More news coming from the Straight4 Studios about new content for its upcoming title, Project Motor Racing. We will race the Aston Martin Vantage GT3. This simulator seems better in every announcement.
When the storm clouds rolled over Silverstone last February and the covers finally slipped off Aston Martin’s latest GT3 weapon, no one was left in any doubt about its intent. Six years after the Vantage GT3, Gaydon delivered a machine that wedded true-and-tested brutish twin-turbo violence to a wind-tunnel carved silhouette as slippery as air.
Thrill. Driven
Under the sculpted hood was the return of the beloved 4L AMG-sourced twin-turbo V8 that sounds like nothing else on the GT3 grid, but everything downstream was freshened up. New restrictor tables peg the output to roughly 535 bhp, but mesa-shaped dyno plots show a fatter torque plateau and cleaner boost response than the 2018-2022 Vantage GT3 thanks to recalibrated wastegates and a revised inlet plenum.
The backbone is still Aston’s bonded-aluminium tub, but every pick-up point has been re-analysed as well. Uprated wishbones clamp to new geometry blocks, while Öhlins four-way dampers add a broader tuning window—a direct ask from customer teams that have to juggle pro and gentleman drivers at the same event.
Aston Martin Performance Technologies (the same skunk works that lays up AMR’s F1 composites) handled the modelling, shaving weight while pushing ballast rearwards for better tyre longevity.
First Blood: Podiums Before Sunrise
The Vantage GT3 isn’t just quicker, it’s the first joint programme between Aston Martin Racing and Aston Martin Performance Technologies (their fancy F1 tech hub). That means shared CFD hours on the same clusters that knead Fernando Alonso’s weapons (soon to be crafted by that smart Newey fella who got his start back in ’81 over in IMSA with the March concern) and composite lay-ups from the same autoclaves that churn out F1 floors.
Aston Martin’s brass made their ambitions clear right from that February day: customer cars on global grids by the end of 2025—something some fella by the name of Max took to heart! That would be possible only if the Vantage GT3 proved its worth on the track.
So how’s it gone?
No DNFs across its first eight endurance outings. A podium at the 24-hour race in Florida. Outright win at the 2024 24 Hours of Spa. Pole and class fastest lap at Nürburgring 24 H Qualifiers, and the trifecta over in Japan in GT300 with pole, fastest lap, and win at the infamous 3H event.
Strap In: Your Debut In Project Motor Racing Awaits
Torque, a pleasant handling window, tyre-friendly chassis (often the longest stints in GT3 racing), and an aero kit that lets even amateurs consider attacking Eau Rouge flat. (Key word here is consider, by the way!)
The 2024 Vantage GT3 is every bit the modern Aston—equal parts bruiser, ballet dancer, and champion in waiting. And in Project Motor Racing, the Aston Martin Vantage GT3 is also the newest GT3 on the grid.
Champagne may be optional, but thunder is always mandatory in an Aston Martin Vantage GT3.
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