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Ford lost a fine representative of the company when Jesse left....
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It was announced yesterday that the Ford GT program is dead after 2019.
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Ford will stop providing support for both Chip Ganassi Racing Team USA and Team UK at the end of this year, ending its official involvement in IMSA and FIA World Endurance Championship. While the factory-backed Ford GT will be no longer, the car may still compete in IMSA and WEC through customer teams. Ford is hoping to sell the remaining Ford GT race car chassis to interested IMSA or WEC teams, it said. The automaker’s goal is to have four cars racing next year – preferably two in IMSA and two in the WEC. “We’ve talked, at some level, just looking to find the best way to keep the cars on track in the future with some level of involvement from us,” Ford Performance’s head of motorsport, Mark Rushbrook told Sportscar365 in an interview. “The cars are meant to be on track. They’re meant to be raced and that’s our preference, in trying to optimize where and how they get raced.” The automaker would provide some level of support for customer Ford GT teams, however, due to the complexity of the vehicle. “With these cars, they are of a higher pedigree that you can’t just sell them to anybody and they can just go race them,” Rushbrook added. “You can’t just push the button and go. There’s a lot of knowledge that needs to go along with it to make sure they’re raced competitively.” |
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Re: 2019 Cobra Jet program in jeopardy ?
Ford said from the very start that the GT program would not be a long term factory backed effort. It sounds like they want the team owners to take over running the program with limited factory support. Probably a deal more like what they currently do in NASCAR.
The GT street car program was originally not supposed to last as long as it has either.
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Reading Jesse Kershaw's posts is a fascinating inside glimpse of what it takes to develop a package car. I would LOVE to get the same description of what happened inside Mopar. Why DID Geoff Turk leave the brand he raced for decades (at the pinnacle of performance) and jump into a CJ? I bet the story their is even more brutal than what Mr. Kershaw is relaying...
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