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McLaren today on Friday its plans to bring back the McLaren name to GT sports cars racing.
From 2012, McLaren and CRS Racing will supply and support a limited number of GT3 racing cars based on the McLaren MP4-12C high-performance sports car for European-based privateers.
Fifteen years since the McLaren F1 GTR famously won the world-famous 24 Heures du Mans on its debut, McLaren and CRS Racing, a successful and experienced UK-based racing team, have begun development work aimed at turning the 12C road car into a race-winning GT3 sports car.
CRS Racing will build, sell and support the 12C GT3 cars in close collaboration with McLaren.
As part of the development programme, McLaren and CRS Racing will compete at a limited number of European GT races in 2011.
With the 12C’s revolutionary lightweight one-piece moulded carbon chassis (the ‘MonoCell’), its high levels of downforce and aerodynamic performance, and its focus on form and function, the 12C should prove to be a great platform on which to develop a racing car, as well as visually setting pulses racing at European race tracks.
Further details about the McLaren 12C GT3 racing car programme will be announced in 2011.
Initial plans are for a limited run of 12Cs developed for the 2012 European FIA GT3 Series, but, as with McLaren Automotive’s road car business, conservative growth and expansion will be considered.
McLaren today on Friday its plans to bring back the McLaren name to GT sports cars racing.
From 2012, McLaren and CRS Racing will supply and support a limited number of GT3 racing cars based on the McLaren MP4-12C high-performance sports car for European-based privateers.
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| CGI image of the McLaren MP4-12C GT3 car (Image: McLaren) |
Fifteen years since the McLaren F1 GTR famously won the world-famous 24 Heures du Mans on its debut, McLaren and CRS Racing, a successful and experienced UK-based racing team, have begun development work aimed at turning the 12C road car into a race-winning GT3 sports car.
CRS Racing will build, sell and support the 12C GT3 cars in close collaboration with McLaren.
As part of the development programme, McLaren and CRS Racing will compete at a limited number of European GT races in 2011.
With the 12C’s revolutionary lightweight one-piece moulded carbon chassis (the ‘MonoCell’), its high levels of downforce and aerodynamic performance, and its focus on form and function, the 12C should prove to be a great platform on which to develop a racing car, as well as visually setting pulses racing at European race tracks.
Further details about the McLaren 12C GT3 racing car programme will be announced in 2011.
Initial plans are for a limited run of 12Cs developed for the 2012 European FIA GT3 Series, but, as with McLaren Automotive’s road car business, conservative growth and expansion will be considered.