin has dropped the hybrid for an AMR Pro, aiming for lighter weights and faster lap times, meaning power has dropped from 1160 to 1000 bhp. For those who do not know, the Aston Martin Valkyrie is a Formula One-inspired hypercar powered by a 6.5-litre Cosworth V12 that can rev to 11,000rpm.
The sports car Valkyrie Its AM-RB 001 Nebula is a limited-production hybrid sports car jointly built by British automotive manufacturer Aston Martin, Red Bull Racing Advanced Technology, and a few others. The Valkyrie sports car is a collaborative effort by Aston Martin and Red Bull Racing to develop a track-focused vehicle that is equally capable of being used and enjoyed as a road-going vehicle, and was dreamed up by Adrian Newey, Dr. Andy Palmer, Christian Horner and Simon Spoule. In March 2017, Aston Martin revealed the Valkyrie sports car will be named the Valkyrie, in reference to a Norse mythological figure that guides the spirits of fallen Nordic soldiers in battle, leading them down one of two paths, with half going to Odins Valhalla, while the other half goes to Freyjas Goddess Folkvangr, after the deceased Nordic soldiers who fell to the battle site.
Aston Martin, an iconic British sportscar brand, is not one to shirk, with Aston Martin producing an Aston Martin Valkyrie. Several manufacturers (besides Aston Martin and Red Bull) were involved with building the sports car Valkyrie, these being Cosworth, Ricardo, Rimac Automobili, Multimatic, Alcon, Integral Powertrain Ltd, Bosch, Surface Transforms, Wipac, and Michelin. As the Aston Martin hotshoe, three-time world touring car champion, former Formula One test pilot, and 1 development pilot Andy Priaulx showed you, the capabilities of the Valkyrie AMR Pro are beyond mortals.
According to Aston Martin, a track-only 40-car Valkyrie AMR Pro would be faster on the circuit than the Hypercar Le Mans racer, and nearly as fast as a LMP1 or F1 car. The AMR Pro, being track-only, is not bound by any of those constraints, rather it is designed to fulfil Adrian Neweys fevered dream of creating a buyable car that would be as quick as an LMP1 racing front-running car. The AMR Pro is a crazy-fast machine, and a masterclass in engineering, but why it needs to be so quick remains an open question.
The Valkyrie is one of the most stunning road-legal cars ever made, limited to only 150 examples around the world. While the Valkyrie Hypercar from Aston Martin does not feature a genuine Formula 1 engine, as its competitor, the Mercedes-Benz AMG One, is currently promised to deliver by 2022, the custom-built V-12 is nonetheless a work of art. James Bond drove an Aston Martin, so it is natural that the Aston Martin is the ultimate city-driving, man-about-town machine, full of goodies that make for an effortless ride. And with its impressive sounds and looks, the Aston is not one for the humble, though you can still perfectly remain understated while you are owning one.
