Ford Performance Shelby GT350R-C to Make IMSA Competition Debut at Watkins Glen
June 24 2015 - 9:30AM
Business Wire
- All-new Shelby® GT350R-C embodies Ford
innovation through performance as race car makes its competition
debut this weekend at Watkins Glen
- Shelby GT350R-C to compete in the
remainder of the 2015 IMSA Continental Tire SportsCar Challenge
with Multimatic Motorsports
- Competition version of Shelby GT350R
features all-new 5.2-liter flat-plane crankshaft V8 created to
extend on-track performance
There’s no mistaking the wicked sound or aggressive looks of the
all-new Shelby® GT350R-C that Ford announced today would see its
first official track time at Watkins Glen this weekend.
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Ford Shelby GT350R-C, the competition
version of the reincarnated icon, will compete in the IMSA
Continental Tire SportsCar Challenge, a showdown of the most
popular - and accessible - performance cars from around the world.
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Ford Shelby GT350R-C, the competition version of the
reincarnated icon, will compete in the IMSA Continental Tire
SportsCar Challenge, a showdown of the most popular – and
accessible – performance cars from around the world.
The GT350R production car was unveiled in January, and is one of
more than 12 new vehicles Ford Performance will bring to market
through 2020. Since its introduction, sports car enthusiasts have
eagerly awaited the debut of a racing version.
"Like so many Mustangs before it, the Shelby GT350R is a car
born to race,” said Dave Pericak, director, Global Ford
Performance. “We’re taking it to the track as the GT350R-C and
we’re ready to see what it can do against the best competition in
the world.”
Both production and race car versions feature the first-ever
production car V8 from Ford with a flat-plane crankshaft. This
unique layout – typically reserved for the world’s most exotic
sports cars – helped create the most powerful naturally aspirated
engine Ford has ever produced.
The race car features an adapted version of the advanced, fully
independent suspension from GT350R – fitted with revised spring
rates and antiroll bars, lower ride height, unique track-tuned
alignment settings, revised bushings and cross-axis ball joints in
the front.
Longtime Ford partner Multimatic Motorsports, which will manage
the race team, returned to the blue oval in the series’ Grand Sport
division in 2014, piloting the Mustang Boss 302R with some of the
most popular and talented drivers on its roster. The squad will
field drivers Billy Johnson, Scott Maxwell, Austin Cindric and Jade
Buford for the GT350R-C debut at Watkins Glen.
“Ford is committed to the Continental Tire SportsCar Challenge
and we’re very happy to be campaigning its product here,” said
Larry Holt, team principal, Multimatic Motorsports. “We like the
endurance format, and the racing is always intense. Strategy plays
a big role; the cars must be fast and reliable, and there are
always at least 10 contenders running door-to-door for two and a
half hours. It is the perfect home for the GT350R-C.”
“American muscle cars have a storied history in the Continental
Tire SportsCar Challenge, and we eagerly anticipate the start of a
new chapter with introduction of the Shelby GT350R-C,” said Scott
Atherton, president of IMSA. “Mustang has earned icon status
through its racing heritage going back to the competition Mustangs
of the 1960s, and this new race car will undoubtedly add to the
legend.”
For full technical details of the production GT350R, visit
http://racing.ford.com/series/more-racing/news/articles/2015/01/shelby-gt350r-mustang--the-most-track-capable-production-mustang.html.
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