The Aston Martin Valkyrie is the most extreme car to legally wear license plates.
When, in 2016, Aston Martin and Red Bull Racing announced they were going to jointly create a hypercar around the vision of Formula 1 designer Adrian Newey the promise was it would offer the performance of a sharp-end racecar. This raised an obvious question. Who, if anybody, would be able to both afford and drive such a thing?
There are many technical highlights beyond the mighty V12. The Valkyrie has active suspension which can both vary damping force at each corner, but also adjust the car’s height. Selecting the chassis’s Track mode lowers the car to help improve downforce, which is further managed by active wing elements front and rear, plus another couple in the huge diffuser tunnels.
The view out is more race car than road car. The tiny canopy windscreen wraps around like a visor; Aston had to create a special mechanism for the single wiper blade to allow it to follow the screen’s curved contours. The dashboard has three display screens - small ones on each side for the rear-view cameras and a slightly larger one offset to the right, Aston’s first touchscreen interface.
The Valkyrie’s brakes are correspondingly good at canceling the huge speeds once biting hard, although the demonstrator’s pedal had a slightly dead feeling at the top of its travel. It could also be felt to be softening during longer and harder applications, although the rate or retardation didn’t diminish - even at the end of the kilometer-long start-finish straight where the Valkyrie had to go from 185mph to about 40mph for the very tight Turn One.
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