The Aston Martin Valkyrie AMR Pro Is The Track-Only Beast That Can Match F1 Lap Times

This is the mighty Aston Martin Valkyrie AMR Pro, and it wants to eat you alive. It’s the extreme track-only version of the Adrian Newey-designed hypercar built by Aston and Red Bull Advanced Technologies.

Just 25 of the 6.5-litre V12 animals revealed in these designers’ sketches will be built, with deliveries scheduled for 2020. Obviously, they’re all pre-sold. Every surface has been revised, says Aston, to offer much more overall downforce than the road-legal version – although we don’t have a number yet.

What we do know is that on its standard Michelin racing tyres the Valkyrie AMR Pro will sustain cornering G-force of ‘over 3.3g’ and braking force of over 3.5g. That is pretty serious, but a long way short of Formula 1 standards.

Even so, the massive output from the hybrid drivetrain, rumoured to be well over 1100bhp, gives the car a top speed of around 250mph. The AMR Pro version of the Cosworth-built V12 gets a specific calibration to deliver more power and torque.

All that leads Aston and Red Bull to claim that the Valkyrie will be able to lap the world’s major tracks in comparable times to today’s F1 cars and LMP1 machines. Bold.

Further weight-saving over the standard car comes by removing the heater and de-mister block, and the infotainment unit. The windscreen is a heated polycarbonate item that saves kilograms, with matching side windows.

New suspension uprights and carbonfibre wishbones save more mass, and the normal seat has been swapped for an ultra-lightweight pair of moulded race seats. The exhaust will be lighter because some of the legally necessary sound-deadening material can be removed.

The gram-shaving detail even extends to the body panels themselves, which are made from a thinner, lighter carbonfibre weave than the road car’s. Make no mistake, this is not just the Valkyrie with the wick turned up a bit. We can’t wait to see the real thing.