IMSA - No Aston Martin Valkyrie at the 24 Hours of Daytona

Aston Martin THOR has decided to skip the 63rd edition of the 24 Hours of Daytona (25-26 January), the opening round of the 2025 IMSA SportsCar Championship season. 

This information was made public this morning, at the same time as the identities of the first two drivers to take to the wheel of the Aston Martin Valkyrie LMH in the World Endurance Championship were revealed. 

Valkyrie will make its IMSA debut in the GTP category at the world famous 12 Hours of Sebring (12-14 March) can we read on the press release. It is therefore at the 1812 km of Qatar (28 February), the inaugural race of the 2025 WEC campaign, that the beautiful British car will make its competitive debut.

The Aston Martin Valkyrie is nearing the end of its test and development programme and has covered more than 12,500km’s to date, including the recent Michelin test after the WEC Bahrain finale at the beginning of November, and last weekend’s IMSA Sanction test at Daytona. The focus for the Aston Martin THOR Team is now very much on honing the Valkyrie’s performance window ahead of homologation for the 2025 season.

Adam Carter, Aston Martin Head of Endurance Motorsport said : “We are reaching a critical juncture in the development of the Aston Martin Valkyrie, and to this point the car has passed all of the objectives and benchmarks we have set for it. Testing is one thing however, going racing quite another and we do not underestimate the formidable line-up of world class competition in the WEC Hypercar class and in IMSA’s GTP category."