First came the revolutionary Aston Martin Valkyrie road car. Now comes the radical evolution, in the form of the new Valkyrie AMR Pro: a machine which takes a car designed to win the 24 Hours of Le Mans as its starting point, then pushes further to explore extremes of performance unconstrained by racing regulations.

Back in 2019, Aston Martin, Adrian Newey, Red Bull Advanced Technologies and Multimatic worked intensively on an Aston Martin Valkyrie race car design, aimed at winning Le Mans in the new Hypercar class. That well advanced design has now formed the basis of the radical new Valkyrie AMR Pro.

Where the original concept proposal was very much an exercise in squeezing as much performance from the road legal Valkyrie platform, the new Valkyrie AMR Pro benefits from the Le Mans project’s pure, race optimised chassis, aerodynamic and powertrain developments. Moreover, with its design and performance freed from race rule constraints, the AMR Pro’s capabilities now exceed those of the machine designed to challenge for outright victory at Le Mans.

Using a unique version of the Valkyrie chassis which is longer and wider, the AMR Pro features an aggressive aerodynamic package which generates extraordinary levels of downforce – twice the amount of the Valkyrie road car.

More details of the Valkyrie AMR Pro will be released later this year, but their aim is a target lap time around the 8.5-mile Le Mans circuit of 3 minutes 20 seconds – blistering performance that would see Valkyrie AMR Pro battling with the front running LMP1 cars for the outright win.

The ultimate no rules Hypercar