Watch Formula 1's Nico Hulkenberg Push The Aston Martin Valkyrie AMR PRO To 11,000 RPM At Silverstone

In June last year, British automaker Aston Martin revealed an even more ridiculous take on its already bonkers Valkyrie hypercar. Called the Valkyrie AMR Pro, this track-only special edition is intended to give buyers an experience that is as close to driving an F1 car as possible. For the "regular" Valkyrie, Aston Martin predicted around 4,000 pounds of downforce. For the AMR Pro, that figure is said to have doubled. Combine such immense grip with a 6.5-liter naturally aspirated Cosworth V12 that revs to 11,000 rpm and produces around 1,000 horsepower, and you have a machine that even the world's most skillful billionaires probably won't be able to fully exploit.

Most of us will never get to experience this, so hop on board as we go for a couple of laps around the Silverstone circuit with F1 driver Nico Hulkenberg behind the wheel. Volume up.

Of course, we can't fully appreciate the experience as we can't feel all the vibrations and G forces, but even through the medium of a screen, you can see that the AMR Pro is an absolutely brutal machine. Both occupants are bouncing over the smallest of bumps, and the gearchanges are like thunderbolts. Through Copse Corner, one of the quickest turns on the track, the car registers over 2.5 G, and Hulkenberg thinks that figure may even be around 3 G in braking. Those brakes are especially noteworthy as they are carbon-on-carbon - no ceramic mixed in here. Even the Michelin tires used are those that Le Mans Prototype racers are fitted with just to cope with the stresses and strains of high-speed downforce that can cause regular tires to deform and explode.