This wild-looking off-roader is the Ford Raptor T1+, and it’s a purpose-built automobile set to tackle the Dakar Rally.
Revealed on the 2024 Goodwood Pageant of Velocity, this Ford is inbuilt collaboration with Ford Efficiency and M-Sport Ltd, a UK-based motorsports engineering firm that’s recognized for its rally efforts. Beneath the hood is a well-known powerplant with the 5.0-liter Coyote V8 with an unspecified quantity of horsepower. It has a dry-sump oil system and distinctive exhaust totally seen from the rear.
Fox three-way adjustable and four-way adjustable exterior bypass dampers with distant reservoirs are used, and Ford says it has 13.8 inches of wheel journey. It rides on 37-inch tires wrapping 17-inch aluminum wheels. Alcon discs and six-piston calipers are put in in any respect 4 corners. Floor clearance stands at a mighty 15.7 inches, and its physique consists of all carbon fiber panels.
Its livery calls out Ford’s partnership with Crimson Bull with a standard Crimson Bull design and colours. In fact, there’s an entire lot of Raptor branding splattered throughout it, too, with our favourite half being the “RAPTOR” spelled out within the entrance skid plate.
“To embrace this problem, we have now partnered with the very best on this planet with M-Sport and Crimson Bull, and I believe it exhibits how significantly we’re taking this mission,” stated Mark Rushbrook, international director of Ford Efficiency Motorsports. “The Ford Raptor T1+ is a stake within the floor for our international off-road imaginative and prescient – we need to tackle the very best and show ourselves within the hardest locations on earth. The teachings we’re studying from Raptor T1+, together with competing with inventory vans in Baja 1000 and Finke Desert Race, will assist make Raptor autos even higher for our clients.”
Ford intends to enter the Raptor T1+ in no less than three rally occasions via January of this yr, with the final being the Dakar Rally. Carlos Sainz Sr. and Nani Roma are confirmed drivers, however there will probably be two different entries with unnamed drivers, as effectively. In case you’re at Goodwood, you’ll be capable to see the Raptor T1+ on the grounds in all its wild off-road glory.
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