We sat down with Aston Martin Executive Chairman Lawrence Stroll to discuss Valkyrie, Vantage Formula 1 and Tobias Moers –
‘I spoke to the previous shareholders a month before their IPO, but they didn’t want to know,’ says Stroll. ‘They didn’t want any disruption or distraction to their IPO plans.’ The Canadian had made contact because he was then the new owner of Racing Point Force India, a Formula 1 team he had brought out of administration in 2018.
‘A year after their IPO, they called me and said: “We’re in the shit here.” I said: “I know, I’ve read the papers, you didn’t put any money back into the business.”’ And they had, in Stroll’s view, made some big mistakes. ‘Pre-IPO, Aston Martin sold 4000 cars; the year of the IPO they sold 6000. Now, 2000 people didn’t wake up and say ,“I have to buy an Aston Martin this year.” What did happen is that they put the company in trouble.
Initially, Stroll planned to invest £400million to right the Aston Martin ship. To date, that figure is already up to £500million and more is still needed if the company is to sell the 10,000 cars per year Stroll has forecast. That split will come from 4000 front-engined sports cars, 4000 SUVs and 2000 mid-engined supercars, including the Valkyrie.
‘Valkyrie was an insane undertaking, to build this car for the road,’ says Stroll. ‘It’s harder to build than an F1 car, and the F1 team has 800 people to build five F1 cars a year. There’s been nothing like it before and there will be nothing like it again.’According to Aston Martin’s 2022 quarter 1 results, 14 Valkyries have been delivered made up of a mix of road and Pro-Am track versions.
Unbeknown to us at the time this was also the last time we’d have time with then CEO Tobias Moers, although rumours were already circulating about his departure. As he walked us through the assembly process, he reinforced Stroll’s point by explaining that the Valkyrie is more complex than an F1 or Le Mans racer because it mixes the technology of those pure racers with the requirements of road car legislation.
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