In a recent interview with Motorsport.com, Aston Martin’s vice president David King confirmed they are constructing a new Vantage GTE for the 2018 FIA World Endurance Championship season.

“The new Vantage road car comes out next year, and we’ve committed to GT racing for the foreseeable future. Therefore you can infer there’ll be a new Vantage race car,” said King at the Nurburgring. “The guys are working very hard on it. You’ll find out soon what our plans are.”

Although he was mum on further details about the Vantage’s powertrain, King spoke about rumours of a higher level of Mercedes-AMG involvement in the GTE programme.

“We have a very important strategic relationship with Daimler on the OEM side, and that becomes more significant with the new Vantage,” King added. “That’s giving us access to technology that we need for the future of our road cars. It’s a good partnership, but it doesn’t directly affect what we’re doing in racing.”

Yet. Stay tuned for more information.