The Aston Martin Valkyrie AMR Pro Is The Track-Only Beast That Can Match F1 Lap Times
This is the mighty Aston Martin Valkyrie AMR Pro, and it wants to eat you alive. It’s the extreme track-only version of the Adrian Newey-designed hypercar built by Aston and Red Bull Advanced Technologies.
Just 25 of the 6.5-litre V12 animals revealed in these designers’ sketches will be built, with deliveries scheduled for 2020. Obviously, they’re all pre-sold. Every surface has been revised, says Aston, to offer much more overall downforce than the road-legal version – although we don’t have a number yet.
What we do know is that on its standard Michelin racing tyres the Valkyrie AMR Pro will sustain cornering G-force of ‘over 3.3g’ and braking force of over 3.5g. That is pretty serious, but a long way short of Formula 1 standards.
Even so, the massive output from the hybrid drivetrain, rumoured to be well over 1100bhp, gives the car a top speed of around 250mph. The AMR Pro version of the Cosworth-built V12 gets a specific calibration to deliver more power and torque.
All that leads Aston and Red Bull to claim that the Valkyrie will be able to lap the world’s major tracks in comparable times to today’s F1 cars and LMP1 machines. Bold.
Further weight-saving over the standard car comes by removing the heater and de-mister block, and the infotainment unit. The windscreen is a heated polycarbonate item that saves kilograms, with matching side windows.
New suspension uprights and carbonfibre wishbones save more mass, and the normal seat has been swapped for an ultra-lightweight pair of moulded race seats. The exhaust will be lighter because some of the legally necessary sound-deadening material can be removed.
The gram-shaving detail even extends to the body panels themselves, which are made from a thinner, lighter carbonfibre weave than the road car’s. Make no mistake, this is not just the Valkyrie with the wick turned up a bit. We can’t wait to see the real thing.
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Aston is a title sponsor of redbull and it could reach f1 laptimes do does that mean aston is developing a f1car
This is their f1 car.
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That’s an Aston? Looks like something made by Koenigsegg or Hennesey
More like if both Koenigsegg and Hennessy were drunk while doing a collab
I’ve seen the Vulcan AMR pro before, and it’s already savage. This is just literally an F1 car.
More like an LMP1 car with much more power.
It looks like a group C car of the future. FIA, ya wanna…. wanna try some of this? Eh?
Imagine the battle between this beast, the Mercedes-AMG project one and the new ultimate series McLaren P15…
Would die to see that
Bruh the car still doesn’t have it’s built prototype and they say “IT IS THE BEST AM EVER!”
I’m highly skeptical. Sure i have no doubt this will eat an fxxk evo,one:1or p1 gtr for breakfast ,lunch and dinner . But f1 cars are on another level . Lmp1 cars are around 10 seconds slower than current f1 cars Maybe it’ll match lmp1 or 2014 f1 car lap times but not 2017 f1 times imo. Also comparble and match are very different words . You don’t have to match lap times to be ‘comparable’ . A lmp1 lap time is comparable to current f1 lap times but they are still 10 seconds slower . I would assume this would have around the same lap speed as an lmp1 car
Of course it if does match them i will be pleasantly suprised
Actually the TS050 managed to defeat an F1 car by 0.1 seconds on Spa I think. Not sure what F1 car tho
The downforce on these cars will be insane (probably not F1 levels, but possibly LMP1 levels). They are also far more powerful. LMP1 cars have a lot of electric motor power meaning they can only deploy peak power for a very limited amount of time.
Cue to automotive vloggers putting this up against the AMG F1-car-put-in-a-shell in a year or less after they come out
Spa 2017 f1 pole - 1.42.553 (mercedes w08)
Spa 2017 lmp1 pole - 1.54.097 ( porsche 919)
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