Aston Martin Valkyrie @ Le Mans 2025

Aston Martin Valkyrie @ Le Mans 2025

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Baron Von Alders

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326 posts

288 months

Wednesday 4th October 2023
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Aston Martin Valkyrie will carry Aston Martin into the fight for overall victory in the 24 Hours of Le Mans. Backed by Aston Martin’s championship-winning endurance racing partner Heart of Racing, from 2025, at least one Valkyrie racecar will grace the Hyperclass class of both the FIA World Endurance Championship and IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championships.

https://www.astonmartin.com/en/our-world/brand-sto...

https://media.astonmartin.com/aston-martin-returns...

VladD

8,008 posts

272 months

Wednesday 4th October 2023
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Excellent news. Can't wait.

Some Gump

12,868 posts

193 months

Wednesday 4th October 2023
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Great news! The 15 minutes it does before dropping off the lead lap will sound fantastic smile

davidd

6,527 posts

291 months

Thursday 5th October 2023
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'Hey Daddy, I'm not doing very well in F1, can you find me something else to do please?'

Some Gump

12,868 posts

193 months

Thursday 5th October 2023
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No idea why such hate for lance stroll.

He’s obviously fortunate, but there have been loads and loads of pay drivers in f1.

He’s not even that bad, compare him to say magnusson. Or the 2nd bloke in the Williams.

davidd

6,527 posts

291 months

Thursday 5th October 2023
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Some Gump said:
No idea why such hate for lance stroll.

He’s obviously fortunate, but there have been loads and loads of pay drivers in f1.

He’s not even that bad, compare him to say magnusson. Or the 2nd bloke in the Williams.
I certainly don't hate him. There are a lot of rumors that he wants to move on.

//j17

4,616 posts

230 months

Thursday 5th October 2023
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So...that's the second time A-M have said the Valkyrie will race in WEC. Wonder if they'll actually do it this time, not demand changes to the rules, making life harder for everyone then pull out, again...

Aysedasi2

580 posts

24 months

Thursday 5th October 2023
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davidd said:
I certainly don't hate him. There are a lot of rumors that he wants to move on.
He's already driven the Valkyrie and was pretty impressed.... He knows full well that he's never going to be F1 WDC and he's never likely to win an F1 race, so why not.....?

Edited by Aysedasi2 on Thursday 5th October 09:53

Aysedasi2

580 posts

24 months

Thursday 5th October 2023
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//j17 said:
So...that's the second time A-M have said the Valkyrie will race in WEC. Wonder if they'll actually do it this time, not demand changes to the rules, making life harder for everyone then pull out, again...
To all intents and purposes, this is a customer car, so HOR must be satisfied it can (and will) be done.

VladD

8,008 posts

272 months

Thursday 5th October 2023
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//j17 said:
So...that's the second time A-M have said the Valkyrie will race in WEC. Wonder if they'll actually do it this time, not demand changes to the rules, making life harder for everyone then pull out, again...
Reading the other article, it seems that they committed to enter and then the rules changed, which is why they pulled out. Don't know what the real truth is, probably a bit of both.

Aysedasi2

580 posts

24 months

Thursday 5th October 2023
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VladD said:
Reading the other article, it seems that they committed to enter and then the rules changed, which is why they pulled out. Don't know what the real truth is, probably a bit of both.
I don't believe that's the case, in fact, I understood that they got the ACO to change the rules in their favour - and then they pulled out.

//j17

4,616 posts

230 months

Thursday 5th October 2023
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Aysedasi2 said:
VladD said:
Reading the other article, it seems that they committed to enter and then the rules changed, which is why they pulled out. Don't know what the real truth is, probably a bit of both.
I don't believe that's the case, in fact, I understood that they got the ACO to change the rules in their favour - and then they pulled out.
Yep, started all "No, we're 100% committed, please change the rules so our road car will fit the regs and be competative.", then went "Oh, actually we've just bought an F1 team and can't afford both programes right now. Sozz.".

RL17

1,335 posts

100 months

Friday 6th October 2023
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//j17 said:
Aysedasi2 said:
VladD said:
Reading the other article, it seems that they committed to enter and then the rules changed, which is why they pulled out. Don't know what the real truth is, probably a bit of both.
I don't believe that's the case, in fact, I understood that they got the ACO to change the rules in their favour - and then they pulled out.
Yep, started all "No, we're 100% committed, please change the rules so our road car will fit the regs and be competative.", then went "Oh, actually we've just bought an F1 team and can't afford both programes right now. Sozz.".

If only they had bought an F1 team! They just committed to all AM name use for 'free' (more like at great cost to AM plus loads of cash/jobs paid to support F1 team and the odd £5m a year to drivers to be ambassadors).

Great to see it on the grid when it happens - not keen on junior driving as its an endurance race and he's not that good at running to the end of a 90 min GP

//j17

4,616 posts

230 months

Friday 6th October 2023
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RL17 said:
Great to see it on the grid when it happens - not keen on junior driving as its an endurance race and he's not that good at running to the end of a 90 min GP
Yep, will be good for Vanwall to have someone to race against! biggrin