Aston Martin Racing has set March’s Mobil 1 Twelve Hours of Sebring as the location the place its new Valkyrie GTP mannequin will make its IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship debut.
Though it was hoped the V12-powered prototype would participate in IMSA’s season-opener throughout January’s Rolex 24 At Daytona, the decision has been made to skip the arduous 24-hour race because the Valkyrie’s first aggressive outing in favor of the shorter however extra punishing occasion at Sebring. The Valkyrie’s world racing launch will happen late in February on the FIA World Endurance Championship’s curtain-raiser in Qatar.
Run in partnership with The Coronary heart of Racing, the Valkyrie turned its first laps in an IMSA-sanctioned take a look at final week at Daytona because the sequence’ technical workforce benchmarked vehicles from all 4 WeatherTech Championship courses forward of the upcoming season.
Drivers Roman de Angelis, Ross Gunn, and Alex Riberas took turns behind the wheel of the automobile at Daytona the place the Valkyrie, which conforms to LMH rules, shared the observe with vehicles constructed to LMDh guidelines from Acura, BMW, Lamborghini, and Porsche.
Throughout two days of operating, the Valkyrie produced a finest lap of 1m37.169s, which was 1.461s shy of the main Acura Meyer Shank Racing ARX-06’s 1m35.708s tour of the three.5-mile roval.
