Ford is not any longer going to employ its GT as the postulate for an entry into the World Endurance Championship’s hypercar class, in step with Multimatic motorsport boss Larry Holt.
The GT made its WEC debut in 2016 as section of a four-365 days deal between Ford Performance and Multimatic to scurry the factory-backed programme.
That deal expired after final month’s Le Mans 24 Hours, although Multimatic – which developed and builds the street and scurry GT – is seeking to proceed with the automotive in a privateer capability.
On the first day of the Goodwood Festival of Hotfoot, the 2 firms unveiled a GT MkII be aware-completely variant but ruled out the employ of it as the muse for a planned entry into the hypercar class.
Holt told Autosport: “No, the original automotive has no longer been performed with [the hypercar class] in thoughts the least bit.
“Ford did their deal for four years, they’ve performed what they said they’d produce.
“Are they wanting at what they absorb to produce subsequent? Yeah, they’re.
“The GT could perhaps be the closest thing to a GTE-plus automotive, but that is not any longer the capability [the ACO] absorb long previous.
“They’ve long previous to hypercar suggestions. That’s no longer a hypercar.
Though Holt ruled out the employ of the GT, he said that Ford changed into as soon as calm actively taking a look to be part of Aston Martin and Toyota in 2020/21 for the opening season of the hypercar rules.
“There could be nothing within the MKII [that points to a hypercar future], but Ford are wanting at all the pieces.
“They’re in a mode now the assign they’re investigating.”
But Holt changed into as soon as assured that if Ford did enter the category it could doubtless well perhaps return to Multimatic with whom it acquired the GTE Pro class of Le Mans in 2016, asserting “we’re joined on the hip”.
With over 700bhp and additional downforce, Holt said the demonstrate of the MkII GT changed into as soon as as a substitute the “closing expression” of the GT that had been held motivate attributable to the constraints of Balance of Performance.
“The GT is loads much less compromised than most supercars, however it’s calm considerably compromised,” he told Autosport.
“Then we lunge racing with it and a punter would train or no longer it’s the closing version.
“But or no longer it’s no longer, since you’ve got bought BoP. It is some distance rarely the closing activity of unveiling the efficiency of the GT, or no longer it’s the reverse.
“You would possibly want to doubtless well doubtless be racing a [Chevrolet] Corvette, [Aston Martin] Vantage, the [Ferrari] 488 and the [BMW] M8.
“You absorb bought most regularly donkey and giraffe racing.”
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