2018 Aston Martin Racing Vantage GTE Revealed
The new Aston Martin Racing has been revealed the new model as Vantage GTE, not long after the new Vantage road car made the sports car scene buzz. This total Brute of a new track auto is bound for the 2018 World Endurance Championship, to such an extent that 13,000 km of testing has official finished.
As the name recommends, the new Vantage will contend in the GTE Pro segment of the WEC season, and has a hard demonstration to trail its V8 Vantage GTE antecedent. The whole thing has been designed in parallel with the road car, in-house at Aston Martin Racing’s HQ in Banbury. The chassis is based on the aluminium frame from the road car, while the Carbon Fibre body is a mad amplification of the regular Vantage’s curves. As you’d expect from a fire-breathing GTE racer, details include a jutting front splitter, enormous bonnet air vents and a rear wing so big you could sleep on it. The ‘wow’ factor comes from the truly gargantuan carbonfibre rear splitter that sticks out more than a foot from the back of the car.
Specfications
Gladly. The GTE uses the 4.0-litre turbocharged V8 from the new Vantage road car, with power rated at more than 530bhp and more than 516lb ft of torque. Drive is sent to the rear wheels via an Alcon multi-plate racing clutch, Xtrac six-speed sequential ‘box, carbonfibre propshaft and limited-slip diff. It should handle, too. Along with the huge amount of downforce from all of those fins, wings and dive planes, the Vantage GTE uses Öhlins suspension and wears lightweight forged magnesium alloys wrapped in bespoke Michelin rubber. Last years AMR drivers Darren Turner and Jonny Adam have been kept, as have Nicki Thiim and Marco Sørensen. Formula E racer and F1 test driver Alex Lynn has been hired.The first leg of the 2018 WEC season is the 6 Hours of Spa-Francorchamps in May 2018.
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