Ford mulling Le Mans Hypercar entry to rival Ferrari, Porsche
We might see Ford vs Ferrari over again within the prime class of endurance racing. In accordance with media reviews, the American carmaker is mulling a Le Mans Hypercar (LMH) or Le Mans Daytona h (LMDh) entry, after a profitable stint within the LM GTE class with the Ford GT.
Throughout an interview with Autocar, Mark Rushbrook, International Director of Ford Efficiency, stated, “[We] are continually finding out or taking a look at the place we are able to race or ought to race.” When requested if Ford would take into account coming into the hypercar class, Rushbrook stated, “To be accountable for what we’re chartered to do, we’d like to pay attention to all alternatives.”
Rushbrook went on to state, “Motorsports could be very robust, general, globally, and all totally different disciplines – they’re all robust. However I feel, comparatively, sports activities automobile racing in these final three years has actually come on, and numerous that’s due to international convergence.
“GTE and GT LM converged with GT3 – so now we’ve acquired one focus for GT racing, which helped us make sense out of getting the Mustang GT3 – and the identical at prototype [level], which has not actually converged in some ways, as a result of there’s nonetheless the LMdH system, or the LMH system, however not less than there’s the flexibility to race them collectively, in order that convergence has been nice.”
Rushbrook didn’t need to disclose whether or not Ford would go for the LMH class, which permits for the vehicles to be designed and constructed from the bottom up or the LMDh class, which permits producers to make use of off-the-shelf parts.
Supply: Autocar
