This teaser reveals extra aggressive aero, nevertheless it’s not clear if it is on a road automobile, a racer, or one thing else.
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Regardless of coming away empty-handed eventually weekend’s 24 Hours of Le Mans, the Ford GT has an enviable efficiency document on each observe and road. However that does not imply that the Blue Oval is content material with its low-slung, wing-shaped supercar. Want proof? Ford is teasing the upcoming reveal of what appears to be a brand-new GT by-product on the UK’s Goodwood Competition Of Pace on July four.
It is onerous to make out a lot from the shadowy teaser picture proven above, however it’s clear that the thriller automobile options radically totally different aerodynamics than the present manufacturing mannequin. Most notably, there’s an enormous rear wing that appears considerably totally different from the smaller lively aero unit on the road automobile. In truth, the aerofoil appears an terrible lot just like the wing affixed to the rear of Ford’s GT LM GTE race vehicles, albeit with bigger endplates.
Moreover, not like at this time’s manufacturing and race vehicles, the Ford GT seems to have a brand new aspect straight over the roof, doubtless some kind of chilly air scoop to feed the engine.
It isn’t instantly clear whether or not the Goodwood-bound debut can be a street-legal mannequin, a brand new race automobile or one thing in between.
Ford ran these heritage liveries on the 24 Hours of Le Mans simply final weekend.
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Based on a brief official press launch from Ford, we must always study extra in regards to the automobile at 1:45 am PT on July four. At the moment, the thriller supercar will debut alongside the UK premiere of the corporate’s new 760-horsepower Mustang Shelby GT500 and a brand new Focus ST, the latter of which, sadly, we cannot get within the US.
Officers aren’t saying something about it in the intervening time, however we would be stunned if the Blue Oval did not take the chance to show this thriller Ford GT within the Goodwood’s famed hill climb. In any case, the corporate has already confirmed it should run no less than eight different vehicles up Lord March’s 1.16-mile lengthy hill course at the moment, together with the No. 66 Chip Ganassi Racing GT, a automobile that in all probability nonetheless has a coating of bugs and grit from Le Mans on its flanks.
