The Aston Martin Valkyrie Will Have 1115bhp To Play With
As time goes on, we’re getting drip fed more and more information about the Aston Martin Valkyrie - both from Gaydon and from other sources. We’ve been expecting a V12, low weight and a power figure hovering around 1000bhp, but now, a report has emerged claiming to know exactly how much poke this British-built hypercar will have.
Citing an insider source, Road and Track reports that the Valkyrie will have - wait for it - 1115bhp. In a car that apparently weighs 1030kg, that’s a serious output, and if true, this means the Aston has a considerably better power-to-weight ratio than the Mercedes-AMG Project One, which will have 1006bhp and weigh around 1300-1400kg.
The Aston Martin may not have an actual F1 engine like the Mercedes, but it should sound a lot better, with a Cosworth-developed 6.5-litre V12 providing most of the poke. Road and Track’s source reckons the 12-banger will bring around 1000bhp to the party, with the remainder developed via an electric motor powered by an F1-style kinetic energy recovery system (KERS).
The KERS will most likely be developed by technical parter Red Bull Racing, with the F1 team also having a part to play in the fettling of the Ricardo-sourced seven-speed gearbox.
Make no mistake: this thing is going to be utterly bonkers.
Growing up on a diet of World Rally Championship highlights and lengthy Gran Turismo 2 sessions, a life in cars was as good as inevitable for Matt.
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That is one powerful Aston!
Playing with 1115bhp be like:
On a 1115kg car (1:1 Power to Weight ratio)
1115bhp which will sit for 95-100% of it’s lifetime in a garage… Such a waste of horses :(
When u want to make 1:1 ratio, but u just make the horsepower more coz u too lazy to balance them
The benchmark for an extreme performance vehicle should be if it can snap an input shaft to a dynamometer, if you can manage that, you know this is gonna be in the exclusive “dynamometer breakers” the only car ever to achieve that is the Race prepared 1997 TVR Cerbera Speed 12!
I suspect dynos back then were weaker. But the Speed 12 was a ridiculous machine - I’ve heard estimates of 900hp+!
So, an ASTON MARTIN, with a bigger power to weight ratio than the Koenigsegg 1:One, and that’s just the street version? MIND BLOWN
GO BRITISH ENGINEERING!
Middle finger to holy trinity
Yep, but I still prefer the One:1 because of the roaring V8
RIP Perfomante’s lap record :(
*Dat random blue ev
Any idea what the redline on this will be? Given that the 6.3L LaFerrari V12 has 789hp (excludng hybrid) and the 6.5L Lamborghini V12 has maximum 770PS, this thing must either be considerably better or rev even higher (I’d guess 9,500 to 10,000).
Well the 7 litre version of their V12 in the vulcan made 800 and stops short of 8k if i remember correctly. It’s all about how agressively the engine is tuned (compression, overlap, blabla) and with a hypercar you don’t need 100k miles lifespan 😄
Let’s just hope 10k plus rpm for aaaaaall the emotional crisis 😃
Not that it’ll ever get driven…
1000HP NA V12 GIVE IT TO MEEEEE