Why Is Everybody Building All These GT3 Race Cars?
In the Mobil 1 Twelve Hours of Sebring, there were GT3 cars from
Porsche, Audi, Lamborghini, Ferrari, BMW, Aston Martin, and a lone Dodge
Viper. If you are thinking that some of these cars might automatically
be faster than others, you’d be right, but part of the FIA sanction is
balancing performance, usually through weight and the size of engine
intakes. If you drove your Viper to Sebring, your car had considerably
more horsepower than the ViperExchange.com Viper on the track.
There’s also an accepted price range for GT3 cars – about $500,000
per car, plus maybe $350,000 in spares. Depending on the company – and
this is one reason why customers might choose one manufacturer over
another – they might throw in an engineer and a factory driver for some
races.
Bottom line, then, is the bottom line: You can get started for under
$1 million in GT3 racing, which some people consider a genuine bargain.
We’re happy for those people.
(TheDrive.com)
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