Mercedes-AMG has determined to reorganize its motorsport division by establishing a brand new subsidiary referred to as Affalterbach Racing GmbH, which can deal with all of AMG’s motorsport actions. On the identical time, Mercedes-AMG plans to amass a stake in companion HWA AG.
Mercedes-AMG has determined to reorganize its motorsport division. To this finish, Mercedes-AMG has established the division Affalterbach Racing GmbH, which shall be liable for all conceptual and technical buyer sport actions of AMG, together with the event of the brand new Mercedes-AMG GT3. The brand new Mercedes-AMG GT3 shall be primarily based on the second-generation Mercedes-AMG GT.
As its title suggests, Affalterbach Racing GmbH may even be primarily based in Affalterbach and can work in shut cooperation with the Mercedes-AMG Motorsport workforce.
Mercedes-AMG is the one producer to not have an official workforce within the GT3 championships, with solely buyer automobiles. From the Mercedes press launch, we perceive that this technique is not going to change.“The primary undertaking to deliver collectively this in depth technical experience is to develop the successor mannequin to the Mercedes-AMG GT3. This new idea is meant to proceed the success story of AMG’s worldwide Buyer Racing Program,” the Mercedes press launch broadcasts.
Mercedes-AMG can be discussing with its conventional companion HWA AG to take over the HWA buyer motorsport division. Each firms have signed a non-binding time period sheet and are within the approval section.
HWA AG was established in 1999 by one of many three founders of AMG, Hans Werner Aufrecht, bearing his initials, and dealt with a part of Mercedes-AMG’s motorsport actions.HWA AG thus managed Mercedes-AMG’s actions in DTM, Method E, Method 2 and Method 3. HWA AG was additionally liable for the manufacturing of the Mercedes-AMG CLK-GTR road model. Most just lately, HWA AG has created a contemporary model of the Mercedes 190 Evo II referred to as the HWA EVO, which shall be produced in a restricted sequence of solely 100 examples.