Red Bull F1 considering road car to follow Aston Martin Valkyrie

Red Bull Advanced Technologies – the engineering and commercial project arm of the Red Bull Racing Formula One team – is considering a second road-going car developed in-house to follow the new Aston Martin Valkyrie.

Speaking to British publication Autocar, the driving force behind the Aston Martin hypercar's design – renowned F1 aerodynamicist and Red Bull Racing chief technology officer Adrian Newey – explained how experience gathered through the Valkyrie and other projects opens the door to another road car project.

"Red Bull Advanced Technologies was set up for exactly this project, but it has grown and matured, and we’ve got quite a lot of commercial projects on the books now. That makes it easier to take on a road car or a track-biased car that can be put on the road in a tighter timescale, because of the extra experience we’ve gathered.

"So yes, absolutely, we would like to do another vehicle. Exactly what that is and what it’s targeted at is subject to debate. Watch this space is probably the easiest way to put it," he added.

Any future Newey-designed and Red Bull-developed road car wouldn't follow the Valkyrie in wearing Aston Martin badging, as the British car maker's entry into Formula One in 2021 has drawn the curtains on its partnership with Red Bull, upon the Valkyrie line-up's completion.

Instead, Red Bull Advanced Technologies could look to bring development in-house – a possibility addressed by Red Bull Racing F1 team principal Christian Horner, speaking on the official Formula One Beyond the Grid podcast last month.

"Well, who knows. Now that the relationship with Aston [Martin] has finalised in Formula One, it hasn’t concluded with Advanced Technologies yet because there are still projects that outstanding and ongoing," said Horner, when asked when the first Red Bull-badged road car could go on sale.

"But of course the next thing is to look at 'what is the next step in that journey?' Having learnt all those lessons with the Valkyrie, it’d be a great shame not to put them to use in something insane," he added, lowering the tone of his voice through "insane", hinting at something in the pipeline that's even more hardcore than the Valkyrie.

Red Bull Advanced Technologies' second road-car project was slated to be the Aston Martin Valhalla (bottom of story), though the companies' split saw Aston Martin take development in-house, overhauling the Newey-designed AM-RB 003 concept on which the Valhalla was slated to be based, and slotting in an engine built by Red Bull's main Formula One foe, Mercedes-AMG.

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