Aston Martin Valkyrie to race at WEC season finale, the 6 Hours of Monza

Aston Martin's Valkyrie hypercar will compete in the 2026 FIA World Endurance Championship season finale — the 6 Hours of Monza — on Sunday, bringing its second racing season to a close, the company announced Thursday.

The Valkyrie, run by Aston Martin's official racing outfit THOR Team, has scored points in every WEC round it has entered this season, building a nine-race consecutive points streak. At the previous round in Barcelona, Spain, three weeks ago, the No. 009 Valkyrie driven by Alex Riberas of Spain and Marco Sørensen of Denmark finished ninth — the car's second consecutive ninth-place result.

Riberas and Sørensen's British teammates Tom Gamble and Harry Tincknell, who share the No. 007 Valkyrie, also contended for a podium finish at Round 6 at Fuji.

The Valkyrie has consistently raised its competitiveness throughout the season. At Fuji in Japan, both Valkyrie entries qualified inside the top six for the first time.

The team's best results of the season came at the 6 Hours of Spa-Francorchamps in Belgium and the Lone Star Le Mans at Circuit of the Americas in Austin, Texas, where the Valkyrie finished fourth at each event.

Aston Martin currently sits sixth in the FIA Hypercar World Endurance Manufacturers' Championship with 58 points, 34 points clear of seventh place. The maximum points available at the Monza finale is 44.

The Valkyrie's racing model — which translates the road-going hypercar into a pure competition machine — was co-developed by Aston Martin and The Heart of Racing, based on the production Valkyrie. It combines a race-optimized carbon fiber chassis with an uprated 6.5-liter V12 engine that revs to 11,000 rpm and produces more than 1,000 horsepower in standard specification. However, under WEC Hypercar and IMSA GTP regulations, maximum output is capped at 500 kilowatts (671 horsepower) in competition.

Ian James, principal of Aston Martin THOR Team, said the second season with the Valkyrie had consistently demonstrated that the car could do more than simply score points. "When the conditions come together, we've shown we can fight at the front of the FIA World Endurance Championship," he said. "Monza is a great stage on which to close out the season. It may be a little cooler than Bahrain would have been, but we want to finish the final race of the season on a high."

Adam Carter, Aston Martin's head of endurance motorsport, said he expected the Valkyrie to show strong pace at the well-known high-speed circuit as it wraps up its second racing season. "Our competitors will be just as keen to end the season on a strong note, so we expect another fierce battle this weekend — but we're ready to embrace that challenge," Carter said.