Aston Martin is shaking down its Valkyrie AMR-LMH endurance race car, and no shock, it sounds fantastic. The model posted a really brief video clip of the automotive working at each Silverstone and Donnington Park, and whereas there’s unlucky music within the background, we get an excellent hearken to its naturally aspirated 6.5-liter Cosworth V-12. We will not wait to listen to this echoing down the Mulsanne at Le Mans.
The Valkyrie AMR-LMH relies on the Valkyrie road car, however modified to suit the FIA’s Le Mans Hypercar guidelines. Developed in tandem with the Coronary heart of Racing staff, the Valkyrie AMR-LMH ditches the highway automotive’s hybrid system and can run a detuned model of the V-12, as its 1,000-hp output far exceeds the bounds for Hypercars. Aston Martin and the Coronary heart of Racing intend to enter each the 2025 IMSA WeatherTech championship and the World Endurance Championship, so each are exhausting at work testing for subsequent yr. Per our colleagues at Motorsport.com, Aston hasn’t confirmed whether or not it plans to run the 2025 IMSA season-opener Rolex 24 at Daytona, however it should run at Le Mans.
Each time it hits the monitor, it’s going to be the one Hypercar derived from an precise highway automotive, a throwback to the GT1 period of the late Nineties. It will even be the one sports activities prototype with a V-12, with the remainder of the sphere working V-6s and V-8s. So you’ll hear it coming.
