Aston Martin Lagonda’s director of special projects David King has hinted that the Aston Martin Valkyrie AMR Pro could compete in the Le Mans 24 Hour-supporting Aston Martin Festival in the future.

The “extreme” version of Aston Martin’s upcoming hypercar, designed by world-renowned Formula One designer Adrian Newey, was revealed at this month’s Geneva Motor Show, and is set to be the British brand’s ultimate track toy.

While it hasn’t been designed to any set of regulations, ruling it out of any form of GTE, or LMP competition, it would be eligible for a race organised and sanctioned by Aston Martin itself.

Speaking with the media at Prodrive last week, King speculated that despite there being no active plan for the Valkyrie to race with a full programme, the car could run in an event like the Aston Martin Festival at Le Mans.

“The Valkyrie AMR Pro isn’t designed to be a race car,” he said. “It’s designed with racing principals in mind, and is set to be the fastest ever car outside of Formula One round a racetrack. But it doesn’t fit with any regulations.

“It’s not an LMP car or anything like that, so there are no direct plans to race it. But, we do have the Aston Martin Festival at Le Mans, the support race, and in that we make the rules. You can race anything you like there as long as it has Aston Martin wings on the front.

“So there might be opportunities for it to race there, or somewhere round the world in the future. At the moment though, it’s not part of our racing plans.”

For clarity, Aston Martin has explained to DSC that this would potentially mean a run, not in this year’s festival, but instead at a 2021 Aston Martin Festival, should the ACO hand the marque the slot in the support bill.

King also went on to say that Aston Martin is still keeping an eye on the ACO and FIA’s decisions regarding the 2020 LMP regulations, which could see cars like the Valkyrie take over from current LMP1 prototypes as the top class.

“It’s no secret that the ACO and FIA are looking at how they might evolve the LMP regulations in the future to make it more affordable and to make it open to hypercars or cars that look like them racing.

“We are keeping a close eye on it, but racing at the top is not in our current plans.”

The Valkyrie AMR Pro, of which just 25 examples will be made and sold, is expected to be delivered to customers in 2020.