Ford’s newest Mustang is about to go racing all around the globe, with the Blue Oval on Friday revealing a brand new GT3 buyer race automotive that is confirmed for each North America’s IMSA SportsCar Championship and the worldwide FIA World Endurance Championship. Entry within the latter will see the Mustang GT3 compete within the 24 Hours of Le Mans.

The Mustang GT3 is derived from the track-focused Mustang Darkish Horse, and can be able to race from the 2024 season. Ford will discipline the automotive within the SportsCar Championship’s GT3 class beginning subsequent yr, and buyer group Proton Competitors will enter it within the World Endurance Championship’s GTE class, additionally from subsequent yr. GTE is identical class through which Ford took a category victory on the 2016 24 Hours of Le Mans, with a race automotive primarily based on its GT supercar.

A few of the automobiles the Mustang GT3 will compete towards will embrace race automobiles primarily based on the likes of the Aston Martin Vantage, Chevrolet Corvette, Mercedes-Benz AMG GT, and Porsche 911.

Ford has developed the Mustang GT3 with motorsports companions Multimatic and M-Sport. Multimatic is identical firm that builds the GT supercar, in addition to the newer Bronco DR racer, and also will construct the Mustang GT3. M-Sport lately has labored carefully with Ford in rally competitors, and can be liable for constructing the Mustang GT3’s engine, on this case a bespoke 5.4-liter model of the common 5.0-liter V-8. It is attainable the engine may even find yourself in a road-going Mustang GT3 hinted at by Ford CEO Jim Farley in March.

The Mustang GT3 race automotive additionally options unequal size double wishbone suspension entrance and rear, a rear-mounted transaxle gearbox, carbon-fiber physique panels, and an aero bundle developed to satisfy GT3 guidelines.

Its first race would be the 2024 24 Hours of Daytona subsequent January. The race is the opening spherical of the SportsCar Championship.

Joey Hand, one of many class-winning drivers in Ford’s 2016 Le Mans marketing campaign, is serving as a check and improvement driver for this system.

Variations of the most recent Mustang are competing throughout a large spectrum of racing collection, together with NASCAR, Australia’s Supercars collection, and shortly additionally GT3 competitors. A Mustang GT4 race automotive can also be coming to additional increase the automotive’s eligibility in international competitors. Ford can also be identified to be engaged on a Mustang Darkish Horse R race automotive that would probably kind the idea of a brand new one-make collection.