Aston Martin denies Alonso’s Valkyrie broke down

Sep.6 (GMM) Aston Martin has dismissed widespread stories in regards to the well being of Fernando Alonso’s new hypercar.

This week, the Silverstone primarily based Formulation 1 crew and its carmaker father or mother proudly boasted that two-time champion Alonso acquired supply of his customized multi-million greenback ‘Valkyrie’ hypercar – “a real F1 automobile for the street”.

The Spaniard, in line with the press launch, drove his new Adrian Newey-designed machine “out of the enduring Monte Carlo Bay Resort”.

However within the hours earlier than the announcement hit journalists’ inboxes, residents and guests within the Principality additionally noticed the Alonso-branded automobile apparently damaged down – after which being hauled away on the again of a tow-truck.

Tobias Gruner, a author for Auto Motor und Sport, mentioned suspecting a mechanical breakdown was comprehensible, because the “advanced electrical system is alleged to sometimes exhibit small glitches”.

Certainly, footage of Alonso’s stationary Valkyrie depicted an Aston Martin clad worker within the cockpit with a laptop computer. “However after we requested, Aston Martin assured us that the arrival and departure on the truck was deliberate and never the results of a breakdown,” mentioned Gruner.

“The automobile was transported to a different location on the request of the brand new proprietor,” he concluded.