A ride up Goodwood's famous hillclimb in the Adrian Newey-designed Aston Martin Valkyrie has got us excited for his upcoming Red Bull project
The run was everything you would expect and more: a blur of violent punk-rock insanity. The explosion of acceleration, the ‘we’re never gonna stop; oh yes we are’ braking, the increasing grip from the Michelin road tyres as they began to generate some heat… In a world of grey banality and sensible dullness, thank goodness there’s still a sliver of space for such lunacy as the Valkyrie. Good work,I was in safe hands, of course.
“I’m used to building up speed around a circuit,” he says, “but I’m gradually getting quicker. I want to put on a show. I want people to say: ‘Did you see the Valkyrie go up the hill?’ I don’t want this car to be seen going slowly, so I am trying. We’re on an undulating driveway to a country house in a car that has 1160bhp on road tyres. I’m struggling to get that power down – and there is so much of it.
Dumbreck’s Valkyrie experience has been confined to race tracks, although those who have driven one on the public highway insist that it’s docile in a mundane setting.“You get used to it,” says Dumbreck. “At the end of the day, it is just a car, and you have to remember that. At the same time, you have got to give it respect, because it has so much power – more than the competition cars I’ve raced – and it’s worth so much money.
“It’s arguably the most technically advanced car in the world, and you have a lot of responsibility with it. I get all the fun stuff, but I have that pressure not to make mistakes and to show the best of the car.”
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