Aston Martin and Red Bull Racing
has recently revealed their ground-breaking hypercar codenamed AM-RB 001. The
three men in-charge are Adrian Newey, red Bull Racing's Chief Technical Officer
and one of the world's most successful F1 designer, Marek Reichman, Aston
Martin EVP and Chief Creative Officer and David King, VP and Chief Special
Operations Officer.
The AM-RB 001 is designed as a
car engineered to be entirely useable and enjoyable as a road car, but with the
capability on a race track. A track-only AM-RB 001 is also in development, the
projected performance of which is in line with that of today's LMP1 Le mans
sports prototypes.
According to Aston Martin, the
AM-RB 001 will be built around a lightweight carbon fibre structure and will
boast radical aerodynamics for unprecedented levels of downforce in a road.legal
car. Mich of the downforce is generated through underfloor aerodynamics.
The car will be built by David
King and his team at Gaydon, in the purpose-built facility created for Aston
Martin's original hypercar, The one-77. Its heart is a new, mid-mounted,
high-revving, to achieave a 1:1 power-to-weight ratio; 1bhp per kilo of weight.
The AM-RB 001 s suspension system
will feature innovative technology. Likewise, the transmission is a clean-sheet
design conceived by Newey and developed by Red Bull Advanced Technologies.
For the task engineering, the
AM-RB 001 will be shared between Q by Aston Martin Advanced Technologies,with
production taking place at Aston Martin's Gaydon facility. Total volume will be
between 99 and 150 road cars inclusive of all remaining prototype and 25
track-only version, with first deliveries commencing in 2018
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