Mercedes-AMG prepares the next GT3 and the most radical Black Series yet

A concept that was never just a concept

According to AMG leadership, the TRACK SPORT project was developed from the start as more than a design study. It represents the most direct bridge between customer racing technology and road-legal performance the brand has ever attempted.

The road-going version will act as the homologation model for the successor to the current GT3 race car, a classic strategy in motorsport where road cars enable racing programs. This approach echoes the core DNA of AMG itself. After all, the company founded by Hans Werner Aufrecht and Erhard Melcher has always built road cars inspired directly by racing ambitions.

The next chapter for AMG customer racing

For Mercedes-AMG, the GT3 programme has become one of the pillars of its global motorsport success. The story began with the Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG GT3 in 2011, a machine that quickly proved competitive in endurance racing around the world.

It was followed by the highly successful GT3 introduced in 2016 and updated with the Evo package in 2020. Now a new generation is on the way. To develop it, AMG created a dedicated organisation: Affalterbach Racing GmbH, working alongside AMG Autosport to engineer the next GT3 contender. Prototypes have already been testing extensively since late 2025, with development programmes running at:

• Immendingen

• Bilster Berg

• Portimão

• Monteblanco

The next phase has now begun on the legendary Nürburgring Nordschleife, the ultimate proving ground for any performance machine.

The most extreme Black Series ever

While the GT3 focuses on motorsport, the other half of the project targets something equally demanding: the road. AMG confirms that the future GT Black Series will become the most radical Black Series model ever created. For context, the Black Series badge represents the most extreme road cars AMG builds.

Since 2006, models carrying the name have pushed the boundaries of what a road-legal performance car can be. From the SLK 55 AMG Black Series to the later GT Black Series, each generation brought race-derived engineering closer to everyday drivers.

The new project continues exactly that philosophy. The TRACK SPORT concept acts as the missing link between the pure competition focus of the GT3 and the track-focused but road-legal brutality of the Black Series. Even the colour scheme tells the story:
red highlights represent the future GT3 racer, while neon yellow-green accents identify the upcoming Black Series.

Race DNA at the core of AMG

Motorsport has always been at the heart of AMG. Long before the company became part of the Mercedes-Benz Group, its founders believed that racing technology should influence road cars.

One early example often cited internally is the Mercedes-Benz SLK 55 AMG, whose racing derivatives helped inspire the first Black Series model back in 2006. The idea was simple: take the uncompromising approach of motorsport and bring it as close as possible to public roads. Nearly twenty years later, that philosophy is still alive, perhaps more than ever.

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The interesting part about this announcement is not just the cars themselves, but the strategy behind them. AMG is clearly doubling down on something that many brands are quietly moving away from: hardcore, driver-focused performance machines.

In an era dominated by electrification and digital luxury, projects like the GT3 and the next Black Series represent a very different kind of engineering ambition. They exist for one reason only: absolute performance. And that’s precisely why they matter.

Instead of softening the formula, they are pushing it even further. A new GT3 designed to dominate customer racing. A Black Series that promises to be the most extreme AMG road car ever built.

If AMG delivers on that promise, the next Black Series could easily become one of the defining performance cars of this decade. And judging by the TRACK SPORT concept, the ingredients are already there.