Valkyrie [Official] Aston Martin - From AM-RB 001 to Valkyrie

[Tourbillon]

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[Revvd]

It's been almost 2 years since the Valkyrie production started and I'm still waiting for Aston Martin to grow some balls and do a hot lap on Silverstone or Spa.

They told us fairy tales about its pace being on the same level as F1, then LMP1, then it changed to LMP2... Now they don't want to show the receipts, probably afraid it's gonna be barely faster than a GT3.

Come on, do it this summer! Before everyone forgets about this whole project.

 

[Bridster]

It's been almost 2 years since the Valkyrie production started and I'm still waiting for Aston Martin to grow some balls and do a hot lap on Silverstone or Spa.

They told us fairy tales about its pace being on the same level as F1, then LMP1, then it changed to LMP2... Now they don't want to show the receipts, probably afraid it's gonna be barely faster than a GT3.

Come on, do it this summer! Before everyone forgets about this whole project.

If they haven't done it by now, then it's not gonna happen. That they even let Sport Auto do a timed lap around the Bahrain circuit is already something of a minor miracle.

The one hope for more timed laps we have is that with many cars delivered now, some adventurous owner will lend one to some publication, or they will hire a pro driver and do a video of it themselves. When this might happen, though, who knows. Could be years.

 

[Tourbillon]

They're gearing up for Le Man's with a new (ish?) Hypercar and the GT3 Racing with the new Vantage.

I agree they should definitely do something but they're not seemingly bothered.

And the Aston Martin Valhalla is taking possible centre stage too. They've published a Nurburgring Time to chase already.

 

[Revvd]

It's all the more disappointing seeing how many entries McLaren Senna has on fastestlaps.com. There's no less than 27 lap times, starting in 2018 - that's the first year of production afaik.
What is so hard about giving Evo a car to do a cheeky Anglesey lap? Have they repurposed and sold all the prototypes already? Is there not one car left to be used as a loaner? Surely not.

It should be easy. You make a track focused car, you give people what they want - provide press cars. I don't know what is Aston Martin trying to play here, but acting like this mysterious brand, which is above instrumented tests, really doesn't go well with the earlier claims about its pace.
Being fast on a race track is the primary reason for this car's existence. They should be ridiculed by the press, instead of the constant uncritical circle-jerking (or even obfuscating) about the specs and the shapes of the aero. CH gets big props for being real, but the rest of them are pretty much overqualified influencers at this point.

Owners have also been awfully quiet. Not sure if there's NDAs at play or if they're aware enough to not want to have a hand in tanking the car's market value. With how things are going, this car is on track to become the next XJ220.

And I don't want to sound like some entitled pleb, but it was them who boasted about this thing being as fast as LMP2.

 

[Bucketslash11]

It's been almost 2 years since the Valkyrie production started and I'm still waiting for Aston Martin to grow some balls and do a hot lap on Silverstone or Spa.

They told us fairy tales about its pace being on the same level as F1, then LMP1, then it changed to LMP2... Now they don't want to show the receipts, probably afraid it's gonna be barely faster than a GT3.

Come on, do it this summer! Before everyone forgets about this whole project.

given that it was announced and shown around the same time as the AMG One and the McLaren Senna then they should AT LEAST prove that they're faster than the competition around a track

 

[bmwz4coupe]

We shouldn’t expect much from Aston Martin. Their last supercar, the One-77, has never been instrumental tested. Let’s hope one of the Valkyrie owners will borow out their car for a good cause….

 

[Revvd]

the One-77, has never been instrumental tested

Not only that, Aston didn't even let anyone have a drive in One-77. Autocar was only allowed to ride shotgun and Evo was approached by a generous owner.

This isn’t an Aston Martin press car and the company hasn’t helped us to locate a One-77 to test. In fact, the intention was that no media outlet would ever drive a One-77.

But the owner of this car wants to see it used like a supercar ought to be, and for that we owe him an eclipse-inducing debt of gratitude. For the next two days his One-77 is in our custody and we’ll drive it here at Millbrook and on sopping wet, bumpy and very real roads.

Luckily for us, Valkyrie is a much more fascinating car and so IMO it's inevitable that at some point a Valkyrie owner will call an office of one of these magazines. It's just a matter of time.

 

[Bucketslash11]

Luckily for us, Valkyrie is a much more fascinating car and so IMO it's inevitable that at some point a Valkyrie owner will call an office of one of these magazines. It's just a matter of time.

same as with the OG holy trinity (outside of Porsche), it was impossible to get all 3 cars tested and measured unless magazines were approached by owners

for the One-77 all we had was the 220mph test

 

[KiwiRob]

They’ve sold every car they’re going to build so it really doesn’t matter to them.

 

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[WBarnes]

That gearbox noise spoils it a little.

 

[Moctecus]

Looks like that official fuel consumption of 45.7 l/100km in the WLTP low cycle might be fairly accurate.

 

[Bridster]

Looks like that official fuel consumption of 45.7 l/100km in the WLTP low cycle might be fairly accurate.

And with a 50L fuel tank, that makes the range of the car about 109km. Which, now that I think about it, could actually be the worst range of any road car ever. The old V12 beasts with terrible fuel consumption like the Countach, for example, had huge (120L) fuel tanks to compensate.