The Ford Mustang is lastly set to enter the IMSA SportsCar Championship, with the automobile’s first season of competitors locked in for 2024.

The Blue Oval on Friday introduced plans to develop a Mustang GT3 race automobile in partnership with Multimatic, the Canadian motorsport and engineering firm that builds Ford’s GT supercar, in addition to the more moderen Bronco DR racer.

The plan is to run a manufacturing unit workforce fielding two of the Mustang GT3s in IMSA’s GTD Professional class, that means the Mustang can be going up in opposition to race automobiles primarily based on the likes of the Aston Martin Vantage, Mercedes-Benz AMG GT, and Porsche 911. The workforce can be run by Multimatic and compete for the primary time on the 2024 24 Hours of Daytona.

The 2024 arrival date factors to the Mustang GT3 being primarily based on the redesigned Mustang, which is out testing in prototype kind and anticipated on sale in 2023 as a 2024 mannequin. The teaser shot of the race automobile might trace at some design components destined for the redesigned Mustang.

Ford additionally plans to supply the Mustang GT3 to buyer groups, that means we may see them compete in different GT3 competitions across the globe.

Ford is brief on specs however stated the automobile will characteristic a singular model of the present Mustang GT’s 5.0-liter V-8. The engine is being developed by Ford Efficiency and can be provided by M-Sport, the British motorsport and engineering firm liable for current Ford rally automobiles, together with the brand new Ford Puma-based automobile competing within the 2022 World Rally Championship.

The Mustang GT3 can even characteristic unequal size double wishbone suspension entrance and rear, a rear-mounted transaxle gearbox, carbon-fiber physique panels, and naturally an aero package deal developed to fulfill GT3 guidelines.

Joey Hand, one of many class-winning drivers in Ford’s 2016 24 Hours of Le Mans marketing campaign, will function a take a look at and improvement driver for this system, alongside his present NASCAR duties.

Ford additionally introduced on Friday that it’s also growing a brand new Mustang GT4 race automobile to exchange the present one launched in 2016. The brand new Mustang GT4, like its predecessor, can be supplied as a buyer race automobile. It is due in time for the 2023 motorsport season.