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 shall be fielded by the brand new group Aston Martin Thor, and can begin racing in 2025
The group’s first two drivers have been introduced
Aston Martin on Thursday offered 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 area two examples of the race automotive, which is called 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 Aston Martin is ready to chase outright victory on the French traditional, 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 vehicles shall 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 vehicles on the GT3 degree. The primary confirmed drivers for the brand new group are Alex Riberas and Harry Tincknell. Further drivers shall be named in the end.
Riberas has already raced for Coronary heart of Racing on the GT3 degree 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 below 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 are going to pilot is being developed to fulfill 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 System 1 group’s Aston Martin Efficiency Applied sciences consulting division is creating the automotive, in partnership with Coronary heart of Racing.
Aston Martin already accomplished a lot of the event in years prior, because the Valkyrie AMR Professional observe automotive launched in 2021 was initially meant 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 shall be a really completely different beast to the highway automotive, whose title it shares. It is going to function a singular chassis that is each longer and wider than the chassis within the highway automotive. It is going to retain the highway automotive’s 6.5-liter V-12, however with modifications to fulfill Stability 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 respective opening rounds for the World Endurance Championship and SportsCar Championship.
