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Do you know about the Mustang GTP? Unfortunately, it's one of the saddest and most unsuccessful race cars the Ford Motor Company has ever built. Designed by the legendary Bob Riley and packing a 1.7-liter turbocharged inline four-cylinder pumping out an astonishing 600 horsepower, the Mustang...

Ford Performance will finally debut the Mustang GT4 in Europe this weekend. The Multimatic-built car will be entered in the GT4 European Series Southern Cup season finale taking place at the Circuit Paul Ricard, near Marseille, France. “The best way to show customers what a car can do is to...

KohR Motorsports has taken delivery of its second GT4-spec Ford Mustang ahead of this weekend's Continental Tire SportsCar Challenge season finale at Road Atlanta. The second car will be piloted by Parker Chase and the returning Nate Stacy, who competed with the team in Pirelli World Challenge...

Ryan Briscoe, Richard Westbrook, and the No. 67 Ford GT took their fifth podium of the 2017 IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship season as the team chases down the No.3 Corvette for overall championship honors. Briscoe and Westbrook qualified seventh before clawing their way up to second...

The Ford Mustang has been officially homologated as a global GT4 car by the SRO.  Built by Mulitmatic in Toronto, the car has already competed in both the IMSA Continental Tire SportsCar Challenge and Pirelli World Challenge at times this year under series-specific homologations. According to...

Dirk Müller and Joey Hand drove the No.66 Ford GT to GTLM class honors at Road America during the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship race on Sunday.  As the race moved rapidly towards its conclusion, Hand was vigorously brawling with not only No.912 Porsche but also his teammates Ryan...

Photo: Drew GibsonBuilt in Canada, don't you ever forget.  Ford Chip Ganassi Racing was going to need a stroke of strategic luck if they were to get on the podium at Canadian Tire Motorsport Park during Sunday's Mobil 1 Sportscar Grand Prix. After struggling with terrible pace all weekend...

Photo: Drew GibsonAccording to Ford Performance, the company could begin supplying customer teams with Ford GT race cars as early as next year.  So far there are only four race-prepped Ford GTs in existence--two in IMSA and two in the WEC--and they all belong to Ford Chip Ganassi Racing, but if...

Ford's new Mustang GT4 is on the verge of receiving the green light to compete globally. According to Ford Performance Global Director Dave Pericak, the SRO is expected to grant the Multimatic-built race car its final homologation within the next month. The car has been racing since early...

Photo: Drew GibsonThe No.67 Ford GT piloted by Andy Priaulx, Harry Tincknell, and Pipo Derani stood on the second spot of the 2017 Le Mans 24 Hours GTE Pro podium. A last-minute battle for the lead between the No.63 Corvette C7.R and the No.97 Aston Martin Vanatage left the Corvette limping...

Credit: Ford Chip Ganassi FlickrFifth and sixth positions capped off a tough day for Ford Chip Ganassi Racing during the Advance Auto Parts Sportscar Showdown at Circuit of the Americas on Saturday.  The fourth round of the IMSA WEatherTech SportsCar Championship was marred by an opening lap...

The three Ford GTs finished 2nd, 4th and 5th at IMSA's annual 12 Hours of Sebring. In the Floridian darkness the No. 66 Ford GT was hunting the Corvette C7.R of Antonio Garica with the hard-charging Joey Hand at the controls, eventually falling short of class victory by 4 seconds. Hand combined...

Following an update to IMSA's sporting regulations, Ford factory driver, and current GS-class champion Billy Johnson might be banned from competition next year. FIA Platinum-rated drivers will be ineligible for competition in the IMSA Continental Tire SportsCar Challenge next year, Johnson saw...

The Lone Star Le Mans is one of the biggest sports car events of the season, bringing together both the IMSA and WEC paddocks down at COTA. This was only the second time all four Ford GTs were racing in the same place, the first being their historic GTE-Pro double podium at Le Mans in June. If...

The No.66 was on the podium and the No.67 closed down the Corvette's championship lead at VIR.   Joey Hand and Dirk Muller held on for a solid 2nd place finish behind the No.3 Corvette C7.R, giving the No.66 its third podium of the season. “This was one of those races where we thought we had...

Joey Hand takes us all for a ride in the No.66 Ford GT around the legendary Road America.

Strategy moves nearly brought Billy Johnson, Scott Maxwell and the GT350R-C its third consecutive podium to start the Continental Sports Car Championship season.  The No.15 Multimatic Motorsports GT350R-C pitted from the lead under caution with 43 minutes left, hoping fresh rubber would help...

The Ford GT made history on Sunday, taking it's first GTLM victory during the Continental Monterey Grand Prix at Laguna Seca.  It was fuel economy that netted team FoMoCo the checkered, while most teams needed 2 or 3 fuel stops, the No.67 Ford GT needed only one. After Ryan Briscoe gave way to...