The Mercedes-AMG GTR Pro Is Coming To Win All The Track Days
You know all those angry-looking Mercedes AMG GT test mules we’ve seen thundering around the Nurburgring for the last year? Now we know what they were for.
Mercedes-AMG has released a single picture of a camo-clad beast on its Facebook page, confirming its name as the ‘AMG GTR Pro’. Details are scarce at this stage, with Mercedes merely saying the car will be “closer to motor racing than ever before”. We are, however, given a reveal date: it’ll be out on 28 November at the LA Auto Show.
We can expect the more power from the 4.0-litre twin-turbo V8 - which develops 577bhp in the standard GTR - a more aggressive suspension setup, and new aero parts. In the teaser image, we can see that the Pro has a new bumper which has sprouted a lower splitter and gurney flaps.
It won’t be the most hardcore road-going AMG GT we’ll ever see, though: AMG boss Tobias Moers has previously hinted that later in the car’s life, a Black Series will join the ranks.
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After the AMGT GTR, please welcome the AMG GTR PRO and just after, the AMG GTR PRO BLACK SERIES and just after again the AMG GTR PRO BLACK SERIES VERY HARDCORE. BMW like names …
they should make a black series tho
AMG GT, AMG GT S, AMG GT Roadster, AMG GT C, AMG GT C Roadster, AMG GT R, AMG GT43 4-Door Coupé, AMG GT53 4-Door Coupé, AMG GT63 4-Door Coupé, AMG GT63s 4-Door Coupé, possibly an AMG GT73 4-Door Coupé, and now this… When will it end Mercedes??
Then we look at the Porsche 911 lineup lol
I’m a huge Mercedes fan and I couldnt agree more. This kind of stuff is gimmicky, but supposedly sells?
I’m just so in love with that camo livery
That is one mad frontend!
Jeremy clarkson was right, he did say than one day mercedes will produce a more powerful gt-r
By definition, track days are not competitions. Please stop calling track days as if they’re competitions. You’re damaging my industry, one insurance provider at a time.
What you don’t see is that track days strive hard to ensure that they’re not timed racing competitions. If they are classed as such, it’s impossible to get insurance for them. If one of my driver-guests has a crash then there is no way to have insurance cover it since it was racing.
Read the law cases of the Porsche owner v. Aviva Insurance in Ontario, Canada, please. Track days are not competitions! You can’t win a track day.
Seriously, you’ve really gotta stop.
You are correct, but I’m pretty sure it’s a joke intended for people that have done track days. There’s always one guy who thinks he beat someone.
Has your org given any thought to banning timing equipment? One of my first events last year a marshal came over and had some words with a couple of my Miata buddies because they were opening discussing their laptimes and who was faster, yadda yadda.
I imagine its just a matter of time before AIMs and mounted phones are barred from HPDEs.
What is the point of this
is there gonna be an AMG GT Air?