New Ford Mustang GT Supercar to be proven at Bathurst 1000

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 wherever 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 as we speak.

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 crew that has been designing, growing and constructing the brand new Mustang Supercar racer along side Ford Efficiency over the past 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 crew 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.

“We’ve been working extraordinarily laborious on making this automobile one of the best it may possibly probably be over the past couple of years, and to be the primary particular person on the earth to drive it in spite of everything of that work is unbelievable.

“Any probability to drive round Mount Panorama is unbelievable, however to do it in Ford’s newest race automobile is a chance I merely couldn’t go up.”

As a part of the seventh-generation mannequin’s reveal final month, Ford previewed numerous 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 unit 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 accessible for purchasers to buy.

The brand new Mustang GT4 will debut through the 2023 season and can be accessible for international GT4 lessons in IMSA, SRO and FIA GT. It’ll be accessible for purchasers to buy too.

Ford additionally stated newly-designed fashions will debut within the NASCAR Cup sequence and NHRA Manufacturing unit 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 computerized stays accessible with each engines, nevertheless the six-speed handbook 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 will likely 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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