Aston Martin has introduced that it’s going to lastly be bringing the Valkyrie to the 24 Hours of Le Mans. The British producer will probably be reviving the shelved undertaking to enter the legendary French endurance race. The Le Mans Hypercar laws have been crafted three years in the past to draw automakers with the chance to race automobiles much like their highest-performance road-going fashions within the prime class, however nobody opted to go that route.
Aston Martin will probably be partnering with Heart of Racing, the group based by online game magnate Gabe Newell, to race the LMH Valkyrie within the FIA World Endurance Championship and the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship beginning in 2025. Heart of Racing has been related to the British automaker for the previous couple of seasons. The group gained IMSA’s GTD class championship final 12 months with a Vantage GT3 and expanded its operations to WEC this 12 months.
Lawrence Stroll, Aston Martin’s government chairman, stated in an announcement:
“We have been present at Le Mans since the earliest days, and through those glorious endeavours we succeeded in winning Le Mans in 1959 and our class 19 times over the past 95 years. Now we return to the scene of those first triumphs aiming to write new history with a racing prototype inspired by the fastest production car Aston Martin has ever built.”
Despite Heart of Racing transferring as much as the highest class, Aston Martin additionally introduced that it might construct a brand new Vantage-based racer compliant with the brand new LMGT3 laws. In 2020, the automaker introduced that it was suspending its LMH program to deal with its fledgling F1 group. Now, enlargement is on the playing cards with its huge newly-opening racing headquarters.
Source: jalopnik.com