Ford Australia is gearing as much as stage what it claims would be the first in-person reveal of the seventh-generation Mustang in racing type anyplace on the earth.
The brand new Mustang GT-based Supercar will premiere on the 2022 Bathurst 1000 on October 6, at 12:30PM, Ford Australia stated in the present day.
Fittingly this primary ‘Gen3’ Mustang Supercar can be piloted by Australian motorsport legend Dick Johnson for its first laps round Mount Panorama. Mr Johnson was the primary driver of the outgoing ‘Gen2’ Mustang Supercar on the Adelaide 500 in 2019.
Dick Johnson Racing is Ford’s homologation staff that has been designing, creating and constructing the brand new Mustang Supercar racer together with Ford Efficiency during the last two years.
The three-time Bathurst 1000 winner stated that he’s honoured to be the primary driver of the ‘Gen3’ Mustang Supercar prototype.
“My staff and I’ve been racing Fords for greater than forty years, we’re very proud representatives of and ambassadors for the Blue Oval,” he stated.
“Now we have been working extraordinarily arduous on making this automotive the perfect it could presumably be during the last couple of years, and to be the primary individual on the earth to drive it in any case of that work is unbelievable.
“Any likelihood to drive round Mount Panorama is unimaginable, however to do it in Ford’s newest race automotive is a chance I merely couldn’t move up.”
As a part of the seventh-generation mannequin’s reveal final month, Ford previewed a variety of track-only racing Mustangs that may compete globally in quite a lot of racing sequence.
Along with the Supercars model, Ford confirmed off renders of the GT3, GT4, NASCAR, and NHRA Manufacturing facility X racing homologated variations.
The Blue Oval stated it’s returning to factory-backed GT3 racing with the brand new Mustang GT3 IMSA racer that may debut on the 24 Hours of Daytona in 2024. It’ll be out there for patrons to buy.
The brand new Mustang GT4 will debut throughout the 2023 season and can be out there for international GT4 lessons in IMSA, SRO and FIA GT. It’ll be out there for patrons to buy too.
Ford additionally stated newly-designed fashions will debut within the NASCAR Cup sequence and NHRA Manufacturing facility X racing within the “coming years”.
When it comes to the common seventh-generation Mustang coupe and convertible, it’s due in Australia in late 2023. Native pricing and specification have but to be annonuced.
It’s powered by new, fourth-generation variations of the acquainted turbocharged 2.3-litre EcoBoost four-cylinder engine and naturally-aspirated 5.0-litre Coyote V8.
A ten-speed automated stays out there with each engines, nevertheless the six-speed guide is now unique to the V8.
Ford Australia has additionally confirmed it’s going to providing a track-oriented Darkish Horse as a particular version.
It is going to be powered by a “specifically modified 5.0-litre V8” and have a Torsen limited-slip differential, greater rear sway bay, beefier strut tower brace, new entrance dampers, Brembo brakes, distinctive bonnet graphic, entrance splitter, and Australian-supplied light-weight wheels.
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