Aston Martin is bringing innovation to the entrance of the Method 1^® grid in 2024 with its most driver-focused Vantage ever. Completely tuned and uniquely geared up to guide the top of motorsport across the Grand Prix^™ circuits of the world, the brand new Vantage is able to take up its main function as an Official FIA Security Automotive of Method 1^®.

A specifically geared up model of the high-performance Vantage will lead all 20 F1^® vehicles on the formation lap for this weekend’s FORMULA 1^® STC SAUDI ARABIAN GRAND PRIX 2024, earlier than taking its place on the exit of the pit lane, able to roar into motion ought to or not it’s required to intervene and management the tempo of the F1^® race. Revealed simply three weeks in the past alongside its ‘Brothers in Velocity’ – the Vantage GT3 racer and AMR24 F1^® challenger – the brand new Vantage is an genuine, unadulterated celebration of pure efficiency, engineered to ship most thrills with most confidence and completely displays probably the most dynamic interval in Aston Martin’s 111-year historical past.

Marco Mattiacci, International Chief Model and Industrial Officer of Aston Martin, mentioned: “Vantage is the very essence of the Aston Martin model, so to see the quickest, most driver-focused Vantage but play such an essential function within the prestigious FIA Method One World Championship™ is a supply of nice satisfaction for us. For model consciousness, there is no such thing as a world, high-octane sporting sequence that may match F1^®. Constructing on the pure synergies between the game and Aston Martin, racing followers won’t solely see the Aston Martin Aramco Method One^® Group AMR24’s on monitor but in addition two of our most fun efficiency fashions, Vantage and the award-winning DBX707.”

Powered by a potent, hand-built 4.0 Twin-Turbo V8 engine, the brand new Vantage is the quickest of its breed, delivering a 30% enhance in energy over the earlier mannequin, making certain the Vantage Security Automotive is fast off the road, each time. Such is the efficiency of the brand new road-going Vantage, it required no engine improve, no adjustments to its cooling system, and no improve in braking efficiency to adapt it for its function because the FIA Security Automotive. It was born for this function.

Bernd Mayländer, FIA Security Automotive Driver, commented: “It’s a pleasure to drive the Aston Martin Vantage. The automobile comes from an unimaginable bloodline and this latest model is the quickest but. My first impressions have been very optimistic as I may instantly really feel the advance in dealing with and, after all, energy. We want a automobile that’s quick and centered so we will reply shortly and safely once we obtain the decision for on-track deployment and Vantage gives that. I’ve loved driving Vantage throughout the previous three seasons and I’m blissful to now be one of many first to drive the brand new Vantage and expertise its full efficiency pedigree on the world’s biggest circuits.”

The brand new Vantage, probably the most sporting mannequin in Aston Martin’s portfolio, has gone via a rigorous course of to turn out to be an Official FIA Security Automotive of Method 1^®. To offer most assault on the race monitor, this distinctive automobile has extra, modified underfloor aerodynamics, together with an prolonged and profiled entrance splitter. For further downforce, a brand new rear wing has been particularly fitted in a bespoke place with a tuned Gurney. The FIA lightbar has additionally acquired new aero-profiling as each millisecond of efficiency is significant whereas main the pack of F1^® vehicles with quickly cooling tires.

Contained in the Vantage Security Automotive sits many techniques to help the driving force and passenger of their roles. The manufacturing seats have been changed by Pole Place Seats to maintain FIA Security Automotive driver, Bernd Mayländer and his passenger firmly in place as they flow into at velocity. A bespoke heart console is fitted with switchgear to work the FIA techniques, together with screens exhibiting dwell lap instances, the monitor positioning of all the vehicles, and a rear-view digicam. Though useful, the Security Automotive continues to be an Aston Martin so the inside has been completed in a novel Lime Essence trim in a nod to the marque’s racing colours.

Roberto Fedeli, Group Chief Know-how Officer of Aston Martin, added: “Each thought, each thought, every bit of expertise, and each stroke of the designer’s pen that went into Vantage can now be loved by the followers of F1^®. This new automobile is already the quickest and most driver-focused Vantage but, which makes it excellent for this distinctive job, so turning it into an Official FIA Security Automotive of Method 1^® was primarily a activity of including all the FIA tools. In fact, it has extra aero not discovered on the street automobile to ensure it will possibly assault the race monitor and showcase the capabilities of our latest ultra-luxury high-performance automobile.”

The Vantage Security Automotive and DBX707 Medical Automotive will make their 2024 debut at this weekend’s FORMULA 1^® STC SAUDI ARABIAN GRAND PRIX. As in earlier years, the vehicles shall be painted in the identical Aston Martin Racing Inexperienced colours because the Aston Martin Aramco Method One^® Group vehicles.