NEVER SEEN BEFORE
David King: “Working
at Aston Martin means
you get to be a part
of some truly special
projects, but the AMRB 001 is a dream
- a true once-in-alifetime opportunity.
Of course it’s a huge
engineering challenge,
too, but the gamechanging objectives of
this programme have a
uniquely energising
effect on everyone
involved. We have
world-class people and
facilities at Gaydon.
We’re all motivated
to achieve great
things and take Aston
Martin to the absolute
pinnacle of road car
performance”
The
three men charged with
realising this shared vision
are Adrian Newey,Red
Bull Racing’s Chief Technical Officer and the world’s most successful
F1TM designer, Marek Reichman, Aston Martin EVP and Chief Creative Officer and David
King, VP and Chief Special Operations Officer.
Together they spearhead a formidable alliance.
Reichman and Newey are working closely
on all aspects of the project, striving to ensure
the AM-RB 001 is an unprecedented fusion
of form and function: a car engineered to be
entirely useable and enjoyable as a road car,
but with the capability to perform like no road
car before it on a race track. For those who
crave an even more intensely focused driving
experience, 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.
Built around a lightweight carbon fibre structure, the AM-RB 001 boasts truly radical aerodynamics for unprecedented levels of downforce in a road-legal car. Thanks to the genius
of Newey’s design much of this downforce
is generated through underfloor aerodynamics, leaving Reichman free to craft a pure
yet breathtaking dramat ic form that elegantly
expresses both the AM-RB 001’s cutting-edge
dynamism and the unmistakable essence of
Aston Martin.