24 hours of LE MANS is important for Ford. Her successive total victories there from 1966-1969 are the things of legend, and a great source of pride for Ford to this day. In 2027, Ford will look forward to repeating this achievement. At a event on Thursday in Charlotte, North Carolina, Ford announced that it is building a car to compete in the World Enforcement Championship (WEC), including 24 hours of Lowan, in 2027.
Ford advertisement scattered. The auto industry company simply confirmed that it enters WEC with the factory team and a car designed into the LMDH group.
LMDH is a joint creation between the First Sports Automobile Management Authority in America, IMSA, and the 24 -hour ruling council from Loman, ACO. The bases stipulate that cars contain a structure from one of the four service providers and use a common mixed system with an electric motor between the engine and the transmission. The car structure can reflect the brand design, and the engine restrictions are somewhat lenient.
It aims to be cheaper than the higher -level and qualified racing formulas for both the IMSA Weathertech and WeC series. LMDH has achieved great success, as ACURA, Alpine, BMW, Cadillac, Lamborghini and Porsche registered. The luxury Hyundai mark of Genesis has also announced that it has built the LMDH, GMR-001, to compete in IMSA and WeC, and don’t be surprised by McLaren’s vision that also joins the chapter.
In both series, LMDH cars are competing against cars that were built to the Le Mans Hypercar (LMH) bases group in FIA, which states that expatriates should build their own structure and allow more technical freedom. Among the ranks of LMH Ferrari, Peugeot, Toyota, a handful of the private sector, and soon Aston Martin.
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Do not say Ford if it will compete in the IMSA Weathertech series yet, and hasn’t announced the structure partner either. It is easy to see Ford operating with multi -mail, as the Canadian company built GT Road and Race from the second generation, and is currently building Mustang GT3. Multimatic also makes the structure for Porsche 963, which is currently the most successful LMDH.
We also don’t know what Ford team is participating with this program. In recent years, it has turned into Chip Ganassi Racing, which now has the availability after a partnership has ended. Ford also has a relationship with Proton Racing, which is even traditionally the Porsche team, which is currently introducing a 963 customer, runs the Mustang GT3 program in Europe.
Ford has not achieved an explicit victory over LE MANS since 1969. He ran the C in the early 1980s, C100, although it never ended the race. In 2016, she returned to Le Mans with the GT GTLM, and won a victory in the chapter on the fiftieth anniversary of the 1966 race, and while this program ended in 2019, Ford returned last year with Mustang GT3.
“When we are racing, we are racing to win,” Ford Ford Chairman said in a statement. “There is no path or race that means our history more than Luman. It is the place where we took Ferrari and won in the 1960s. We are happy that we return to LE Mans and compete at the highest level of endurance.