McLaren MP4-12C GT3 Priced at GBP310,000

McLaren officially presented its new GT3 contender yesterday, while also revealing details of the development programme planned for 2011. Naturally, everybody was expecting two things from the British manufacturer: performances and pricing.The company will build 20 new MP4-12C GT3 cars for privateer teams to race in 2012, each to be priced at GBP310,000 (excluding taxes).

Professional race teams interested in being the first to own and race the new MP4-12C GT3 should register at the following link.

“Having been a customer of GT car manufacturers for many years, I’m delighted we are now able to offer a carbon chassis based GT3 car for £310,000. There will be no hidden costs and we will work as hard as we can to support as many races as we can,” Andrew Kirkaldy, CRS Racing Team Principal and Project Manager for McLaren GT said at the press conference.

“We will spend the 2011 season developing the car with a team from McLaren Racing, McLaren Applied Technologies and McLaren Automotive and make sure this is the most efficient, reliable and easy to drive GT3 car on the grid when we deliver cars to customers next year,” added Kirkaldy.

“The new MP4-12C sports car is the essence of a race car and we used Formula 1 simulation technology to get us ahead in our development programme. We have a unique mix of experience in the McLaren GT team and I expect the 12C GT3 to be the start of our GT racing plans. We have had great success outside of Formula 1, from the US, to France, to Japan and there is no reason why we can’t repeat that success in sports cars after 2012,” said Martin Whitmarsh, McLaren Group CEO.

You can see official details and images, as well as a short video from the press conference in our previous report at the following link.