The Ford Mustang GT3 is a reality and the oval firm has started the countdown to return to the category with a model that will debut in 2024. The firm will have an official program in the IMSA GTD Pro class and a ‘racing-client’ project global.
The seventh generation of the Ford Mustang is a reality. The spectacular model of the oval brand has been the protagonist of a spectacular online presentation in which Detroit has had a key role. Despite the fact that this sports coupé can boast of a 5.0-liter turbocharged V8 engine and has arguments to be a star, the American firm wanted surround your icon with your pureblood brothers.
The new version of the American icon serves as the basis, in its Dark Horse version, for four new generation competition models. We’re talking about the Mustang GT3 and GT4, as well as the Mustang of V8 Supercars and the Mustang of NASCAR. Bearing in mind that the last three models already exist today and these new versions update the existing proposal -visual and/or mechanical- for this season, the great novelty goes through the Ford Mustang GT3.
“We are still on the way to define the factory program in GTD Pro. In all other championships we will go in ‘races-customer’ mode”
In the end, Ford returns to GT3 racing years later with a new Mustang that will be ready to race from 2024. His official debut will take place at the 24 Hours of Daytona that season, the starting point of the factory program that prepares Ford in the GTD Pro class of the IMSA WeatherTech SportCars Championship. The manufacturer’s new GT3 will also compete in the GTD class and other championships, but in private hands under a ‘customer-racing’ model.
In this sense, the Mustang GT4 and its brothers destined for V8 Supercars and NASCAR will dress up in the near future and will hit the circuits before or, at most, parallel to the GT3. In fact, the Mustang GT4 will be available to customers who so wish from the 2023 season. The V8 Supercars model will also compete from next year, while the NASCAR model will debut in 2024.
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A comprehensive model
The new Ford Mustang GT3 is a global model and with a greater relevance than the Ford GT -under GTE regulations- that returned the mark to the 24 Hours of Le Mans and with which they achieved class victory in 2016. The Mustang GT3 may also be in the queen event of the WEC -and in the rest of the championship- when there is a change in the regulations of the category, in addition to being the protagonist in IMSA.
Beyond the endurance championships by definition and the official program that Ford will have together with Multimatic in the IMSA GTD Pro class, the GT3 based on the Mustang can be part of many other championships that are orchestrated on the GT3 technical regulations. This is the case of the DTM or the ADAC GT Masters in Europe.
SRO welcomes you
Among the championships that may have the Mustang GT3 as their destination, always from private efforts, are the different contests managed by SRO Motorsports. Although in the past the declarations of Stéphane Ratel as the visible head of the promoter hinted that his idea of GT3 vehicles goes through more exclusive and expensive models than a Ford Mustang, in the end SRO has given its particular ‘welcome’ to the new model.
Oblivious to this circumstance, Mark Rushbrook as head of Ford has pointed out: «We are still on the way to define the factory program in GTD Pro. In all the other championships we will go in a ‘client-race’ mode. We love the fact that now the GTE/GTLM class is leaving and everyone is focused on the GT3s, because we can now sell this Ford Mustang GT3 all over the world».