Ford's Return to GT Racing

[TF110]

Love those big flying butresses. Looks ready to race as is.

[urdragon]

Originally Posted by Speed-King

Looks somewhat Murcielago-ish. I think Reiter's last GT1 aerokit would look pretty nice on the Ford.

That's good if it resembles the second most beautiful lambo (R-SV/LP 670) beyond the countach!

I just want to see that thnig with a front and rear splitter.

[ThatGuy]

If a GTE McLaren doesn't come first, this will be the first carbon tub GTE car.

[David Land]

Originally Posted by HJJ

Could be at Petit.

http://blackflag.jalopnik.com/there-...039031/+travis

I might go to my third Petit after all. DPs be damned. Would be a historic race.

[GTfour]

I love it. It looks really purposefull. With these kind of earodynamics, I think it's sure it'll come to Le Mans.

[broadrun96]

Originally Posted by David Land

I might go to my third Petit after all. DPs be damned. Would be a historic race.

I'm choosing to be optimistic that even a mock-up will be there. It could be interesting if Ganassi is out of the championship hunt, does Ford want his guys to run the new car at Petit to give it a good shakedown and let the ACO get an idea of what the car can do and get a non-WEC invite. But any chance the ACO would deny Ford, really??

[GTfour]

Originally Posted by broadrun96

But any chance the ACO would deny Ford, really??

Nah.

[joeb]

Check out @Ford's Tweet: https://twitter.com/Ford/status/554782012645449728?s=09


Yes please, this is an awesome video

[broadrun96]

Can we fire the ad guys that think cars should be covered with terrible, loud, obnoxious music? Course if it's a computer rendering I guess the faked audio doesn't matter much.

[joeb]

Originally Posted by broadrun96

Can we fire the ad guys that think cars should be covered with terrible, loud, obnoxious music? Course if it's a computer rendering I guess the faked audio doesn't matter much.

Good point! Just looking at some new pics, that car looks low and long! Love to see it next to other supercars, also love to see it lap road Atlanta

[Fogelhund]

Originally Posted by HJJ

Could be at Petit.

http://blackflag.jalopnik.com/there-...039031/+travis

Jalopnik is terrible... Don't even know the rules, typically write complete BS, or they simply steal stuff from others.

[broadrun96]

Originally Posted by Fogelhund

Jalopnik is terrible... Don't even know the rules, typically write complete BS, or they simply steal stuff from others.

To be fair a lot of people kept jumping on the EcoBoost idea thinking that turbo'd engines weren't allowed, especially with BMW swapping because the rules make turbo a pita. You do have to take a LOT of jalopnik with a grain of salt and try to find the few decent writers from the scattergun, throw 100 ideas at the wall and see what sticks guys. Ford at Petit isn't a big stretch, I won't expect it but would consider it a great bonus for the race.

[Giba]

Well done Ford, you've made a car that looks moodern but still has hints to the original GT40.
Although it would be great if the car is ready for Petit, I think it depends if Ganassi are in the hunt for the championship as even though they are a large professional team, running the new GT along with their DP's could be a distraction for their championship fight.

[carbsmith]

Ganassi has about 4 IndyCar teams worth of personnel with not much else to do that time of the year anyways.

[pederb]

Lets hope they make a GT3 version of it

[J Jay]

The rear lights/exhaust layout bothers me:



but apart from that I like how it's reminiscent of the GT/GT40/GT90 without resembling any of them too much.

[deggis]

Originally Posted by pederb

Lets hope they make a GT3 version of it

You mean also?

[BullMan]

Originally Posted by broadrun96

To be fair a lot of people kept jumping on the EcoBoost idea thinking that turbo'd engines weren't allowed, especially with BMW swapping because the rules make turbo a pita. You do have to take a LOT of jalopnik with a grain of salt and try to find the few decent writers from the scattergun, throw 100 ideas at the wall and see what sticks guys. Ford at Petit isn't a big stretch, I won't expect it but would consider it a great bonus for the race.

They have said no fewer than 3 times that turbos weren't allowed in GTE. I, along with other have even pointed them to the numbered rule in which that states turbos are allowed, yet they still write the same stuff. The Rennsport section is usually solid, but everything else is pretty terrible.

[WMUCarGuy]

Cool bit of info I just learned... The vents within the circular taillights are where the turbo's wastegates dump.

[urdragon]

Ok, maybe the front air intakes, and the back aren't beautier than the Ford GT, but side view and Scissor doors are Beautier and useful than the 2005-2006 edition.

And nobody complaints with the LaFerrari's back, which isn't much beautier and costs much more than this:

[Gingers4Justice]

They've done an excellent job of makingit look like a previous model and like nothing you've ever seen before at the same time. It's clearly the Ford GT's successor, you can see that, but from certain angles it looks like a concept car.

[Thaw Daggerslash]

Any very clever people out there done a GTE spec mock up yet?

*Hint hint*

[hondafan37]

Ford GT Gulf livery
http://www.roadandtrack.com/car-show...=_hpTrnsprtr_5

[GT6]

Now that looks like a livery we would all like to see

[Maelochs]

The Gulf livery on that car, or rather that car in Gulf livery+simply gorgeous.

The vents in the taillights? I can't wait to see flames shoot out when the thing downshifts at night.

I don't see any way Ford can Not race the car. They didn't really need it for purely commercial purposes--they could have pushed the pumped-up Mustangs harder for sheer money-making.

I'd say they built this car because they Want to go racing, and needed something besides a Mustang, which, IRS aside, is an overweight throwback living on buzz created in the mid '60s. To face off against Corvette and Ferrari, Aston and (hopefully) Viper they needed a better base car, so this got built.

Petit in 2015 or not, I am pretty sure we will see this car in action against C7.Rs and 458 Italias, both in North America and in Europe.