A heavily disguised prototype was filmed during testing at an airfield. The design blends cues from Formula 1, IndyCar, and Le Mans racers. Its engine note strongly suggests a Cosworth naturally aspirated V12. Aston Martin posted a massive pre-tax loss of $666 million last year, and it currently has the worst car on the Formula 1 grid. Despite this, the British company has found the funds to develop and test a new hypercar, seemingly combining elements from Aston Martin’s highest-performing road and race models. Footage of the prototype surfaced on TikTok after it was spotted running at an airfield. It looks like a futuristic Batmobile turned up to eleven. The design reads like an insane mashup of a Formula 1 car, an IndyCar racer, Aston Martin’s Valkyrie Le Mans Hypercar, with a hint of the crazed FZERO from Rodin in New Zealand. Read: Someone Specced The Wildest Valkyrie Ever Then Sold It After One Track Day The front of the vehicle sits low, with a prominent motorsport-inspired wing and arches flowing over the wheels. The driver is positioned deep in the cockpit and surrounded by a halo, much like in an F1 car. As radical as the front appears, the rear half is even more dramatic. Valkyrie Power? Video TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@scubachef1969/video/7... There’s a Le Mans-style shark fin running back to a complex rear wing similar to the Valkyrie AMG-LMR competing in endurance racing. Whatever Aston Martin is cooking up, it’s clearly a track-focused machine that does not appear to comply with the regulations of any current racing series. The soundtrack is also very noteworthy. While the mystery driver doesn’t appear to have been pushing the car to its limits, it sounds very much like the 6.5-liter naturally-aspirated V12 from Cosworth that powers the Valkyrie. Aston Martin is already building customer versions of its Le Mans hypercar, known simply as the Valkyrie LM and capped at just 10 units. Could this vehicle be an even more insane track car that Aston Martin plans to sell in limited numbers? It’s possible. Alternatively, it may be a one-off that Adrian Newey has designed, perhaps intended to smash track records. scubachef1969/TikTok