He Endurance World Cup live a magical moment. After spending several difficult years waiting for the beginning of the era of Hypercarswith the toyota Remaining the only factory brand running, this new WEC season continues its steady growth due to how attractive it is for all brands. In recent years we have seen not only the continuation of Toyota, but also the arrival of the POrsche, Peugeot and Ferrariwhich returned this year to 24 Hours of Le Mans after 58 years of absence with success entered the history books. Here we should add the projects coming in shortly Lamborghini, BMW and Alpine in the queen class of the World Cup, and maybe also Acura. And this large group of manufacturers will be joined by Aston Martin, a brand that officially confirmed this Wednesday its jump to the Hypercar category of the World Endurance Championship starting in 2025, with the aim of achieving victory at the 24 Hours of Le Mans . earlier.
“With the help of Aston Martin’s endurance racing partner, Heart of Racing, from 2025, at least one Valkyrie race car will serve in the Hyperclass class of the FIA World Endurance Championship and the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship,” the British firm said in a statement.
“Performance is the soul of everything we do at Aston Martin, and motor sport is the ultimate expression of this pursuit of excellence,” said Lawrence Stroll, president of Aston Martin in a statement from the Silverstone team.
“We have been present at Le Mans since its inception and, through that glorious effort, we managed to win Le Mans in 1959 and our class 19 times in the last 95 years. Now we are back on the scene of the first successes with the aim of writing a new story with a racing prototype inspired by the fastest production car ever made by Aston Martin,” he concluded.
Will Alonso return to Le Mans?
Fernando Alonso has not closed the door on a possible return to the 24 Hours of Le Mans in the future. He competed in both the 2018 F1 championship and the World Endurance Championship that year and continued in 2019. His time in the WEC could not have been better, as he lifted the world endurance title in that ‘super season’, twice achieved victory in the top category of the 24 Hours of Le Mans.
It is clear that, with the arrival of Aston Martin in the World Endurance Championship, a new avenue for the future opens up for Fernando Alonso with his current team should he wish to return to the WEC at the end of his time in F1. The Asturian said he wants to continue for several years in the ‘Great Circus’ and Aston Martin does not rule out that he wants to continue with the team even in 2026, when a new F1 era will begin with the premiere of new engine regulations and machine. strategies.
Fernando has already made it clear that after F1 he wants to return to the Dakar to win, but the 24 Hours of Le Mans will also be attractive to him, especially because of the large number of brands looking for victory and greater emotion . and uncertainty. which could survive its third experience at Le Mans in the Hypercar class.
Source: La Verdad
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