News - Aston Martin to build new Valiant sportscar for track-focused driving

UK luxury sportscar manufacturer Aston Martin Aston Martin is to build a road-legal, track-focused version of its Valour sportscar—the Valiant—that has been personally commissioned by its Formula 1 driver Fernando Alonso, reports Motorsport. Aston will produce 38 Valiants, which are to be front-engined. The car also features wheel covers inspired by those used on Aston’s “Muncher” car that raced disastrously at the Le Mans 24 Hours event in 1979. The car is being built by Aston’s bespoke “Q” production division that allows potential owners to individually style the look of their cars. “Valour was a spectacular celebration of Aston Martin's 110th anniversary, and stirred me to create a more extreme, race car inspired version that was track focussed, while also delivering a thrilling drive on-road,” Alonso said in an official Aston press release. The Aston press release also said the Valiant “continues a strong lineage of Aston Martins that deliver true driving intensity both on-road and on-track with the ultimate hypercar, Valkyrie, the brand’s most focused sports car, Vantage and its brother in speed, the Vantage GT3 race car and of course the upcoming mid-engine supercar, Valhalla.”