New Mustang GT3 race car will tackle both the IMSA SportsCar Championship and FIA World Endurance Championship.
is set to go racing all over the globe, with the Blue Oval on Friday revealing a new GT3 customer race car that's confirmed for both North America's IMSA SportsCar Championship and the global FIA World Endurance Championship. Entry in the latter will see the Mustang GT3 compete in the 24 Hours of Le Mans., and will be ready to race from the 2024 season.
Ford has developed the Mustang GT3 with motorsports partners Multimatic and M-Sport. Multimatic is the same company that builds the GT supercar, as well as the more recent, and will also build the Mustang GT3. M-Sport in recent years has worked closely with Ford in rally competition, and will be responsible for building the Mustang GT3's engine, in this case a bespoke 5.4-liter version of the regular 5.0-liter V-8.
Its first race will be the 2024 24 Hours of Daytona next January. The race is the opening round of the SportsCar Championship. Joey Hand, one of the class-winning drivers in Ford's 2016 Le Mans campaign, is serving as a test and development driver for the program. Versions of the latest Mustang are competing across a wide spectrum of racing series, including NASCAR, Australia's Supercars series, and soon also GT3 competition. A Mustang GT4 race car is also coming to further expand the car's eligibility in global competition. Ford is also known to be working on a
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