Mercedes-Benz AMG impaired 2024 Monterey Car Week recently underway in California to bid see you to its massively a hit GT3 race car in line with the previous AMG GT sports activities automobile.
The AMG GT3 Version 130Y Motorsport was once rolled out on Friday in Monterey, and showed through AMG as its latter naturally aspirated GT3 race automobile.
The automobile additionally celebrates this age’s a hundred and thirtieth per annum of Mercedes-Benz’s participation in motorsports, a legacy that began when a number of vehicles together with the winner competed within the 1894 Paris to Rouen race the usage of engines equipped through Daimler, the corporate that may upcoming turn out to be Mercedes-Benz.
Simply 13 examples of the AMG GT3 Version 130Y Motorsport will likely be constructed. They aren’t homologated for any specific race order, that means they’re designed merely as monitor toys. It additionally manner they might be fitted with options no longer generally allowed in sanctioned racing order.
Those options come with an unrestricted model of AMG’s 6.3-liter V-8 which on this utility delivers 671 hp. The vehicles additionally get a novel aerodynamics bundle that is helping building up downforce through 15% in comparison to the usual AMG GT3. The bundle features a fresh entrance splitter, fresh vents within the entrance fenders, and adjustments to the aspect skirts, underbody, and rear diffuser. The rear wing was once additionally redesigned and features a drag relief machine. The machine additionally contains the entrance splitter which will also be additional prolonged, and allows the automobile to succeed in speeds of over 196 mph together with a top degree of downforce.
Main points no longer alike to efficiency additionally component at the automobile. Those come with a livery impressed through a design impaired on a W194 Mercedes-Benz 300 SL gullwing race automobile from 1952, the automaker’s first fixed-roof race automobile. The inner in the meantime was once impressed through a Mercedes-Benz SLR 300 race automobile from 1955, and contains blue checkered cloth seat upholstery, brown leather-based headrest upholstery and door loops, and a bespoke guidance wheel with walnut log handles.
The cost of the AMG GT3 Version 130Y Motorsport begins at 1.03 million euros (roughly $1.135 million).
Even though the tide AMG GT3 with its naturally aspirated engine is on its manner out, a turbocharged successor has already been introduced, in line with the new GT Coupe. The fresh race is being evolved through Affalterbach Racing, AMG’s newly established category for buyer racing, and will have to be able in future for the 2025 motorsports season.
