One to Buy: Number 8 of 40 2022 Aston Martin Valkyrie AMR Pro
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Spawned from Aston Martin’s collaboration with Red Bull Racing between 2016 and 2020, the limited production Valkyrie is arguably the closest road-going interpretation of a front-running Sports Prototype produced during the modern era.
Based around a carbonfibre tub with aerodynamically-profiled double wishbone torsion bar suspension, the Valkyrie also comes with the highest revving, most powerful normally aspirated engine ever fitted to a road car: a 6.5-litre KERS V12 that pumps out 1160bhp at 10,500rpm.
The rest of the specification was riddled with advanced F1 tech that seemingly took the Valkyrie concept to its absolute limit. However, at the 2018 Geneva Motor Show Aston Martin unveiled an even more extreme track-only variant: the AMR Pro.
Based on a long wheelbase wide track chassis, the AMR Pro also featured a radical aero kit, greater use of super lightweight composite materials, uprated brakes, a more powerful engine unencumbered by the heavy KERS, no air-con or infotainment and custom wheels / tyres.
Weighing an astonishing 150kg less than a standad Valkyrie, the AMR Pro is a faster track weapon than even the latest generation of Le Mans Hypercars.
Only 40 AMR Pro versions of the Valkyrie were produced, one of which is currently being represented by the Private Sales department of RM Sotheby’s.
Located in Dubai, chassis 08’s one and only outing was its factory shakedown at the Bahrain International Cicrcuit where it lapped two seconds quicker than the Toyota GR010 that won the 8 Hour World Endurance Championship race at the circuit that year.
