{"id":75009,"date":"2024-07-30T09:03:44","date_gmt":"2024-07-30T13:03:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/autosector.com\/?p=75009"},"modified":"2024-07-30T09:03:44","modified_gmt":"2024-07-30T13:03:44","slug":"1143962_amg-launches-separate-company-for-customer-racing-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/?p=75009","title":{"rendered":"AMG launches separate company for customer racing program"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><strong>Mercedes-Benz launched another new division dubbed\u00a0Affalterbach Racing GmbH<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Affalterbach Racing GmbH will develop a customer racing business and race cars<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Mercedes-Benz AMG also plans to acquire HWA<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Growing interest in customer racing has led to Mercedes-Benz AMG launching a standalone company to handle all \u201cconceptual and technical\u201d aspects of its expanding <strong>customer racing business<\/strong>. The business at present already has a diverse offering, including race cars built to GT2, GT3, and GT4 regulations.<\/p>\n<p>The new company, <strong>Affalterbach Racing GmbH<\/strong>, is based at AMG&#8217;s Affalterbach headquarters in Germany, and one of its first tasks is to <strong>develop a new GT3 race car<\/strong> based on the latest <a href=\"https:\/\/www.motorauthority.com\/news\/1141409_2024-mercedes-benz-amg-gt-63-review\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">AMG GT sports car<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.motorauthority.com\/news\/1123722_mercedes-amg-rolls-out-a-sharper-gt3-race-car-for-2020-motorsport-season\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mercedes&#8217; current GT3<\/a> is based on the former AMG GT.<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"static-marker-video-player-primis\"\/><\/p>\n<p>AMG said the more specialist and race car-focused knowledge of Affalterbach Racing will be tapped to help <strong>develop future AMG road cars<\/strong>, quickly and efficiently.<\/p>\n<p>AMG will still maintain the current AMG Motorsport division, which will continue to be responsible for the overall organization of the global motorsportrs program at Mercedes-Benz, including Formula 1.<\/p>\n<div class=\"image_wrapper first_wrapper\" readability=\"7\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" name=\"tccimg_100937587_m\" title=\"Teaser for Mercedes-Benz AMG GT3 race car being developed by Affalterbach Racing\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAD\/ACwAAAAAAQABAAACADs=\" alt=\"Teaser for Mercedes-Benz AMG GT3 race car being developed by Affalterbach Racing\" width=\"640\" height=\"392\" class=\"first_image lazy\" data-width=\"1024\" data-height=\"627\" data-url=\"https:\/\/images.hgmsites.net\/lrg\/teaser-for-mercedes-benz-amg-gt3-race-car-being-developed-by-affalterbach-racing_100937587_l.webp\" data-src-h=\"https:\/\/images.hgmsites.net\/hug\/teaser-for-mercedes-benz-amg-gt3-race-car-being-developed-by-affalterbach-racing_100937587_h.webp\" data-src=\"https:\/\/images.hgmsites.net\/lrg\/teaser-for-mercedes-benz-amg-gt3-race-car-being-developed-by-affalterbach-racing_100937587_l.webp\" data-src-l=\"https:\/\/images.hgmsites.net\/lrg\/teaser-for-mercedes-benz-amg-gt3-race-car-being-developed-by-affalterbach-racing_100937587_l.webp\" data-src-m=\"https:\/\/images.hgmsites.net\/med\/teaser-for-mercedes-benz-amg-gt3-race-car-being-developed-by-affalterbach-racing_100937587_m.webp\" data-src-s=\"https:\/\/images.hgmsites.net\/sml\/teaser-for-mercedes-benz-amg-gt3-race-car-being-developed-by-affalterbach-racing_100937587_s.webp\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Teaser for Mercedes-Benz AMG GT3 race car being developed by Affalterbach Racing<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Separately, AMG plans to <strong>acquire the customer racing business of HWA<\/strong>. For those readers unfamiliar with HWA, it\u2019s the German motorsports and engineering skunk works formed in 1998 by AMG co-founder Hans Werner Aufrecht. That year it became responsible for AMG\u2019s motorsports program after Mercedes-Benz took AMG in-house.<\/p>\n<p>Following the sale of its customer racing program to AMG, a deal which is yet to be fully approved, HWA will focus on its other programs like developing racing engines and even limited-production road cars like the recent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.motorauthority.com\/news\/1141852_hwa-provides-first-look-at-modern-mercedes-190-e-evo-ii\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Evo 190 E restomod project<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mercedes-Benz launched another new division dubbed\u00a0Affalterbach Racing GmbH Affalterbach Racing GmbH will develop a customer racing business and race cars Mercedes-Benz AMG also plans to acquire HWA Growing interest in customer racing has led to Mercedes-Benz AMG launching a standalone company to handle all \u201cconceptual and technical\u201d aspects of its expanding customer racing business. 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