Aston Martin Vantage GT3 Evo ‘officially’ breaks cover
Debuting at the 2024 Daytona 24 Hours a couple of weeks ago, a version of the new Vantage *almost* went unnoticed. Now revealed in full, it’s the new Vantage GT3 Evo, a development of the marque’s GT racer updated for 2024 and born of new parents, sort of.
This is Aston’s first in-house (of sorts) GT3 project, with Aston Martin Racing collaborating with the newly-minted Aston Martin Performance Technologies.
Suspension and aerodynamics were key points of revision to the GT3 Evo, which is built to new LMGT3 regulations, with a view to improving the car’s window of maximum performance and drivability. Aston’s hope with this car is that it’ll be fast and consistent at any circuit, on any tyre, with any driver.
It succeeds both recently-retired Vantage race variants, the GTE and GT3, with big shoes to fill in terms of successes of the recent past, with Aston Martin a proud repeat class victor in endurance racing with the Vantage over the last decade or so.
The car is set to have a presence across both the American IMSA endurance series, the World Endurance Championship and the Fanatec GT World Challenge. As many as 30 cars are expected to be out racing across the world with partner teams by the end of 2024. It along with the upcoming Valkyrie AMR Hypercar represents a renewed interest from Aston Martin in GT and endurance racing that all fans of the sport are grateful to see.
“The new GT3 is our first opportunity to use AMPT to play a role in leveraging the capabilities, attitude and methodologies of all of Aston Martin’s various nerve centres, which we’ve then combined with the unrivalled GT programme management expertise of AMR,” said Adam Carter, Aston Martin’s Head of Endurance Motorsport.
“The GT racing programme will serve as a development lab that will lead to an increasing transfer of knowledge and approach into future Aston Martin road cars.”
Aston Martin
Vantage
Vantage GT3
Vantage GT3 Evo
WEC 2024
IMSA 2024
LMGT3
