BERLIN: Mercedes-AMG has revealed its new GT3 race car ahead of its official world premiere at next week’s Geneva Motor Show. Developed to comply with the FIA’s GT3 customer racing formula, the new AMG GT3 will be available to buyers in time for the 2016 series.
On the styling front, the Mercedes-AMG GT3 gets a significantly wider body and track, creating a muscular and hunkered-down look. There’s a deeper and subtly re-shaped grille up front, flanked by flared guards and a full complement of aero components. A trio of vents line the top of the view, with a large main opening in the bonnet flanked by a row of gills in each of the front guards.
The requisite GT racing wing features at the rear, and there’s a stripped-out and caged-up racing fit-out in the cabin. Power is provided not by the regular AMG GT’s 375kW 4.0 litre biturbo V8, but rather the same big 6.3 litre V8 that powered the earlier SLS AMG GT3 racer.
The big high-revving V8 is matched to a six-speed sequential racing transmission, mounted in a transaxle configuration on the rear axle – just as the road-going AMG GT’s shifter is.
