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Aston Martin announce WEC Hypercar drivers and ensure absence from 2025 Daytona 24
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Aston Martin announce WEC Hypercar drivers and ensure absence from 2025 Daytona 24

By Miles Cooper November 21, 2024
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Aston Martin has revealed the primary drivers for its 2025 World Endurance Championship marketing campaign similtaneously confirming the Valkyrie AMR-LMH will miss January’s Daytona 24 Hours.

Harry Tincknell and Alex Riberas have been named within the two Hypercar class entries by Aston Martin and The Coronary heart of Racing manufacturing unit crew that can signify the British marque in each the WEC and the IMSA SportsCar Championship subsequent 12 months.

Two-time Le Mans 24 Hours class winner Tincknell joins the Aston line-up after taking part in a key position within the growth of the Valkyrie Le Mans Hypercar in his capability as a member of the Multimatic Motorsports driver roster.

Canadian-headquartered Multimatic co-developed the AMR-LMH and is a service-provider for a crew that will probably be often known as Aston Martin THOR.

Manufacturing facility driver Riberas is shifting over from THOR’s Aston Martin GT squad, which he joined in 2020 and has since taken 4 GT Daytona Professional wins in IMSA and one in WEC LMGT3.

Aston introduced the primary drivers for the Valkyrie on Thursday forward of the scheduled reveal of the 2025 WEC entry listing on Friday.

Aston Martin announce WEC Hypercar drivers and ensure absence from 2025 Daytona 24

#99 Proton Competitors Porsche 963: Harry Tincknell

Picture by: Shameem Fahath

Groups are required to appoint not less than one title per automobile on the submission of their entries.

Tincknell, who claimed his second Le Mans victory driving a works Aston Martin Vantage GTE in GTE Professional in 2020, described the prospect to return to the producer to race the Valkyrie as “an absolute honour” and “a pinch-yourself second”.

“I consider the automobile will probably be a agency fan favorite with its wonderful seems and the unimaginable sound of the V12 engine,” stated the 33-year-old Briton.

“It’s been thrilling to be a part of the preliminary growth testing, and the DNA of the automobile feels sturdy.”

Riberas, who first raced for the nascent THOR squad below the Workforce Seattle banner in IMSA in 2014, stated that it’s “an excellent honour to be chosen as a driver for such an thrilling undertaking”.

“I’ve been a part of THOR for the previous 10 years and to have the ability to proceed my journey with them, now on the pinnacle of endurance racing, is solely a dream come true,” continued the 31-year-old Spaniard.

#27 Heart of Racing Team Aston Martin Vantage AMR LMGT3: Ian James, Daniel Mancinelli, Alex Riberas

#27 Coronary heart of Racing Workforce Aston Martin Vantage AMR LMGT3: Ian James, Daniel Mancinelli, Alex Riberas

Picture by: JEP / Motorsport Photographs

Aston Martin is reviving the race numbers #007 and #009, which marks the usage of its vehicles by fictional double-agent James Bond, for the Valkyrie WEC marketing campaign.

Aston gained the GT1 class at Le Mans with a manufacturing unit DBR9 bearing #009 in 2007 and 2008. Tincknell is listed in #007 and Riberas in #009.

Aston Martin’s announcement doesn’t go into element on the choice to overlook Daytona.

It states solely that the Valkyrie AMR-LMH will make its IMSA debut in March on the Sebring 12 Hours, spherical two of the collection, reasonably than within the Daytona season-opener.

Aston talked a few Daytona 2024 debut for the racing Valkyrie on the launch of the programme in October 2023, however the rhetoric modified in the summertime and it refused to verify that it could be current on the opening spherical of the IMSA collection.

A change within the WEC laws is known to be behind its reticence to verify its participation at Daytona and its eventual resolution to not give the automobile its debut in a 24-hour race.

Aston and THOR initially deliberate to discipline solo entries in each WEC and IMSA, however was compelled to increase its world championship assault after a brand new rule mandating two-car entries from producers competing within the Hypercar class was confirmed at Le Mans in June.

Aston Martin Valkyrie AMR-LMH

Aston Martin Valkyrie AMR-LMH

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It said as just lately as this month’s 2024 WEC finale that the homologation of the AMR-LMH could be accomplished in time to contest Daytona on 25-26 January, whereas drawing again from a dedication to participate.

The id of the drivers who will kind the rest of the THOR line-up throughout its three entries in WEC and IMSA is unclear.

The crew and Aston have pressured that their search would start inside their very own twin rosters of drivers.

To date they has admitted that the Valkyrie has been pushed by Tincknell and Riberas, Marco Sorensen, Mario Farnbacher, Ross Gunn and Romain De Angelis, in addition to by Aston stalwart Darren Turner and Stefan Mucke, who was previously with the marque, within the early shakedown section.

It is usually believed that additional drivers have taken half in testing of the Valkyrie since its first run in July, throughout which period it has accomplished 12,500km (7,750 miles).

THOR crew principal Ian James has hinted that there could possibly be vital crossover between the line-ups for the 2 collection, which solely conflict as soon as, in Could with Spa and Laguna Seca, over the course of 2025.

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