Gen3 Ford Mustang GT racer revealed for Supercars touring automobile collection

The redesigned 2024 Ford Mustang has been designed to go racing everywhere in the globe, together with in Australia’s well-liked touring automobile collection generally known as Supercars.

Ford on Thursday revealed the brand new Mustang GT Supercars race automobile that can compete from 2023 underneath the brand new Gen3 period, and collection veteran Dick Johnson helped introduce the automobile by taking it for a spin on Mount Panorama, residence of the Bathurst 1000.

The Gen3 race automobiles are extra intently aligned with their road-going counterparts than beforehand, with the Mustang GT Supercars racer packing the identical 5.0-liter V-8 because the street automobile, albeit with modifications to raise energy to over 600 hp. Nevertheless, the collection nonetheless use bespoke chassis designed to suit our bodies resembling manufacturing fashions. Going up towards the Mustang shall be a Chevrolet Camaro race automobile.

As soon as the unique area of the Holden Commodore and Ford Falcon, the collection, previously generally known as V8 Supercars, noticed the sixth-generation Mustang change the Falcon in 2019. The Commodore shall be changed by the Camaro with the arrival subsequent yr of the Gen3 automobiles.

Past the Supercars collection, the brand new seventh-generation Mustang may even participate in NASCAR and NHRA competitors, in addition to world GT3 and GT4 competitors. The arrival of the GT3-spec automobile will see the Mustang compete within the GT courses of the IMSA SportsCar Championship and FIA World Endurance Champion. The latter means there shall be a Mustang racing within the 24 Hours of Le Mans for the primary time since 1997.

The redesigned Mustang was proven for the primary time in September on the 2022 Detroit auto present. It should attain dealerships in mid-2023, initially in base and GT grades, in addition to a brand new track-focused Darkish Horse grade. The Darkish Horse grade may even spawn its personal race automobile that Ford could create a one-make collection round.