Aston Martin on Wednesday introduced plans to take its V-12-powered Valkyrie hypercar racing in each the FIA World Endurance Championship and IMSA SportsCar Championship.

Aston Martin will construct a Valkyrie that meets LMH laws, which can make the automotive eligible for each the Hypercar class of the World Endurance Championship and GTP class of the SportsCar Championship. These are the highest lessons of their respective collection.

The plan is to begin racing in 2025 with a single automotive in every collection. Aston Martin will compete with its present associate in endurance racing, Coronary heart of Racing. The U.S.-based workforce will assist increase cash for the Seattle Youngsters’s Cardiology Analysis Fund.

The information fulfils a promise Aston Martin first made in 2019, and means the Valkyrie will race for outright victory at prestigious occasions such because the 24 Hours of Daytona and 24 Hours of Le Mans. Aston Martin gained outright at Le Mans in 1959, with Roy Salvadori and Carroll Shelby in an Aston Martin DBR1.

Aston Martin Valkyrie AMR Professional dynamic debut throughout 2022 Formulation One Bahrain Grand Prix

Aston Martin has already accomplished a lot of the event work for the Valkyrie LMH because the Valkyrie AMR Professional observe automotive launched in 2021 was initially supposed to be the LMH race automotive. Work is now underway to hone the aerodynamics and efficiency window to present the automotive parity with rival LMH vehicles, in addition to the fleet of LMDh vehicles which can be additionally eligible for the Hypercar and GTP lessons.

Ferrari, Glickenhaus, Peugeot, and Toyota additionally compete with LMH vehicles, although Aston Martin’s contender would be the just one that started off as a street automotive. The Valkyrie LMH might be a really totally different beast than the street automotive, although. It is going to function a singular chassis that is each longer and wider than the chassis within the street automotive. It is going to retain the street automotive’s 6.5-liter V-12, however function modifications to restrict energy and make sure the engine can final the size of a 24-hour race.

Beginning in 2025, Aston Martin would be the solely automaker competing in Formulation 1 in addition to on the high stage within the World Endurance Championship and SportsCar Championship. Aston Martin additionally plans to retain its present GT racing program. The automaker on Wednesday additionally confirmed it’s creating new GT3 and GT4 race vehicles based mostly on the redesigned Vantage sports activities automotive due later this yr.