SILVERSTONE, U.K -- Five years after Adrian Newey first penned his vision of the ultimate road car, the results of those sketches, the Aston Martin Valkyrie, made its first public outing at Silverstone on Saturday.
The 1,160bhp hypercar is a joint project between Red Bull and Aston Martin and will hit the roads later this year as the first examples are delivered to customers. Newey was at the centre of the car's design, resulting in one of the most extreme aerodynamic concepts of any road car anywhere in the world.
Aston Martin's test driver Chris Goodwin was behind the wheel for the demonstration lap, which represented the start of Valkyrie's physical testing.