Ford Reveals All-New Mustang GT3 Racer at Le Mans

LE MANS, France – Ford today unveiled the all-new Ford Mustang GT3 race car that will take on the challenge of the 24 Hours of Le Mans next year.

Revealed at the historic La Sarthe circuit, on the eve of the world’s most famous endurance race, this Mustang will compete in the global FIA GT3 category.

The announcement will see Ford return to Le Mans for the first time since 2019. The company’s most recent triumph there was in 2016 with the Ford GT.

“Ford and Le Mans are bound together by history. And now we’re coming back to the most dramatic, most rewarding and most important race in the world,” said Jim Farley, CEO, Ford Motor Company. “It is not Ford versus Ferrari anymore. It is Ford versus everyone. Going back to Le Mans is the beginning of building a global motorsports business with Mustang, just like we are doing with Bronco and Raptor off-road.”

Multimatic, builders of the iconic Ford GT, and partners in the Ford GT race program, will help build and support the Mustang GT3s. Meanwhile, Ford’s World Rally Championship partner, M-Sport, will assemble the racer’s Ford Performance-developed 5.4-litre Coyote-based V8 engine.

“For a project like the Mustang GT3, we turned to two of our most trusted partners in the motorsports world to help bring this vehicle and program together,” said Mark Rushbrook, Global Director, Ford Performance Motorsports. “I know we’ll all be as thrilled as Ford fans when Mustang begins racing at the highest levels of GT racing in 2024.”

The Mustang GT3 race car is based on the all-new 2024 Mustang Dark Horse and features a bespoke short-long arm suspension, rear-mounted transaxle gearbox, carbon fibre body panels, as well as a unique aero package developed to meet GT3 targets.

Before going to Le Mans in 2024, the Mustang GT3 will compete in various GT3 series across the globe in the hands of customer teams. The first customer team, announced today, is Proton Competition. Based in Ehingen, Germany, Proton intends to campaign a pair of Mustang GT3s in the FIA World Endurance Championship, starting in 2024.

Ford Performance will also field a two-car factory race program with Mustang GT3 in IMSA’s GTD Pro class. This will be managed by Multimatic Motorsports and begin at the 2024 Rolex 24 at Daytona.