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Red Bull Advanced Technologies Takes To The Seas With Alinghi Red Bull Racing
January 31, 2022
Red Bull Advanced Technologies, the high-performance vehicle engineering division of Red Bull Racing, will support the newly formed Alinghi Red Bull Racing America’s Cup team with its engineering and design expertise derived from competing in Formula 1, the world’s fastest development cycle.
Red Bull announced a new partnership with double America’s Cup winners Alinghi in December last year to form Alinghi Red Bull Racing and challenge for sailing’s biggest prize by taking Formula 1 know-how and expertise from the circuit to the sea.
Located at the Red Bull Technology
Campus in Milton Keynes, UK, engineers and designers at Red Bull Advanced
Technologies will work together with Switzerland-based Alinghi Red Bull Racing
on specific areas where it’s believed F1 technology can add performance to the
AC75 Racing Yacht. In particular aerodynamics, simulation, composites and
systems design appear to have many parallels between the two sports and thus
offer opportunities to extract every ounce of performance possible from the
yacht.
Rob Gray, Technical Director, Red
Bull Advanced Technologies, commented: “We are delighted to work
together with Alinghi and their talented group of engineers to help develop the
AC75 Racing Yacht by taking inspiration from the same tools, techniques and
methods used in Formula 1 and applying these to the biggest competition in
international sailing. This new adventure will see the two worlds of
high-performance marine and Formula 1 engineering come together and with
Alinghi, we’re hugely excited to see what we can collectively achieve as a
result.”
Silvio Arrivabene, Co-General Manager
of Design and Construction, Alinghi Red Bull Racing, added: “Traditionally
a design competition arguably even more than a sporting one, the America’s Cup
has in recent times looked at the F1 teams as the expression of the level to
aspire to. To now have the opportunity to strengthen our design process with
specialties brought in from the F1 winning experience is a treat and a
privilege. The team values and spirit we naturally share with the Red Bull
family have created an exciting working environment that we look forward to
exploiting together with Red Bull Advanced Technologies.”
In conjunction with the America’s Cup, Alinghi Red Bull Racing will also field teams in the debut of the Women’s America’s Cup Regatta, as well as in the return of the Youth America’s Cup. Follow the link to visit their website:
Alinghi Red Bull Racing
Building The Sustainable Future Of Endurance Racing
January 25, 2021
Red Bull Advanced Technologies to design concept Hydrogen Class chassis for Le Mans 2024 in partnership with ORECA.
Following confirmation from the Automobile Club de l’Ouest, Red Bull Advanced Technologies is pleased to announce that it is to collaborate on the design of the chassis concept for the next generation of hydrogen-fuelled cars planned for the 2024 edition of the 24 Hours of Le Mans, the world’s most famous endurance race.
The new chassis will be designed in partnership with French racing team and car constructor ORECA, a long-established force in the world of endurance racing.
The collaborative winning bid will see the French company draw on its design and production skills as well as its endurance racing knowledge and experience. In parallel, Red Bull Advanced Technologies, the high-tech external solution division of Red Bull Technology, will bring its Formula 1 expertise in aerodynamics, vehicle dynamics, simulation technology and energy recovery optimisation to a project firmly focused on the sustainable future of endurance racing.
The initial task for the partners will be to undertake and provide a detailed feasibility study for the vehicle concept. As part of that initial phase of development, Red Bull Advanced Technologies and ORECA will be joined by Plastic Omnium, exclusive supplier of the hydrogen fuel tanks set for use in the racing prototypes that will take to some of the world’s most famous tracks in 2024.
Red Bull Advanced Technologies CEO Christian Horner said: “I am delighted that Red Bull Advanced Technologies have been chosen by the ACO along with our partners ORECA to develop the concept of a hydrogen powered endurance racing car for Le Mans. Red Bull Advanced Technologies are well equipped to take on the challenge set by the ACO having access to many of the tools used to design and develop the Red Bull Racing F1 car, along with significant experience on other cutting edge vehicle programs. The Hydrogen Class at Le Mans offers an exciting glimpse into the future of sustainable motorsport and promises both to advance the use of hydrogen in transportation, and also deliver exciting racing.”
Hugues de Chaunac, président du Groupe ORECA added: “We are proud that the Automobile Club de l’Ouest has chosen us to work alongside Red Bull Advanced Technologies on this ambitious, forward-looking project. And we are excited to be working with the other project partners, among them Plastic Omnium and Green GT. Collaboration is vital if we are to succeed in introducing a hydrogen class at the 2024 24 Hours of Le Mans. ORECA enjoys challenges and pioneering change and we can fully express our talents in such an engrossing enterprise. With the LMH and LMDh classes, endurance racing is entering a fascinating new era. From a technical and sporting point of view it will have us on the edge of our seats.”
Commenting on the success of the bid by Red Bull Advanced Technologies and ORECA, Pierre Fillon, president of the Automobile Club de l’Ouest said: “This exciting announcement confirms the appeal of Mission H24 and offers a promising future for zero-carbon motor racing and hydrogen prototypes. Thanks to ORECA, a mainstay of the 24 Hours of Le Mans for many years, and Red Bull Advanced Technologies, a successful motorsport business, the ACO will benefit from extensive endurance racing experience combined with cutting-edge technology to guarantee outstanding performance in its hydrogen class at the 24 Hours of Le Mans in 2024. This partnership confirms that the ACO has made the right decisions for the future of motorsport and underscores our ambition for zero-carbon racing for future generations. We’re delighted to welcome ORECA and Red Bull Advanced Technologies alongside Plastic Omnium, producer of the hydrogen class fuel tank. Having these top-flight automotive firms on board is likely to draw even more interest from car manufacturers, especially those who regularly contribute to our hydrogen working group. We are living in difficult times but the ACO is resolutely pursuing its route towards zero-carbon racing and mobility.”
ACO H2 Le Mans
LEADING THE WAY IN PERFORMANCE VEHICLE TECHNOLOGY
November 30, 2020
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Flight of the Valkyrie
July 13, 2019
Today Silverstone witnessed the first dynamic running of the Aston Martin Valkyrie.
Piloted by Aston Martin high performance test driver Chris Goodwin, the 1,160 bhp hybrid hypercar, liveried with a stunning Red Bull-inspired design, wowed spectators who, until now, have only officially glimpsed the car on static display.
The run on the world-famous Silverstone circuit represents a design collaboration between Adrian Newey, Aston Martin Red Bull Racing’s Chief Technical Officer, and Marek Reichman, Aston Martin’s Chief Creative Officer, and is the result of a technical partnership between Red Bull Advanced Technologies and Aston Martin.
The initial development phase was completed behind closed doors at Red Bull Advanced Technologies’ Milton Keynes facility, co-located with the Aston Martin Red Bull Racing Formula One Team, and at Aston Martin Lagonda’s global headquarters in Gaydon, Warwickshire. On completion of the lap the Aston Martin Valkyrie leaves Silverstone to begin an extensive physical testing programme before the first of the 150 road-going cars are delivered to customers from Q4 2019.
Chris Goodwin said after the drive, “I’ve driven this car around Silverstone for countless hours on the simulator at Red Bull Racing’s HQ, so to finally drive the Aston Martin Valkyrie here today feels exceptionally special. We still have a lot of development work to do but we can now begin to really push the physical testing process and realise the true capabilities of the car.”
The car is a two-seater mid-engine hypercar, powered by a 6.5 litre naturally-aspirated V12 engine. The 150 road-going Aston Martin Valkyries are already sold out, with the first deliveries commencing in Q4 2019.
Adrian Newey, Chief Technical Officer at Aston Martin Red Bull Racing, said, “To see the Aston Martin Valkyrie running today, five years from the first moment I started sketching what it might look like, is very emotional. With the changing visual angles as it drives past and the noise, it is now doing what it is supposed to do, which is to move and be dynamic. It has been an enormous push from the team to get it running here today so this is also a special moment for them.”
Christian Horner, Team Principal for Aston Martin Red Bull Racing, said, “This first view is the result of a collaboration of design and development between Red Bull Advanced Technologies and Aston Martin. The initial vision was to build a hypercar that would deliver the best in technological advancement and high performance and, together, we have achieved this. This public running is just the beginning of a remarkable story for this car.”
Aston Martin Lagonda President & Group CEO Andy Palmer added, “Today is a milestone in Aston Martin’s history and for our industry as a whole. Aston Martin Valkyrie continues to redefine what you and I recognise as a hypercar, possessing unrivalled levels of performance in a package that is technologically beyond anything else. While Chris’ demonstration today was not delivered at full speed, I’m sure the Valkyrie will return to deliver its full potential around this magnificent circuit in the near future.”
Marek Reichman, Aston Martin Executive Vice President and Chief Creative Officer, said, “We have created a truly unique, beautiful rear mid-engined hypercar in Aston Martin Valkyrie that represents the ultimate fusion of art and technology. I am incredibly proud of everybody at Aston Martin and Red Bull Advanced Technologies to have the Aston Martin Valkyrie run for the first time in public at the British GP.”
As the World Endurance Championship (WEC) is set to begin a new hypercar era in 2020, with new regulations designed to allow race-prepared derivatives of the world’s fastest road cars, the forthcoming Aston Martin Valkyrie race car will draw on all the radical design elements of the road car.
The Full Package?
January 24, 2019
Can you improve on perfect? The Red Bull Advanced Technologies-Aston Martin optional extras suggest you can…
With the Red Bull-Aston Martin Valkyrie moving closer to its delivery date, Aston Martin have announced an options list to add extra-spectacular performance on track, or simply extra spectacular everywhere.
For owners wanting to get their road-going Valkyrie flying on the circuit, the AMR Track Performance Pack delivers a range of benefits designed to drop lap times by around eight per cent. It features a new aerodynamic front clam, delivering greater downforce and efficiency, and a second set of all other exterior body panels.
The pack also comes with lightweight titanium brakes, track-focused suspension, a matte black magnesium performance wheel and carbon-fibre aero-disc set.
Customers also have the opportunity to include a suite of personalised pit garage and race suit accessory options to their package – for that ultimate track day and hypercar ownership experience.
Unlike the track-only Valkyrie AMR-Pro specification, a standard Valkyrie can easily be swapped from road to circuit-spec with the Track Performance Pack, which has been designed to be completely interchangeable with the road-legal components it replaces.
Those not planning to take their absolutely-irreplaceable Valkyrie anywhere near an Armco barrier may still add something more to the package, with a range of four Designer Specification themes available, featuring the exclusive Valkyrie colours Slipstream Green, Liquid Petroleum, Ethanol Silver and Maximum Orange.
Beyond this is an Ultimate Personalisation programme, which invites owners to work with the design team to refine their own specification, including personalisation options and exotic materials from the ‘Q by Aston Martin’ range.
The hybrid Valkyrie is a collaborative project designed under the leadership of Adrian Newey by Red Bull Advanced Technologies and Aston Martin.
Created as a genre-defining road-legal hypercar, it exists at the extreme edge of the performance envelope. 150 road-going and 25 track-only units will be built, with delivery to customers scheduled to begin this year.
At the heartbeat of the Valkyrie
December 14, 2018
With the delivery date of the first Aston Martin AM-RB 001 Valkyrie drawing ever closer, Aston Martin this week released performance figures for its mighty Cosworth V12 engine.
Like everything else to do with the Adrian Newey-designed hypercar, they exceed a design specification that was truly spectacular in the first place.
As intended from the outset of the project, the 6.5l engine has a certified peak power output of 1000bhp (which works out at an impressive 153.8 bhp-per-litre) reached at a 10,500rpm, before going on to hit the red line at 11,000 rpm.
Thanks to sophisticated materials, technology and advanced production processes, the engine weighs just 206kg and – with shades of F1 – is a fully-stressed element of the chassis. The engine reaches peak torque of 740Nm at 7,000rpm, though this will be supplemented by a kinetic energy recovery system developed by Rimac, the performance of which will be revealed nearer the delivery date.
While the 65° V12 layout harks back to the Formula One we knew in the early 1990s, the addition of a KERS places it firmly in the hybrid era and ensures it meets all programme targets for emissions compliance.
Designed as a collaboration between Aston Martin and Red Bull Advanced Technologies, the Valkyrie is intended to be the ultimate road-going hypercar and thus, Cosworth set out to create the ultimate road-going V12 to complement it.
Cosworth Technical Director Bruce Wood, commented: “Being asked to create a naturally aspirated V12 engine fit for what will surely be one of the most iconic cars of all time is an immense source of pride for Cosworth.
“Decades in F1 taught us to expect a pretty demanding specification from someone with Adrian Newey’s unsurpassed track record, but when we started talking about specifics of power, weight, emissions compliance and durability combined with ever harder and sometimes conflicting targets, we knew this would be a challenge like no other.
“It’s been a fantastic partnership between Aston Martin, Red Bull and Cosworth with each party bringing a distinct clarity of vision that has proved essential in delivering an internal combustion engine way beyond anything previously seen in a road car application.”
The Cosworth V12 will be used in both the Aston Martin AM-RB 001 Valkyrie, and the track-only Aston Martin AMR Pro derivative. Deliveries of the 150 road cars and 25 track variants are scheduled to begin next year, with the entire production run long-since sold-out.
Advancing the Development Cycle
May 25, 2018
Red Bull Advanced Technologies, the high tech external solutions division of Red Bull Technology, is delighted to announce that it is to collaborate with premium Swiss bike brand BMC Switzerland.
The co-operation between the two performance-led companies will see Red Bull Advanced Technologies bring its track-bred technical capability to bear on bicycles being designed by BMC Switzerland, which since its establishment in 1994 has championed cutting edge design and manufacture of bikes that have been ridden to numerous Tour de France, Team Time Trial and Road World Championship victories.
As such, Red Bull Advanced Technologies will harness the latest developments in race-refined technology, coupled with intelligent Human Performance Analytics, with specific focus on developing integrated electronic technologies to enhance the cycling experience for every bicycle rider. Red Bull Advanced Technologies personnel will also work closely with BMC Switzerland bicycle engineers on future technical solutions.
Christian Horner added: “There are a huge number of parallels between cycling and motor sport, encompassing materials technology, aerodynamics, human performance analytics, as well as increasing use of electric power solutions. This collaboration is an exciting one for Red Bull Advanced Technologies as we believe that together with BMC Switzerland, who is an undoubted pacesetter in the world of cycling, we can deliver some innovative developments in bike technology. It’s a fascinating project that we’re looking forward to working on with BMC Switzerland.”
David Zurcher, CEO of BMC Switzerland, commented: “We are delighted to welcome Red Bull Advanced Technologies to the world of cycling and are very excited to sign a technical collaboration agreement working closely together on future projects. BMC Switzerland’s brand DNA is built on a strong performance and racing heritage. As such, Red Bull Advanced Technologies is a natural partner for us and everyone at BMC is looking forward to starting this powerful relationship.”
BMC Switzerland