Ford hopes to set one other file at this 12 months’s Pikes Peak Worldwide Hill Climb. The automaker beat the earlier file by almost 37 seconds final 12 months within the SuperVan 4.2, and the corporate is returning with the F-150 Lightning SuperTruck. Ford confirmed off its wild aerodynamics late final month and now has particulars concerning the EV’s powertrain.
The SuperTruck used three STARD UHP 6-Part Motors that make greater than 1,400 horsepower mixed, greater than the SuperVan 4.2 that Ford campaigned finally 12 months’s occasion. Nevertheless, it sounds prefer it’s under the SuperVan 4.0, which made 1,972 hp. Energy comes from an ultra-high-performance Li-Polymer NMC battery.
Ford changed the truck’s camouflage wrap with a correct pink, white, and blue livery, and its design screams excessive aerodynamics. The automaker claims the pickup can generate 6,000 kilos of downforce at 150 miles per hour.
The Ford options distinguished aerodynamic options resembling its colossal three-piece entrance splitter and the large, swan-neck rear wing. It additionally has ducts the place the headlights needs to be, aspect diffusers, hood ducts and louvers, and an enormous rear diffuser that hardly hides the absolutely customized, in-board suspension system. Pirelli P-Zero tires, wrapped round magnesium solid wheels, present the grip, with carbon-ceramic brakes behind them.
It’s additionally all enterprise contained in the Lightning, the place there’s a naked carbon-fiber ground, a racing seat, a steering wheel, a small show, and never a lot else. A makeshift heart console holds two rows of buttons that management varied automobile capabilities.
Racing driver Romain Dumas will pilot Ford’s entry as soon as once more. He drove the SuperVan 4.2 up the course final 12 months, setting the brand new file within the Open Class with a run of 8 minutes and 47.682 seconds. Ford ought to set a brand new file with extra energy on faucet within the SuperTruck. The hillclimb occurs on June 23.
