The new GT3 of the ólvao brand will be officially presented at the joint event of the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship and the WEC in Sebring in March 2023. The vehicle will be built by Multimatic.
The new Ford Mustang GT3 It is one of the competition versions of the new generation of the ‘pony car’ par excellence. During the launch of the 2024 Mustang last month, the brand showed the different racing versions that its car will have and among them this GT3 that seems key within the global sports strategy of the oval brand.
However, the small promotional video published by Ford did not offer many details of the GT3 of the oval firm, a model that will start testing later this year in the best casebut that it will most likely hit the track in early 2023, just a year before its theoretical debut at the 2024 24 Hours of Daytona.
Ford has the great aspiration of returning to Le Mans with a much more global GT3 model than its extinct GTE
Although one of the main focuses of competition for the Ford Mustang GT3 from 2024 will be the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship, where the brand is expected to have an official program in the GTD Pro class, The truth is that the Detroit firm has between eyebrows and eyebrows its return to the WECas well as the goal of shaping a complete ‘career-client’ program at a global level.
Taking this into account, it is not surprising that Ford Performance has chosen the ‘Super Sebring’ event in March 2023 to officially present its new GT3 vehicle. In the end, we are talking about one of the great weekends of world endurance due to the joint dispute in a single event of the 12 Hours of Sebring of the IMSA and the 1,000 Miles of Sebring of the WEC.
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The return to Le Mans
larry holtvice president of operations of special vehicles of Multimatic has highlighted the objective of Ford: «Bill Ford and Jim Farley love racing and they are totally determined to bring the seventh generation Mustang to the whole world, so that race with as many customers in as many classes as possible. It’s a fantastic sight, for sure.”
“I am proud that Multimatic has been chosen to help execute a part of this global project with the development of the GT3 and GT4 cars. As they said from the brand on the night of celebration of the launch of the new car, what Ford really wants is to return to Le Mans with the Mustang. The same is true at Multimatic,” added Holt.
the american race
There are many American brands with a long tradition in competition, but if we focus on the GTE class, the two manufacturers by definition are Corvette and Ford. The two brands have had a GTE/GTLM vehicle and are now developing a GT3 to continue their projects. The terms are similar, although it is true that the Corvette Z06.R has already debuted on the track.
Thus begins a kind of American-style race for developing a GT3 that lives up to the demands of the IMSA and the WEC, but above all that can compete with the multitude of vehicles under this technical regulation that are on the market and that are born directly from the ‘racing-client’ departments from a number of European manufacturers.
Photos: Ford Performance