Aston Martin expects almost 30 new Vantage GT3s racing in 2024

There may be “a really sturdy order guide” for the revised model of a automotive that got here on stream in 2019, mentioned Aston Martin head of endurance Adam Carter forward of the official launch of the automotive on Monday timed to coincide with the announcement of the most recent road-going Vantage.

Carter revealed that Aston can have roughly 10 automobiles within the new trim racing by the beginning of the season and that additional examples will likely be delivered to buyer groups because it progresses.

“There will likely be 30 automobiles within the new spec by the top of the yr, not all competing as a result of some groups can have a spare automotive,” he defined.

“However it will likely be within the excessive 20s competing – that’s the projection.”

Aston Martin Vantage GT3

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With regarded to orders for the automotive, Carter added that it “wasn’t attainable to fulfil all of them by the beginning of the season” and that deliveries have been “staggered to get most protection” for the automotive around the globe.

The most recent Aston introduced in October 2023 has already made its race debut: it was on the grid for the Daytona 24 Hours IMSA SportsCar Championship opener final month racing within the GT Daytona courses within the fingers of the Coronary heart of Racing and Magnus Racing groups.

Additional confirmed programmes for the evo Vantage embody the two-car assault on the World Endurance Championship’s new LMGT3 class underneath the HoR and D’station Racing banners and run by the Prodrive/Aston Martin Racing squad.

The Spa 24 Hours-winning Walkenhorst squad, which has swapped to Aston from BMW for 2024, and Comtoyou Racing from Belgium will each compete with the brand new Vantage within the GT World Problem Europe.

Aston Martin Vantage GT3

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Walkenhorst will discipline a automotive within the Professional class of the Endurance Cup phase of the GTWCE with a line-up made up of Aston manufacturing unit drivers, which would be the first assault by the British producer on the premier class of the sequence since 2019.

D’station will even take Aston again to the GT300 class of the Tremendous GT Sequence in Japan for the primary time since 2020.

Carter mentioned that it’s anticipated that the evo Vantage will even seem within the British GT Championship and home sequence in Germany and Italy.

The 30-car determine of Vantage GT3s by the top of the yr will likely be made up of a roughly equal break up of recent and up to date present equipment.

The arrival of the up to date Vantage GT3, together with a brand new model of the GT4 variant, is a part of a renewed dedication to GT racing by Aston Martin alongside its return to the top of sportscar racing with the Valkyrie Le Mans Hypercar in each the WEC and IMSA from 2025.

Aston Martin Vantage GT3

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Carter defined that the launch of a revised road-going Vantage, the adoption of GT3 rules by the WEC and a need to deal with the shortcomings of the unique model of the automotive had pushed a choice made within the autumn of 2022 to develop an evolution model of the GT3.

“It was the proper time to do a brand new automotive,” he mentioned.

The main target throughout the growth undertaken at Prodrive, the producer’s long-term companion in GT racing, and the Aston Martin Efficiency Applied sciences set-up primarily based on the identical campus because the Method 1 staff, was to supply a automotive that’s extra driveable, notably for the newbie race.

The adjustments, described by Carter as “far reaching”, embody all-new aerodynamics and suspension geometry.

Brake cooling has additionally been uprated and the serviceability of the automotive improved.

The listing worth for the most recent automotive, recognized merely because the Vantage GT3 with none evo suffix, is £575,000 much less taxes.