Aston Martin has begun deliveries of the Valkyrie AMR Pro – the track-only version of the V12-powered hypercar that the company says offers an equivalent level of performance to a top-flight race car.
While the Valkyrie project has gone well beyond its original timescale, and the Formula 1 connection between Aston Martin and Red Bull Racing that underpinned it has since been dissolved, Aston Martin says it is on track to deliver more than 75 examples of the road-going Valkyrie and the track-only AMR Pro to customers this year.
At the Miami Grand Prix, Aston Martin creative director Marek Reichman took Autocar through the changes that mark the AMR Pro out from the ‘regular’ Valkyrie. As well as a longer wheelbase, the track-only car has a different tub with even lighter construction and some dimensional changes allowed by the lack of road homologation.
“The car was designed to keep the packaging as tight as possible around the constraints of a human and an engine,” said Reichman. “We don’t have a millimetre of spare space. It’s almost exoskeletal in its design. The tub is the structure, there’s no cladding in it.”
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