Red Bull Wants to Humiliate the Aston Martin Valkyrie

The Red Bull Racing Formula 1 team will showcase a powerful Hypercar in 2024, exclusively for track use.

It’s the story of a beautiful relationship on paper that turned into a war. With all the English hypocrisy in the background. Red Bull will never publicly admit it, but the energy drink manufacturer, present with its own team in Formula 1, has a score to settle. Even more, it wants to avenge an insult.

It all began when Aston Martin, in trouble, sought to re-establish itself by becoming a sponsor of Red Bull Racing in F1. This was the late 2010s. The romance was swift, and Adrian Newey, the most brilliant engineer in Formula 1 history, designed a badge-bearing Aston Martin Hypercar. His greatest wish was to enter it in the 24 Hours of Le Mans, a race that fascinated him. This car is called the Valkyrie.

But very quickly, the love story faded, and Aston Martin retained the rights to Valkyrie, clarifying it did not have the means to launch such a project in competition. Red Bull Racing and Newey were then called back to their primary priorities: dominating the F1 grid with their star driver, Max Verstappen. Three world championship titles followed.

However, the resentment did not disappear. At Red Bull, they also dislike that Aston Martin has started to capture the spotlight in Formula 1 with its own team. So, a crazy project emerged: building a new Valkyrie (which obviously would not carry that name), to remind everyone that Aston Martin doesn’t have the talent for creating the best hypercar in the world.

This one, called RB17, is a track-focused Hypercar that is almost ready and will be unveiled in 2024. Estimated to weigh 900 kg and produce 1250 horsepower (via a turbo hybrid V8), it promises the perfect balance of weight and power, aerodynamic load, and top speed.

Red Bull is considering a limited production of 50 units, priced at around 5 million pounds sterling excluding taxes, or approximately 6 million euros before taxes. The cars would be assembled directly in the F1 team’s workshops in Milton Keynes, England.

It remains to be seen whether Red Bull, Adrian Newey, and Max Verstappen will take this machine to race at Le Mans. The likelihood is high, as everyone desires it.

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