- An Aston Martin Valkyrie AMR-LMH race automotive is being developed for the highest class of the IMSA SportsCar Championship and FIA World Endurance Championship
- The automotive will likely be fielded by the brand new group Aston Martin Thor and begin racing in 2025
- The group’s first two drivers have been introduced
Aston Martin on Thursday supplied an replace on its program to enter a race automotive primarily based on the Valkyrie hypercar in top-level endurance racing beginning in 2025, together with naming the primary two drivers.
Aston Martin plans to discipline two examples of the race automotive, which is named the Valkyrie AMR-LMH, in each the IMSA SportsCar Championship and FIA World Endurance Championship. The latter boasts the 24 Hours of Le Mans on the calendar, and this time Aston Martin will chase outright victory on the French basic, one thing it achieved solely as soon as, in 1959, with Roy Salvadori and Carroll Shelby in an Aston Martin DBR1.
Alex Riberas
The Valkyrie AMR-LMH race automobiles will likely be fielded by the brand new group Aston Martin Thor, a partnership between Aston Martin and Coronary heart of Racing, a U.S.-based group that already competes with Aston Martin Vantage race automobiles on the GT3 stage. The primary confirmed drivers for the brand new group are Alex Riberas and Harry Tincknell. Extra drivers will likely be named in the end.
Riberas has already raced for Coronary heart of Racing on the GT3 stage in each the SportsCar Championship (GTD Professional) and World Endurance Championship (LMGT3), and has notched up some wins. Tincknell has additionally competed within the World Endurance Championship with some wins underneath his belt, together with spending time behind the wheel of the Ford GT race automotive and Nissan’s failed GT-R LM Nismo LMP1.
Harry Tincknell
The Valkyrie AMR-LMH they may pilot is being developed to satisfy LMH guidelines, which can make it eligible for the premier GTP class of the SportsCar Championship and Hypercar class of the World Endurance Championship. The Aston Martin Formulation 1 group’s Aston Martin Efficiency Applied sciences consulting division is creating the automotive, in partnership with Coronary heart of Racing.
Aston Martin has already accomplished a lot of the event for the race automotive, because the Valkyrie AMR Professional observe automotive launched in 2021 was initially supposed to be an LMH race automotive able to compete at Le Mans as early as 2021, although the plan was scuttled in 2020 following the onset of the pandemic.
Aston Martin Valkyrie
The Valkyrie AMR-LMH will likely be a really completely different beast to the highway automotive whose title it shares. It would function a novel chassis that is each longer and wider than the chassis within the highway automotive. It would retain the highway automotive’s 6.5-liter V-12, however with modifications to satisfy Steadiness of Efficiency guidelines in addition to sturdiness to final the size of a 24-hour race. The mild-hybrid system of the highway automotive can even be eliminated for the race automotive.
The Valkyrie AMR-LMH’s first races would be the Qatar 1812 km subsequent February and 12 Hours of Sebring subsequent March. The races are the opening rounds for the respective World Endurance Championship and SportsCar Championship.
