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Aston Martin will be back at the sharp end of the grid at the Le Mans 24 Hours from 2025 as it bids for a first outright victory in the French enduro since 1959. The British manufacturer has reactivated the Valkyrie Le Mans Hypercar project for twin assaults on the World Endurance Championship and the IMSA SportsCar Championship.
It has partnered with North American entrant Heart of Racing, which has run Aston’s GT Daytona machinery in IMSA since its establishment in 2020 and joined the WEC this year, for what at the moment are likely to be one-car assaults in the respective Hypercar and GTP classes of the two championships. Plans for Le Mans 2025 are focused for the time being on the single Valkyrie LMH entered in the full WEC.
Aston’s first attempt to win Le Mans outright since the disastrous AMR-One LMP1 programme of 2011 has been firmed up since Autosport outlined the plans in September. An announcement of the full programme was due to be made on the AMR Technology Campus adjacent
