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Ford GT Successor Floated As Potential Ferrari Hypercar Foe

The latest version of the Ford GT was, by all accounts, a big success for The Blue Oval, which racked up some notable wins on the track with its impressive supercar over the years. However, after 19 total victories, the Ford GT racer bowed out of competition back in 2019, and the final example of the road-going version just rolled off the assembly line not too long ago following multiple production extensions – marking the end of an era, at least for now. Now, there are rumblings that the previous-generation Ford GT may be followed by a new hypercar racer, it seems.

According to Autocar, Ford is mulling the idea of developing of a new hybrid hypercar, one that could once again rival Ferrari in the world of endurance racing at the iconic 24 Hours of Le Mans, which is why it created the original GT40 in the first place. When asked about this possibility, Mark Rushbrook, global head of Ford Performance’s motorsports division, said that the company is “constantly studying or looking at where we can race, or should race.”

Rushbrook added that Ford is already “competing in more places than any other manufacturer,” though it doesn’t current have an entry in the Le Mans Hypercar (LMH) or Le Mans Daytona h (LMDh) prototype classes. When asked if Ford would consider expanding its reach to those divisions, Rushbrook responded by saying that the automaker has “to be responsible for what we’re chartered to do, we need to be aware of all opportunities.”

“Motorsports is very strong, overall, globally, and all different disciplines – they’re all strong,” Rushbrook added. “But I think, relatively, sports car racing in these last three years has really come on, and a lot of that is because of global convergence. GTE and GT LM converged with GT3 – so now we’ve got one focus for GT racing, which helped us make sense out of having the Mustang GT3 – and the same at prototype [level], which has not truly converged in many ways, because there’s still the LMdH formula, or the LMH formula, but at least there’s the ability to race them together, so that convergence has been great.”

“You look at the number of manufacturers involved in it, and some choose LMDh while some choose LMH. So yeah, of course, we’re looking at it, but that doesn’t mean we’re going to tell you what we’ll do. We raced them at Le Mans this year and we’ll race them again,” he said, referring to the Mustang taking on the Ferrari 296 in the GT3 category this year.

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Brett's lost track of all the Fords he's owned over the years and how much he's spent modifying them, but his current money pits include an S550 Mustang and 13th gen F-150.

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  1. Mark Rushbrook and his team attempting to figure out where to spend Ford’s Racing budget with all its considerations is a very complex. Bang for the buck in terms of marketing, and brand elevation are only two of these. In the end, the bean counters will make the final analysis did all this expenditure move the sales needle at all. So, for as much fun as is it as a Ford fan to watch the new Mustang racing effort of late, it is attached to sales one way or another.

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