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Bet itll be fast than "most" people expect it to be.
Whos the driver?
Interesting...Not expecting a blistering time or anything....assuming slower than a ZR1
Bet it beats it.
I mean, VIR is no Nurburgring, but the ZR1 was faster than the GT there by almost a second and a half. The ZR1 is a monster...I'm also a huge GT and Ford apologist and swinger.
I get what Ford was trying to do with the GT...it's a great car, but it just feels like it came out 10 years too late. It was billed as a world beater, but it compares to 675's, 488's, but for almost double their price, and a minimal performance advantage, sometimes if it all. It's competitive, but it's in no way a world beater.
https://www.roadandtrack.com/new-ca...ew-ford-gt-stacks-up-against-its-competition/
The "story" is that Billy Johnson wasn't trying to set a lap record at VIR. Who knows if that's factual.
The thing about the GT is it was built for endurance racing, where it's done very well. Dare I say a world beater on the track.
Also have to remember IMSA or whoever the sanctioning body of that class is, makes the cars performance as close as possible. Some of their success has less do with the car's performance and more to do with the team's strategy and organization. The first couple of years the Ford team also sandbagged during practice, to lessen their "performance adjustments". Sanctioning body, and other teams got wise to that pretty quickly.
Good point, but the GT has been penalized by "balance of performance" rulings where they had to add weight, run less boost, and carry less fuel. It seems like the sanctioning bodies are hindering the GT's performance to make the field more competitive.
Ford comes out with halo car, not even built by ford to promote ford cars...... oh wait.. That's ok, only build 1000 of them.
These are hand made/assembled all carbon fiber... Ford designed and built the thing in just a year and a half and went and Won LeMans after not being there for 50 years!
All cars are hand made fyi..
Again, Ford did not build them.
Congrats on their win to help promote the soon nonexistent cars for sale at ford.
Hand built meaning not built on an assembly line, which modern assembly lines are less hands on and incorporate things like automation and robotics.
I don't think Ford's goal was to promote cars, rather they did it to showcase Ford's engineering talent and win Le Mans.
The original ford gt40 wasnt built by ford either. Was contracted out with the premise of it being ford powered.
automation and robotics for sealer and paint. This is actually better for quality. Everywhere else they are built by hand lol.
If not to promote sales, then the program is stupid. It's a good thing I guess that fird is actually better and more profitable at being a bank and investment firm than they are at manufacturing vehicles.
automation and robotics for sealer and paint. This is actually better for quality. Everywhere else they are built by hand lol.
If not to promote sales, then the program is stupid. It's a good thing I guess that fird is actually better and more profitable at being a bank and investment firm than they are at manufacturing vehicles.
This. Wasn't even an inhouse chassis, based on a Lola chassis