The Aston Martin Valkyrie Sounds Like An Old F1 Car
The sound of “THE” GREAT British car company! Thank you @Cosworth @redbullracing #AstonMartinValkyrie #NaturallyAspirated#V12 pic.twitter.com/HmEICj29uH
— Andy Palmer (@AndyatAston) October 3, 2018
The Mercedes-AMG One - as it’s now known - has the bragging rights of being powered by a powerplant derived from the company’s current F1 car. Transferring modern F1 tech to the road is an astonishing achievement, but there’s one notable snafu: the 1.6-litre V6s currently used in the sport aren’t exactly tuneful, are they?
The Aston Martin Valkyrie may not have an engine pinched from the top flight of single-seater racing (although it does have an F1-inspired energy recovery system), but its 6.3-litre Cosworth-sourced engine goes better than the fancy V6 in the Mercedes. It sounds like an F1 engine of the past, and that’s much, much more exciting to listen to.
Coinciding with Gaydon’s IPO launch, Aston Martin CEO Andy Palmer today Tweeted a sound clip of the engine - undergoing bench testing, from the sounds of it - and good lord is it a glorious noise. Ignore the accompanying video, and you can easily picture Ayrton Senna thrashing the living daylights out of a McLaren MP4/6 or similar. It’s tremendous.
The hypercar will develop over 1000bhp, weigh around a tonne, and is reportedly capable of generating an incredible 1800kg of downforce. Palmer has previously said that it’ll lap Silverstone faster than a contemporary F1 machine. And remember, this is a road legal car.
150 road-going Valkyries will be built, along with a further 25 even more extreme, track-only ‘AMR Pro’ examples.
Growing up on a diet of World Rally Championship highlights and lengthy Gran Turismo 2 sessions, a life in cars was as good as inevitable for Matt.
Comments
Should I keep this as my ringtone?
No I’m serious
It’s THAT good
Wow. It’s much more similar to Gilmour’s guitar then every other thing you can find on the road… This is music not an engine **
I’m . . . going to need some fresh underpants now
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all I heard was a screaming F1 engine…..that gave me tingles……I think they need to release that as a ringtone!
I just came
Now Coswoth and AM need to join forces and make an engine for Formula one. That must become a thing.
Sounds like it’s hitting around 11,000 RPM or so. Consider that all the other V12s of a similar size can only do 8 or 9k. Hypercar of the decade right here.
British engineering :’)