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http://www.topgear.com/car-news/supercars/aston-martin-and-red-bull-will-build-hypercar
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http://www.topgear.com/car-news/supercars/aston-martin-and-red-bull-will-build-hypercar
You might want to sit down and pay attention to this one. Today, Aston Martin and Red Bull Racing have announced they are to work together to build a ‘ground-breaking’ new Aston*hypercar.
It’s codenamed ‘AM-RB 001’ – how very Bond – and is said to meld Formula One tech to Aston’s “signature sports car design”. In fact, RB boss Christian Horner reckons it will become the ‘ultimate of all road cars’ when it appears, likely in*2018.
Red Bull Racing’s Adrian Newey and Aston’s Marek Reichman are the brains behind the new car, which isn’t a track-only special (like the Vulcan), but one built specifically for the*road.
At this early stage then, details are naturally thin. Aston reckons it will boast Formula One and LMP1-style performance, with the lofty ambition of posting a lap time around Silverstone quicker than today’s crop of F1 cars.*Yikes.
Of course, no engine or drivetrain specifics have been mentioned as yet, but a hybrid could be under consideration. And surely Aston must be thinking about deploying some iteration of that lovely 7.0-litre V12 from the track-only*Vulcan?
We’ll find out soon enough - apparently we’ll see some fruit of their labours before the year is out. It’ll be grippy, no doubt, with Newey’s F1 expertise pivotal to the AM–RB 001’s likely high levels of downforce, and Reichman’s penmanship put to the*extreme.
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