IT SEEMS LIKE A POTENTIAL ASTON Martin Le Mans programme comes around as regularly as the seasons these days but, almost exactly a year after the British brand shelved plans to take its Valkyrie to La Sarthe, it could well be back on the cards again.
The Gaydon firm, which hasn’t competed in the top class at Le Mans since 2010 – and even then it was in the suboptimal petrol division against the turbo diesels (and yes, we’re ignoring the mess that was the 2011 AMR-One…) – was due to be one of the first brands to commit to the ACO’s new Hypercar rules, using its Valkyrie as a base. But those plans were shut down by Aston’s previous owners last February as Aston geared up for its Formula 1 return instead.