There are six Mustangs in the field, with two entries from DJR Team Penske and four from Tickford Racing, including 23Red Racing’s customer effort. Much of the focus has been on the car’s aerodynamic package that was set following runway testing between all three cars last December, measuring them for downforce and drag. It worked with DJR Team Penske, which took over from Tickford as Ford’s official homologation team for the Mustang and which has played a lead role in developing the new Mustang to adapt the body to the control Supercars chassis. The Mustang project, which becomes the first two-door car on the Supercars grid, pitted against the ZB Commodore that debuted in 2018 and Nissan’s Altima, now in its seventh year, was led by Ford Performance in Detroit utilising its in-house Computational Fluid Dynamics capabilities. It has replaced the FG X Falcon as Ford’s racing weapon in Australia the Falcon nameplate saying goodbye to Supercars two years after local manufacturing ended. However, under a deal signed in March last year, the car manufacturer officially returned to the series, having given both its blessing and technological firepower to the Mustang’s development.
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He crossed the line with a 12.9651-second advantage, as Red Bull Holden Racing Team pair Jamie Whincup and Shane van Gisbergen rounded out the podium.įord had withdrawn from the Australian series at the end of 2015 as it worked through the process of shutting down local manufacturing the following year.
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The Shell V-Power Racing driver gave the incoming model the best possible introduction, leading from start to finish in the opening leg of the Superloop Adelaide 500. Ford’s new Mustang Supercar claimed a commanding victory in its very first race driven by defending champion Scott McLaughlin. Admittedly after only one race on 2 March, the opening round of the Virgin Australia Supercars Championship, but it came, it saw and now it has conquered. But then, at least in Australia, it’s rather been there before.It is finally here. So clearly, racing’s going to be a big deal for the Mustang in 2023. The point we’re trying to reach is that the rivalry still remains today: 60 years on, Ford and Chevrolet are still battling it out around Australia’s searingly hot race tracks – they’ve just gone back to using seriously hotted-up Mustangs and Camaros. And had little Alfas, Porsches and Minis snapping at their heels, but that might be beside the point at the moment. But Ford and GM’s racing rivalry didn’t start with Falcons and Commodores back in the early days in the Sixties and Seventies, Mustangs raced Camaros. Now, if you remember your V8 Supercars, you might wonder what’s become of the old Ford-Holden rivalry. And catch snippets of how it sounds, in between what we’re going to be charitable and call ‘anecdotes’. For any number of reasons, he didn’t exactly cane it, but – if you can put up with the ‘QUICK MENTION THE SPONSORS AGAIN’ that passes for motorsport commentary in Australia, you can see it in action. And fittingly enough, DJ was the first to take the Mustang up around Mount Panorama for its debut, just ahead of this year’s Bathurst 1000 and a few months out from its 2023 racing debut.
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