The Heart of Racing team boss Ian James, right back at the start of the year, threw the idea of Aston Martin’s Valkyrie Le Mans Hypercar notching up a podium before its maiden season was out.
“That would be nice,” he said. It didn’t look very realistic over the first half of THOR’s parallel campaigns with the machine in the World Endurance Championship and the IMSA SportsCar Championship. But achieve it, a team and car that some had been quick to write off, did, in the final round of the latter series at Road Atlanta earlier this month.
