The recently developed Ford Mustang GT3 race car has undergone its first test drive more than a year before its scheduled competitive launch in 2024.
Ford Performance and Multimatic Motorsports have collaborated to create a vehicle based on the seventh-generation Mustang, which is currently undergoing its initial track testing at Sebring during a three-day trial this week. Jim Farley, Ford's CEO, confirmed that the Mustang GT3 is now operational, as evidenced by a video posted on Twitter featuring the car in action at the Sebring circuit. Sources suggest that the vehicle was briefly tested last week at a Multimatic testing facility located in Mooresville, North Carolina, which served as the primary development center for the car.
The initial automobile was then moved to Sebring, where it was joined by the Chevrolet Corvette Z06 GT3.R and Toyota's GR010 HYBRID Le Mans Hypercar, both of which will make their racing debuts next year, for a three-day test that began on Monday. Jim Farley's tweet did not provide any specifics on the Sebring test, such as the drivers who were piloting the vehicle.
The test drivers for the Mustang GT3 project are likely to include Joey Hand, who was announced as the official test driver and previously drove the Multimatic-developed Ford GT for the Chip Ganassi Racing team in the IMSA SportsCar Championship from 2016 to 2019. Harry Tincknell, who previously raced for Multimatic in both the World Endurance Championship with Ford and the IMSA with Mazda, is also expected to have a role in the Mustang program. Ford announced its entry into the GT3 competition with the Mustang at the Daytona 24 Hours in January 2022. Following that, the seventh generation of the Mustang muscle car was launched at the Detroit Motor Show in October, and computer-generated images of the Mustang GT3 racer's appearance were released. The car is powered by a race-tuned version of Ford's five-liter Coyote V8 engine, which was developed by M-Sport in the United Kingdom.
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