2019 Aston Martin Vantage Gt3 Price
May 04, 2018 at 5:31am ET
Aston Martin has released the first image of the Vantage GT3 race car, which will be offered to customer teams in 2019. The vehicle is based on the Vantage GTE, which is set to make its debut in the FIA World Endurance Championship at Spa-Francorchamps this coming weekend.
The new Vantage GT3 will replace the V12 Vantage GT3, of which the British manufacturer has built a total of 42 examples, selling 37 of them. The new car will be powered by a race-modified version of the production Vantage's 4.0-liter biturbo V8 (replacing its predecessor's V12) and will feature many of the hardcore aerodynamic solutions seen in the Vantage GTE, developed in tandem with the road going car.
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"We are very proud of the heritage we have established as a leading supplier of customer GT cars, with customers racing our cars all around the world," Aston Martin Racing Managing Director, John Gaw, comments. "We told the clients who first purchased our GT3 cars seven years ago, that they would be buying a car that would be capable of winning races for years to come."
Aston Martin has also announced plans for a GT4 version of the Vantage, which will be based on the latest-generation Vantage production model. It will share its V8 engine with the rest of the lineup and will replace the V8 Vantage GT4, currently still being raced by Aston Martin customers in different series around the world.
"Longevity is something that separates us from other manufacturers," Gaw adds. "I expect the new GT3 and GT4 to be just as competitive as the cars they are replacing and to remain so for a similar period of time."
Aston Martin Racing is already taking orders for both the GT3 and GT4 versions of the Vantage, which will be homologated for racing from March 1, 2019. Full technical details should be release soon.
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Friday 4 May, Banbury: Aston Martin is to introduce a new generation of competitive Aston Martin Vantage GT3 and GT4 race cars to customer teams in 2019 that will be based on the critically-acclaimed next generation Vantage road car and the GTE version, set to make its debut in the FIA World Endurance Championship at Spa-Francorchamps this weekend.
The two new cars, designed and built at Aston Martin Racing's headquarters in Banbury, will replace the ultra-successful Aston Martin V12 Vantage GT3 and V8 Vantage GT4, currently raced by customer teams around the world. The outgoing examples represent AMR's most successful racing cars, and they continue to set the standards by winning races and leading championships in GT series around the world 12 years after the first customer car was purchased.
In total, 42 V12 Vantage GT3s were built and of those 37 were sold. The car had proved extraordinarily popular with customers and has a glorious roll of honour that includes three British GT Championships (2013, '15 and '16), the 2017 Blancpain GT Series Endurance Cup ProAM title and the Blancpain GT Asian Series. The GT4, of which 124 were built, has a similar pedigree with British GT Championship wins in 2014 and '15 and the North European GT4 ProAm title in 2016.
Both the new Vantage GT3 and GT4 will feature race-modified versions of the 4.0-litre V8 twin-turbocharged engine used in Aston Martin's next generation sports car. Moreover, the Vantage GT3 will draw heavily on the design logic used in the development of the Vantage GTE, which was developed in tandem with the road car over the past 18 months.
The Vantage GT3 and GT4 will be homologated for racing from the 1st March 2019 and Aston Martin Racing is already taking orders for the cars.
Aston Martin Racing Managing Director John Gaw said: "We are very proud of the heritage we have established as a leading supplier of customer GT cars, with customers racing our cars all around the world. We told the clients who first purchased our GT3 cars seven years ago, that they would be buying a car that would be capable of winning races for years to come. This year we have already proved that with the Aston Martin V12 Vantage GT3's successes in the British GT Championship. That longevity is something that separates us from other manufacturers. I expect the new GT3 and GT4 to be just as competitive as the cars they are replacing and to remain so for a similar period of time."
David King, President, Aston Martin Racing, added: "In motorsport the qualities you're most striving for are a competitive edge, driveability and the durability to deliver upon it. We've been able to deliver this to our customers for more than a decade with our Vantage GT4 and more recently with the V12 Vantage GT3. In the new Vantage GT3 and GT4, we intend to build on those attributes as well as continuing to deliver the best looking cars in the paddock."
2019 Aston Martin Vantage Gt3 Price
Source: https://www.motor1.com/news/241118/aston-martin-vantage-gt3-teased/
