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I doubt it very much. It's not really anything anyone anymore publishes to my knowledge.
Some don't publish build production rates let alone anything else.
Valkyrie [Official] Aston Martin - From AM-RB 001 to Valkyrie
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The Aston Martin Valkyrie (also known by its code-names as AM-RB 001 and Nebula) is a limited production hybrid sports car collaboratively built by Aston Martin, Red Bull Racing Advanced Technologies, and several other parties. Production: November 2021 – December 2024.
I doubt it very much. It's not really anything anyone anymore publishes to my knowledge.
Some don't publish build production rates let alone anything else.
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No. The Valkyrie was almost certainly a loss for AM. That's why they decided to make additional 85 Spiders that were originally never planned and increased the AMR Pro build numbers from 25 to 40. Even with that, though, they must still be quite deep in the hole. The only way for the project to turn profit would be to make use of the Cosworth V12 in some other car somehow, since that would have been the biggest expenditure.
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Not surprised by the costs. Owning a Valykerie or Chiron is akin to maintaining a small aircraft. Any repair, maintenance or service is a 5 digit job.The Aston Martin Valkyrie Costs Two Lamborghini Supercars to Service Over 36 Months! (Excuse me?)
"Masterminded by one of the most successful designers in Formula 1, the Valkyrie isn't your usual supercar. It's a full-on hypercar with a Formula 1-inspired KERS boost system assisting a Cosworth-developed V12 of the naturally-aspirated variety. The downforce monster from Gaydon also happens to be a wildly expensive fellow in every respect, beginning with its retail price.
£2,500,000 is the opposite of chump change, with said amount converting to a staggering $3,275,000 at current exchange rates. The Valkyrie is eye-wateringly expensive in terms of maintenance as well. French motoring publication The Automobilist recently published a price list for the services required in the first 36 months, the grand total being £426,000 including VAT or $557,795 at current exchange rates.
Let that number sink in for a minute. Given that Lamborghini wants £212,000 for the Huracan Tecnica, the Valkyrie's maintenance costs total a couple of V10-powered supercars over the car's first three years of existence. But why is servicing so expensive, though?
For starters, did you expect anything else from Aston Martin's most extreme road-going car to date? Second, a V12 designed for a single application requires special maintenance items. But more importantly, Aston Martin knows that it can charge as much as it wants because it's Aston Martin and because it's a Valkyrie.
Excluding the 20 percent value-added tax, which amounts to £71,000 of the aforementioned £426,000, the total breaks down as £25,000 after 600 miles (1,000 kilometers) or 6 months, £85,000 after 3,100 miles (5,000 kilometers) or 12 months, £150,000 after 6,200 miles (10,000 kilometers) or 24 months, and £95,000 after 9,300 miles (15,000 kilometers) or 36 months.
Attached below, the owner's manual for the Valkyrie lists the items that need to be serviced or replaced. From said manual, we learn that Aston Martin rebuilds the hypercar's transmission every 31,000 miles (50,000 kilometers). The rear half shafts need replacing every 62,000 miles (100,000 kilometers), whereas the wheel center locks and cones have to be replaced every 6,000 miles (10,000 kilometers) or every 5 wheel changes.
Weirdly enough, the owner's manual doesn't say a thing about a full engine replacement. Bruce Wood, the managing director of Cosworth, famously took an unintentional dig at the Mercedes-AMG ONE by claiming 62,000 miles (100,000 kilometers) as opposed to 30,000 miles (50,000 kilometers) for the Formula 1-derived V6 mill of the German hypercar. Considering the earlier costs, can you imagine how expensive an engine-out service would be?
Only 150 coupes will ever be produced, with Aston Martin estimating over 2,000 man hours for each from start to finish. The Valkyrie Spider is limited to 85 units. The AMR Pro, which is a track-only version of the Valkyrie, is limited to merely 25 units. Not surprising in the least, all three versions are sold out."
The Aston Martin Valkyrie Costs Two Lamborghini Supercars to Service Over 36 Months
Including £71,000 worth of value-added tax, the Aston Martin Valkyrie's maintenance costs over 36 months total a ridiculous £426,000www.autoevolution.com
Well that was an interesting read, to say the least!
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And I've just found out about this~
Something in Daily Sports Cars or similar. I'll check later.
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"Gordon Ramsay Made A Grilled Cheese With A $3 Million Aston Martin Valkyrie!"
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Gordon Ramsay Made A Grilled Cheese With A $3 Million Aston Martin Valkyrie - Jalopnik
What’s your go-to snack out on the road? Personally, I’m a sucker for either a pouch of Old Bay Goldfish (until my stockpile runs out) or a nice bag of red grapes. But if you’re a professional chef, you can probably muster up something better, can’t you?
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Tell me his name!
Edit: I should of guessed. OK it is gone, however the guillotine is not.
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I made a graph showing all the different downforce modes of the car using data from SportAuto's youtube video. It nicely illustrates the bleeding off of the df to protect the tyres.
The yellow area with question mark is what we don't know about the DF levels during cornering bellow 220kph.
Assuming they don't hold anything back when braking in track mode, I extrapolated that curve to see what could be the full potential of a standard Valkyrie (it's 1,420kg @ 250kph and close to 2,800kg at top speed).
I added Praga Bohema with fixed aero for context because it's a close rival on paper.
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Here's an English translation of sport auto's Valkyrie track test at Bahrain.
https://imgur.com/a/oUBkq0d
https://imgur.com/a/oUBkq0d
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These were apparently emailed out to clients within the last past week atleast in the United States of America.
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Aston Martin closing in on 2025 Le Mans Hypercar entry
British car maker has motorsport ambitions beyond Formula 1 and GT racing!
"Aston Martin is closing in on a return to the premier category of the Le Mans 24 Hours with a race-spec version of its Valkyrie hypercar in 2025, in a bid for its first overall victory at the French classic since 1959.
The British firm had announced plans to develop a Le Mans Hypercar (LMH) version of the Adrian Newey-designed Valkyrie, a joint project with top Formula 1 squad Red Bull Racing, back in 2019. These were later put on ice – but Autocar sources have now confirmed that the project has been revived.
As first reported by Autosport, the new project would be a partnership between Aston and US-based sports car squad Heart of Racing, which currently competes in the GT class of sports car racing, and could involve Valkyrie LMH cars racing in both the FIA World Endurance Championship and the US-based IMSA championship.
Aston Martin would not confirm the Valkyrie LMH project, but in a statement said the firm was "encouraged" by the growth of the Hypercar division at Le Mans, adding that as "a global hypercar brand we continue to play close attention to the class.”
The LMH rules allow manufacturers considerable free rein to produce hybrid prototype racers, with Balance of Performance (BoP) rules then used to level their performance. Ferrari, Toyota and Peugeot currently build cars to the LMH rules.
There is also a cost-controlled LMDh category, which features entrants such as Porsche and Cadillac and uses spec chassis and hybrid systems.
Autocar first revealed Aston chairman Lawrence Stroll's interest in reviving plans to compete in the LMH class of Le Mans in February 2022. Speaking at the launch of the Formula 1 team’s 2022 AMR22 car, the Canadian billionaire made the admission that the British car maker has greater ambitions than simply maintaining its presence in GT racing.
“We fully intend to go back to racing other than in F1,” he said. “We’ve never stopped racing in GT3 and GT4, and we won [the GTE Pro class at] Le Mans two years ago. That programme will continue and be enhanced.
“Now that I’ve started Aston Martin Performance Technologies as a division of the F1 team, it will get a lot more involved in the development of our mid-engined programme out of the new F1 factory [being built near Silverstone].
“In addition, we are in discussions to go back to Le Mans.”
Stroll refused to be drawn on a timescale for the return. “We’re not there yet,” he said. “I’m a racer myself. I have been all my life. Racing is in my blood, which is why I’m here. We should be racing in whichever category aligns with the message we are trying to deliver for Aston Martin.”
Aston Martin had been primed as one of the first manufacturers to enter the new Hypercar era, which began last year at Le Mans and in the World Endurance Championship. But a programme based around the Valkyrie was scotched by Stroll following his consortium takeover of Aston Martin Lagonda early in 2020.
The two hypercar classes have sparked considerable manufacturer interest in Le Mans. Lamborghini will enter an LMDh car next year, with BMW, Acura (Honda) and Alpine all working on entries. Bentley and McLaren entries are also future possibilities.
If – and it is believed when – Stroll presses the button on a Le Mans programme, he is expected to commit Aston Martin to the same LMH class that Toyota, Peugeot and Ferrari have chosen, with a car based on the Valkyrie AMR Pro. Pitched as the ‘ultimate no-rules hypercar’, the 1000bhp hybrid-enhanced V12-powered car was built with a specific target to lap the 8.5-mile Le Mans circuit in 3min 20sec. Last year, Kamui Kobayashi took pole position for the race in Toyota Gazoo Racing’s GR010 Hybrid in 3min 23.900sec.
Aston Martin has a long and prestigious history at Le Mans, and yet despite a number of class wins in the GT category, it can boast only a single overall success: when Roy Salvadori and Carroll Shelby steered a DBR1 to victory in 1959."
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British car maker has motorsport ambitions beyond Formula 1 and GT racing!
"Aston Martin is closing in on a return to the premier category of the Le Mans 24 Hours with a race-spec version of its Valkyrie hypercar in 2025, in a bid for its first overall victory at the French classic since 1959.
The British firm had announced plans to develop a Le Mans Hypercar (LMH) version of the Adrian Newey-designed Valkyrie, a joint project with top Formula 1 squad Red Bull Racing, back in 2019. These were later put on ice – but Autocar sources have now confirmed that the project has been revived.
As first reported by Autosport, the new project would be a partnership between Aston and US-based sports car squad Heart of Racing, which currently competes in the GT class of sports car racing, and could involve Valkyrie LMH cars racing in both the FIA World Endurance Championship and the US-based IMSA championship.
Aston Martin would not confirm the Valkyrie LMH project, but in a statement said the firm was "encouraged" by the growth of the Hypercar division at Le Mans, adding that as "a global hypercar brand we continue to play close attention to the class.”
The LMH rules allow manufacturers considerable free rein to produce hybrid prototype racers, with Balance of Performance (BoP) rules then used to level their performance. Ferrari, Toyota and Peugeot currently build cars to the LMH rules.
There is also a cost-controlled LMDh category, which features entrants such as Porsche and Cadillac and uses spec chassis and hybrid systems.
Autocar first revealed Aston chairman Lawrence Stroll's interest in reviving plans to compete in the LMH class of Le Mans in February 2022. Speaking at the launch of the Formula 1 team’s 2022 AMR22 car, the Canadian billionaire made the admission that the British car maker has greater ambitions than simply maintaining its presence in GT racing.
“We fully intend to go back to racing other than in F1,” he said. “We’ve never stopped racing in GT3 and GT4, and we won [the GTE Pro class at] Le Mans two years ago. That programme will continue and be enhanced.
“Now that I’ve started Aston Martin Performance Technologies as a division of the F1 team, it will get a lot more involved in the development of our mid-engined programme out of the new F1 factory [being built near Silverstone].
“In addition, we are in discussions to go back to Le Mans.”
Stroll refused to be drawn on a timescale for the return. “We’re not there yet,” he said. “I’m a racer myself. I have been all my life. Racing is in my blood, which is why I’m here. We should be racing in whichever category aligns with the message we are trying to deliver for Aston Martin.”
Aston Martin had been primed as one of the first manufacturers to enter the new Hypercar era, which began last year at Le Mans and in the World Endurance Championship. But a programme based around the Valkyrie was scotched by Stroll following his consortium takeover of Aston Martin Lagonda early in 2020.
The two hypercar classes have sparked considerable manufacturer interest in Le Mans. Lamborghini will enter an LMDh car next year, with BMW, Acura (Honda) and Alpine all working on entries. Bentley and McLaren entries are also future possibilities.
If – and it is believed when – Stroll presses the button on a Le Mans programme, he is expected to commit Aston Martin to the same LMH class that Toyota, Peugeot and Ferrari have chosen, with a car based on the Valkyrie AMR Pro. Pitched as the ‘ultimate no-rules hypercar’, the 1000bhp hybrid-enhanced V12-powered car was built with a specific target to lap the 8.5-mile Le Mans circuit in 3min 20sec. Last year, Kamui Kobayashi took pole position for the race in Toyota Gazoo Racing’s GR010 Hybrid in 3min 23.900sec.
Aston Martin has a long and prestigious history at Le Mans, and yet despite a number of class wins in the GT category, it can boast only a single overall success: when Roy Salvadori and Carroll Shelby steered a DBR1 to victory in 1959."
First pictures: Aston Martin tests Le Mans Valkyrie | Autocar
V12-powered hypercar is shaken down ahead of 2025 endurance racing campaign
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At this stage not alot of detail has been gone into but I know the AMR Pro was very extreme, infact I don't think it fit regulations then? Now I don’t know!
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If AM go endurance racing, it will likely have nothing to do with the Valkyrie.
In LMH regs, the engine is limited to 670PS. They could detune the Cosworth V12, but then it's unnecessarily large and heavy compared to other race engines.
The chassis and the bodywork are not good enough either. The cabin is still too wide and even the AMR Pro probably doesn't conform to a couple dozen regs.
I guess they could make it work if they really wanted to - as with BoP the car can be shit and still do reasonably well - but it's gonna be very different even from the AMR Pro. Most likely they will go for a completely separate design, though.
In LMH regs, the engine is limited to 670PS. They could detune the Cosworth V12, but then it's unnecessarily large and heavy compared to other race engines.
The chassis and the bodywork are not good enough either. The cabin is still too wide and even the AMR Pro probably doesn't conform to a couple dozen regs.
I guess they could make it work if they really wanted to - as with BoP the car can be shit and still do reasonably well - but it's gonna be very different even from the AMR Pro. Most likely they will go for a completely separate design, though.
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^Aston Martin have already won or did then win GT World Championship ouright against Porsche and Ferrari in the longest season of racing ever with the Vantange and more importantly the AMG V8 twin turbocharged units and there's many to choose from.
110% they could be adapted as they very obviously have before.
But is that then a Valkyrie? No. But Aston Martin will use that name it seems anyway! I guess we'll see.
110% they could be adapted as they very obviously have before.
But is that then a Valkyrie? No. But Aston Martin will use that name it seems anyway! I guess we'll see.
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