The Newey engineering wonder that may never race
If Adrian Newey designed a road car... it would be a no-compromise work of extreme performance art. Like the Aston Martin Valkyrie, in fact - DAMIEN SMITH asks if this be the fastest road-legal car ever
Adrian Newey describes the Aston Martin Valkyrie as "an innovative piece of engineering art". That statement says so much about his whole approach to automotive design, whether he's sitting at his famously old-school drawing board sketching out Red Bull's latest Formula 1 car, or something like this: an astonishing piece of design and engineering created with a suitably route-one aim of being the fastest road car ever made.
It's no secret the Valkyrie was born from Christian Horner's desperation to hang on to the employment of his friend, who was being courted heavily by Ferrari at the start of the hybrid era before the Valkyrie project was conceived.
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