A chance encounter between an IMSA official and the team principal for The Heart of Racing at November’s Daytona International Speedway test could become a gift to WeatherTech SportsCar Championship fans.
The assembly outside the gates The garage where the team’s Aston Martin Valkyrie AMR-LMH GTP factory car, Ian James, was located at the time of the team’s Ian James encouraged the team boss to explore the option of returning with the V12 energy hypercar in 2025 to directly to Epace. pipes, without the mandatory European-spec mufflers, to give the Valkyrie a more intense scream when it debuts in Mobil 1’s Twelve Hours of Sebring.
Invited to follow the formal replacement procedure with the IMSA Technical Regulations team, provided that the transition to a non-silent V12 interests the heart of racing and Aston Martin, the suggestion turns out to have been implemented in the Foundation’s Sebring tests Valkyrie. recently.
Asked if he’d followed through on the official’s idea, James stopped short of saying whether the Cosworth-built V12 will or won’t have mufflers installed in GTP configuration, but did tell RACER, “I think our fans will be pleased.”
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