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The Aston Martin Valkyrie prototype will be on the grid of the 2025 24 Hours of Le Mans. The ultimate Hypercar is to enter both the FIA World Endurance Championship and the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship.

From 2025, British marque Aston Martin intends to field at least one Valkyrie in partnership with The Heart of Racing team in both the FIA WEC and the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship, which include the three highest regarded international sportscar races: the 24 Hours of Le Mans, Rolex 24 at Daytona and the 12 Hours of Sebring.

<h2>A prototype version of the Valkyrie</h2>

Aston Martin Performance Technologies has begun development of a Valkyrie prototype to meet the specifications in terms of aerodynamics and power required for racing. The goal is to obtain homologation for the FIA WEC Hypercar and IMSA GTP classes for the 2025 season. 
The car&rsquo;s non-hybrid system will feature a normally-aspirated 6.5-litre V12 Cosworth engine packing a mighty 11,000 rpm and 1,000 hp within a race-primed carbon fibre structure. In line with the Hypercar balance of performance rules, the powertrain will be perfected and developed to stand up to the challenges of endurance racing.

Lawrence Stroll, Executive Chairman of Aston Martin Lagonda, said: &ldquo;Performance is the lifeblood of everything that we do at Aston Martin, and motorsport is the ultimate expression of this pursuit of excellence. We have been present at Le Mans since the earliest days, and through those glorious endeavours we succeeded in winning Le Mans in 1959 and our class 19 times over the past 95 years. Now we return to the scene of those first triumphs aiming to write new history with a racing prototype inspired by the fastest production car Aston Martin has ever built.&rdquo;

Founded in 2014 by American businessman Gabe Newell, The Heart of Racing charity aids the Seattle Children&#39;s Cardiology Research Fund. The racing team was set up in 2020 and competes in collaboration with Aston Martin, running the Vantage GT3 in the IMSA GTD class. This year The Heart of Racing team &ndash; Ian James (team manager), Darren Turner, Marco S&oslash;rensen and Roman de Angelis &ndash; won the Rolex 24 at Daytona and finished the 24 Hours of Le Mans in 7th place in the LMGTE Am class with the Aston Martin Vantage GTE.

Ian James, The Heart of Racing Team Principal, said: &ldquo;It&rsquo;s a privilege to be able to bring Aston Martin back to the top of endurance racing with The Heart of Racing. Our team has grown exponentially since we began racing with those famous wings at Daytona in 2020. We understand and are aligned with the ethos of the brand and we have developed our own systems and technologies to extract the maximum performance of the cars we compete with. Our understanding of Valkyrie is strong and we have worked closely with it through our customer activation programmes for two years now. This HoR team has big ambitions in endurance racing and this is absolutely the right time for us to step into the top classes of WEC and IMSA and challenge for overall honours. This is not an easy target, but between our partners and the support of Aston Martin Performance Technologies, it is one we have all the tools and capabilities in place to hit the bullseye with.&rdquo;

Aston Martin joins a host of major manufacturers in the 2025 FIA WEC Hypercar class, namely Ferrari, Toyota, Cadillac, Porsche, Lamborghini, BMW, Peugeot and Alpine.

Aston Martin also announced the construction of its new GT3 and GT4 cars based on the Vantage platform. The cars will comply with existing GT rules, including LMGT3, which will replace LMGTE Am from 2024. They will be available for current and future Aston Martin customer teams.

We look forward to seeing the Aston Martin Valkyrie on track. In the meantime, admire its style in the gallery below.

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Aston Martin to compete in Hypercar with The Heart of Racing

After an initial shakedown in August, Alpine and Signatech have been busy making adjustments to the A424 at the Aragon racetrack.

Alpine has put its new A424 hypercar through a further two days of testing in Spain during which it covered a distance of over 1,500&nbsp;km. The team focused on understanding and fine-tuning the car&rsquo;s systems and adjusting its aerodynamics in a series of short and long runs. Drivers Nicolas Lapierre and Matthieu Vaxiviere gave their impressions and provided precious data and feedback to the engineers.

Long runs in the shape of double stints gave the team an opportunity to test the endurance of the Michelin tyres&nbsp;that will be used in the FIA World Endurance Championship next season. Shorter runs were devoted to adjusting the aerodynamic balance, weight distribution and operation of the hybrid system. The crews also made the most of the two-day period to begin fine-tuning the mechanical setup.

<h2>An endurance test and homologation to come</h2>

Bruno Famin, VP, Alpine Motorsports:&nbsp;The work of the various teams involved in this A424 project continues to progress, and a genuine osmosis is developing between the different actors involved, which is really pleasing. It&#39;s been an intense two days.&nbsp;All the shakedown stages are now behind us&nbsp;and we&#39;ve got down to the nitty-gritty at Aragon, with the fine-tuning of the car&#39;s different systems and the aero work.&nbsp;Things are moving in the right direction, but we&#39;re only at the beginning of the process, and there&#39;s still a tremendous amount to do in all areas. We&#39;re focusing on the upcoming phases, specifically the first endurance test and preparations for homologation.

Philippe Sinault, Alpine Endurance Team Principal:&nbsp;The tests went well. The positives from the tests at Circuit Paul Ricard were confirmed at Motorland and the car continued to display a healthy behaviour. It was a pivotal stage in the programme because, after completing the shakedown tasks, we started to get all the car&#39;s elements to work together: the hybrid system, engine and chassis.&nbsp; Matthieu and Nico put in a series of stints over more than 1,500 km, sometimes even double stints, with no reliability issues, so it was quite satisfying and constructive. During this stage, we could really begin our operating role, with a particular emphasis on understanding the car and getting the right setups. The smooth running of the team was palpable on the human side, which genuinely encouraged discussions ahead of the big challenge ahead. We still have a lot of work ahead of us, but we&#39;re on the right track.

A further period of tuning work is slated for 17&ndash;19 October in Jerez,&nbsp;followed by an endurance test mid-November&nbsp;with a view to homologation further down the line. Before that, the A424 will return to base in Viry-Ch&acirc;tillon where engineers will continue honing the so-called garage phases &ndash; including fire-up &ndash; and analyse the electrical and electronic elements.

Alpine pushing on with A424 development

The FIA World Endurance Championship will return in less than a month for the final round of the season: the Bapco 8 Hours of Bahrain on 2-4 November, with 36 set to compete.

The entry list for the Bapco 8 Hours of Bahrain includes&nbsp;36 cars: 12 Hypercars, 11 LMP2s and&nbsp;13 LMGTE Ams.

As is customary&nbsp;in the FIA&nbsp;WEC, the Rookie Test will be held the day following&nbsp;the race. The full list of&nbsp;participants will be released soon, but we do already know the drivers named to&nbsp;compete as <a href="https://www.24h-lemans.com/en/news/official-fia-wec-rookies-revealed-for-bahrain-test-57856" target="_blank">official rookies in the championship</a>&nbsp;next year.

Several championship crowns will be decided&nbsp;at&nbsp;the Bahrain round, namely the FIA Endurance&nbsp;Hypercar Drivers title, up for grabs between four crews&nbsp;(#8 Toyota, #7&nbsp;Toyota, #50 Ferrari, #51 Ferrari). The FIA&nbsp;Endurance LMP2 Teams and LMP2 Drivers crowns also remain in play, with&nbsp;Team WRT, Inter Europol Competition and&nbsp;United Autosports still contenders.

The&nbsp;Bapco 8 Hours of&nbsp;Bahrain will mark the final appearance of&nbsp;the LMP2 and&nbsp;LMGTE Am classes&nbsp;in the FIA&nbsp;WEC. Beginning next year, the championship will see two classes on the track: Hypercar and&nbsp;GT3.

The 2023 Bapco 8 Hours of Bahrain&nbsp;<a href="https://press.fiawec.com/assets/fileuploads/65/12/6512a2f12be62.pdf" target="_blank">entry list</a>.

FIA WEC – 2023 Bapco 8 Hours of Bahrain entry list

The #25 Algarve Pro Racing Oreca-Gibson scored a second win of the 2023 season with Kyffin Simpson, James Allen and Alex Lynn standing on the top step of the Spa-Francorchamps podium at the end of a race that saw five Safety Cars and three Full Course Yellows.

The #37 COOL Racing Oreca took the LMP2 Pro/Am victory, with Malthe Jakobsen taking the chequered flag in 2nd&nbsp;overall, less than two seconds behind Alex Lynn at the end of the four-hour race. The #83 AF Corse and #34 Racing Team Turkey Orecas were battling for the minor podium places, with Alessio Rovera getting ahead of Louis Del&eacute;traz to put the AF Corse Oreca second in class and third overall. However two post race time penalties saw the #34 Oreca being classified ahead of the #83 Oreca.

COOL Racing also celebrated their second win of the weekend in LMP3 when Marcos Siebert crossed the line at the head of the LMP3 field in the #17 Ligier-Nissan. This gave Siebert, Adrien Chila and Alejandro Garcia an almost unassailable lead of 46 points in the championship standings, with 52 available in the final two races in Portugal next month.

The LMGTE win was secured by the #16 Proton Competition Porsche with Belgian driver Alessio Picariello taking the chequered flag for his first ELMS win at his home track just 0.5 second ahead of the #60 Iron Lynx Porsche driven by Matteo Cairoli.&nbsp;However, the winning car was given a 10-second penalty for not respecting the speed under Full Course Yellow and accelerated too soon, which promoted the #60 Porsche into first place.

The last two rounds of the 2023 European Le Mans Series will take place on the Portim&atilde;o circuit. See you on October 20 for the 4 Hours of Algarve and October 22 for the 4 Hours of Portim&atilde;o. In the meantime, discover the highlights of the 4 Hours of Spa-Francorchamps in the video below.

Race Highlights | 4 Hours of Spa-Francorchamps 2023 | ELMS

ELMS : les principaux faits de course des 4 Heures de Spa-Francorchamps 2023

Algarve Pro Racing win incident packed 4 Hours of Spa-Francorchamps

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<h2>TV</h2>

&bull;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;L&#39;&Eacute;quipe TV channel is broadcasting the 24 Hours of Le Mans in France. It will show the race live, for free, on Saturday 10 June from 9:30 am&nbsp;to 9:00 pm, then from 10:55 pm&nbsp;to 1:30 am&nbsp;in the morning. On Sunday 11 June, it will broadcast the race from 5:00 am&nbsp;to&nbsp;4:00 pm.&nbsp; 
&bull;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;The race, along with Free Practice 1, 2, 3, 4 and the Hyperpole session, will also be shown live, in full, on Eurosport 2.&nbsp;

See the full <a href="http://assets.lemans.org/explorer/pdf/courses/2023/24-heures-du-mans/programme-distribution-tv-24-heures-du-mans-2023.pdf">broadcasting schedule</a>.&nbsp;

<h2>&quot;24H LE MANS TV&quot; APPLICATION</h2>

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Keep track of the standings, pinpoint the whereabouts of your favourite cars and get nerdy with the stats. Or simply watch the race with the official commentary!

<h2>Live timing</h2>

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