Ford’s array of factory-backed experiences for house owners expands with the approaching Mustang Expertise Heart. Opening later this yr adjoining to the Charlotte Motor Speedway, Ford previews it as “the vacation spot for all issues Mustang.” A museum-style Heritage Gallery will take guests on a tour of 60 years of Mustang, the compulsory retail store stuffed with merchandise mementos to take the reminiscences dwelling. The Ford Efficiency Racing Faculty will host its Mustang Unleashed monitor day programs on the speedway advanced, these aimed on the EcoBoost and GT Trims that lastly get their very own modules after the Darkish Horse Monitor Assault. College students who need to improve their private rides to match their new expertise will be capable of purchase aftermarket components on the Mustang Expertise components store. For the really horse loopy, the ability is able to host company occasions and weddings, too.
One yr in the past, there have been rumors of a brand new street course at Charlotte Motor Speedway that ex-Method 1 driver Alex Wurz was serving to to design. Nothing official’s been heard in regards to the addition since, however Ford’s launch mentions a brand new 1.7-mile street course that is going to open this quarter. In that case, it might give the Ford Efficiency faculty and different monitor guests a kinder monitor day expertise than the notorious Charlotte Roval that, akin to Rolex 24 at Daytona, combines an infield infield street course with the normal NASCAR banked oval.
On the opposite facet of the tracks, Ford has confirmed its preliminary livery for the brand new factory-backed Mustang GT3 IMSA racers that can marketing campaign within the IMSA SportsCar Championship. Known as the Champion Spirit Livery, it honors eight Mustang competitors automobiles that noticed motion from the years 1964 to 1997. The chosen honorees:
- The Alan Mann Racing-prepped Mustangs that took first and second within the 1964 Tour de France, solely 5 months after the Mustang’s debut;
- The Shelby GT350 that received the 1965 SCCA B-Manufacturing Championship;
- The 1966 Shelby American Mustang that received the inaugural SCCA Trans-Am Collection season;
- The 1970 Mustang Boss 302 that Parnelli Jones and George Follmer used to win that yr’s SCCA Trans-Am Collection;
- The turbocharged 1981 Zakspeed Mustang that represented Ford’s return to sports activities automobile racing;
- The 1985 Roush IMSA Mustang GTO that received 9 IMSA races on the best way to the motive force’s and producer’s championships;
- The 1987 Roush IMSA Mustang GTO that received the Daytona 24-hour race;
- And the 1997 Mustang Cobra Trans-Am that claimed the SCCA Trans-Am season with 11 consecutive victories.
The Ford Multimatic Motorsports group will enter the Mustang GT3 IMSA in its first race subsequent month, the Motul Course de Monterey Powered by Hyundai N at Weathertech Raceway Laguna Seca. The Champion Spirit Livery will then fly to Detroit for the Detroit Grand Prix. After that, the group will convert to its customary livery from Sahlen’s Six Hours of the Glen in June till the top of the season.
