2021 Lexus Coupe Pictures.
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Executives from Lexus and Toyota Antagonism Improvement are hopeful of debuting an all-new GT3 automobile by as aboriginal as 2024, in what has been declared as a “finest case state of affairs” by TRD President and accepted administrator David Wilson.
The affluence automaker, which is represented within the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship with a brace of Lexus RC F GT3s fielded by Vasser Sullivan, has reaffirmed its abiding cost to GT3 racing, with the accepted archetypal set for at atomic the abutting two seasons.
Nevertheless, with no accepted meeting automobile in Lexus’ calendar that’s accounted to be ill-fitted to the platform, Wilson mentioned they’re cat-and-mouse on a brand new archetypal to function the bottom of a “floor up” GT3 automobile.
“We’ve fabricated no abstruse or acknowledgment for the reality that the automobile we’re antagonism applicable now… The botheration is that from a apple-pie space of paper, it wasn’t conceived as a GT3 automobile,” Wilson instructed Sportscar365.
“It was a sports activities automobile and approach too backward bottomward the band addition mentioned, ‘We should always chase it.’
“Man it’s been a journey. I’m appreciative of the reality that we settle for a aggressive chase automobile nevertheless it’s not a precise acceptable GT3 automobile and that’s aloof a truth.”
The RC F GT3 is homologated by the 2026 season, which Wilson mentioned permits Lexus time to delay for what may very well be abutting within the meeting pipeline.
He mentioned the RC F affairs has moreover served as a acceptable acquirements acquaintance in its assault into
