It is exhausting to imagine it has been virtually 5 years for the reason that Aston Martin Valkyrie was first previewed as a concept.

We’ll remind you that the Valkyrie was introduced with assist from Formulation One star Daniel Ricciardo, who on the time was driving for Crimson Bull Racing, a technical accomplice of the hypercar undertaking. Because the reveal Ricciardo has gone on to drive for Renault and has now switched once more to McLaren. Sure, it has been a very long time.

Now think about what the wait should really feel like for the future owners. To ally fears that the undertaking may be canceled, new Aston Martin CEO Tobias Moers has featured in a video despatched out to reservation holders confirming a mid-2021 begin of deliveries. That is shut to 2 years later than initially deliberate.

“I apologize that it is taking somewhat longer than we promised you,” Moers mentioned within the video, a duplicate of which was posted on-line on Tuesday by Road & Track. “However now we’re on the run with Valkyrie. There’s nonetheless a path to go. There’s nonetheless numerous issues to go, however I am assured that we’ll have the automotive out there to you as our clients by mid ’21.”

Creating a hypercar is not any straightforward job, as Moers is nicely conscious of as the previous head of Mercedes-Benz AMG. The One hypercar being developed by AMG was additionally initially due in 2019 however, just like the Valkyrie, will now begin deliveries in 2021. The following battle goes to be epic.

Maybe coming as no shock, Moers additionally mentioned within the video that the Valkyrie is “extra refined than something I noticed in my previous, just lately in my profession, in my complete life.”

Whereas it does not have the F1 engine of the One, the Valkyrie nonetheless boasts a mixture of light-weight carbon-fiber building, trick aerodynamics developed by the Crimson Bull Racing Chief Technical Officer Adrian Newey, and round 1,160 hp generated by a Cosworth-developed 6.5-liter V-12 paired with a KERS-style hybrid system. Valkyrie house owners are in for an actual deal with because the V-12 sounds similar to an F1 engine from the 1990s, thanks partly to its 12-into-1 exhaust design.

There’ll solely be 175 Valkyrie house owners all up, with 150 of them getting the road-going model of the Valkyrie and the remaining 25 getting the even quicker Valkyrie AMR Pro track edition. Sadly, there’ll now not be a devoted racing model for the World Endurance Championship’s new Le Mans Hypercar class, which means we cannot get to see the Valkyrie within the 24 Hours of Le Mans.