The Aston Martin Valkyrie stands out due to its wild design aerodynamics and performance. This is an open-wheel racer with the bare minimum of body panels to somewhat resemble a road car. The Valkyrie is one of the fastest and most advanced supercars or hypercar in history. With the high-speed tech mostly handled by Red Bull and Newey and the top-hat design was designed by Aston Martin. The difficult jobs of developing, manufacturing, styling, and servicing the car were Aston’s responsibility. This was so because the car needed a brand that has what it takes to hand a supercar of this magnitude hence the car wearing the Aston Martin badge. You are surely going to be surprised at what the Valkyrie has to offer. Seatback as we take you through some of its features.
The Valkyrie Exterior Design
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The Valkyrie is different from Ferrari and McLaren since cooling comes from below and above, not from big side radiators which gives a very different aesthetic.’Aston Martin executive VP and chief creative officer, Marek Reichman, describes the new look, as ‘agile, lithe, elemental and with a unique Aston Martin form language, and a real bloodline from the Valkyrie nothing that It’ll be a lighter and more efficient supercar.’
Aston Martin Valkyrie is more advanced than a Formula 1 car with a slither of a sports car body. The car comes with active aerodynamics and active suspension including variable ride height as proscribed by F1 rules. It’s low, small, and very sleek. It features a high nose, a big front wing hovering above the tarmac, and wide aero tunnels channeling air through the car’s smooth underside. From the rear, two vast underbody venturi tunnels incorporate a rear diffuser with mechanicals suspended from a smooth-surfaced pod in the middle.
The hypercar comes with a small and narrow canopy and at the same time, the narrow canopy determines the size of the cockpit in which your guess is good as mine. It boasts of gullwing doors although their opening apertures are small. Although vaulting the high carbon sill does take some athleticism. The vast single wiper lies upright in the middle of the wrap-around windscreen.
The Tight Interior
The Valkyries’ interior is minimalist, stark, and efficient. The interior can be accessed through a small prototype race car-style gullwing doors. To enter, you step onto the seat and then slide in and adopt a reclined feet-up position just like in a modern F1 racer. Aston has made the seats tailored for each buyer. It has some creature comforts but little decoration. Air-con will be essential. The windows don’t open.
The seating position makes it such that you sit very near the car’s center-line and very close to your passenger but there is a decent fore/aft room, though. Reichman is 6ft 3in tall and fits in just fine. You sit angled 2º inwards. You’re aware of the feet-up driving position, necessary as air gushes under your feet to work the underbody aero magic.
The AMR Pro
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What to expect from the AMR Pro is Aston ditching the hybrid powertrain for the AMR Pro ‘in pursuit of the lightest weight and fastest lap times,’ with this, power drops from 1,160bhp to 1,000bhp. Not to worry as Aston has confidently set a target for the AMR Pro: a lap of the 8.5-mile Le Mans circuit in 3m 20s. Outside the engine tweaks, the AMR Pro features carbon fiber suspension wishbones, a Perspex windscreen, and aero that ‘exceeds Le Mans Hypercar regulations.’
Other features of the AMR Pro include a wheelbase that is 380mm longer and 96mm wider than a standard Valkyrie and features a bespoke body kit for slamming the Valkyrie into the tarmac, including a mammoth front splitter that adds another 266mm to the length of the car. The first deliveries of the Valkyrie AMR Pro are expected to start at the end of 2021. Aston says all of them will be left-hand drive and just 40 will be made. This track-only version of the Valkyrie hypercar will start dominating racing circuits across the world towards the end of 2021.
The Valkyrie Engine Performance
The Valkyrie comes with a bespoke naturally aspirated 6.5-litre V12 from Cosworth. An output generated from the bespoke V-12 and KERS-style hybrid system is 1,139 hp. The car’s peak torque output is 546lb-ft at 7000rpm with acceleration from 0 to 62mph in 3.0sec having a top speed of 200mph. Transmission is a Seven-speed sequential, rear-wheel drive. The sound at full tilt is Just like an F1 engine from the 1990s, thanks in part to its 12-into-1 exhaust design.
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