While most of the focus in endurance racing has been on the new LMDh offerings, that’s certainly not to say there’s no new developments in the world of GT4 competition, with the McLaren Artura and new BMW M4 set to race across the globe in 2023.
McLaren’s previous model, the 570S, was released in 2016, with the British manufacturer selling more than 180 examples, the last being produced at the start of this year.
Despite having achieved considerable success over a six-year period, culminating in last year’s GT4 European Series crown, the age of the model was beginning to show, according to McLaren Automotive’s director of motorsport Ian Morgan.
“The 570S was done as a way of getting us into GT4 racing and I think it’s been very successful in achieving that, but we’ve learned a lot from the limitations of the car,” he admits. “We kept the initial car very much based around road car systems but then were not able
