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Welcome, everyone, to the Ford GT Mk II. Revealed today at the Goodwood Festival of Speed, it"s a track-only supercar "engineered independently of race series rules, regulations and limitations". Ford will build 45 of these things, and charge $1.2million for the privilege of owning one. Like the existing road and race cars, the Mk II was co-developed by Ford and Multimatic. The latter"s Chief Technical Officer Larry Holt explains why it"s a thing: "The road car is obviously limited by the many global homologation requirements that it must comply with, and the race car suffers from the restriction of the dreaded Balance of Performance, resulting in it being 150 horsepower down to the road car. The Mk II answers the regularly asked question of how would the car perform with all the limitations lifted." Ford"s Chief Product Development Officer Hau Thai-Tang says the Mk II is "the closest GT owners can get to the 2016 Le Mans-winning performance and exhilarating feeling of crossing the finish line in the Ford GT race car", from which the Mk II borrows some components and much know-how. This year"s Le Mans was the GT"s last the official programme ends after the last round of the IMSA season in October, though amateur teams may run them further down the line.
Date written: 4 Jul 2019
More of this article on the Top gear website
ID: 16217
Welcome, everyone, to the Ford GT Mk II. Revealed today at the Goodwood Festival of Speed, it"s a track-only supercar "engineered independently of race series rules, regulations and limitations". Ford will build 45 of these things, and charge $1.2million for the privilege of owning one. Like the existing road and race cars, the Mk II was co-developed by Ford and Multimatic. The latter"s Chief Technical Officer Larry Holt explains why it"s a thing: "The road car is obviously limited by the many global homologation requirements that it must comply with, and the race car suffers from the restriction of the dreaded Balance of Performance, resulting in it being 150 horsepower down to the road car. The Mk II answers the regularly asked question of how would the car perform with all the limitations lifted." Ford"s Chief Product Development Officer Hau Thai-Tang says the Mk II is "the closest GT owners can get to the 2016 Le Mans-winning performance and exhilarating feeling of crossing the finish line in the Ford GT race car", from which the Mk II borrows some components and much know-how. This year"s Le Mans was the GT"s last the official programme ends after the last round of the IMSA season in October, though amateur teams may run them further down the line.
Date written: 4 Jul 2019
More of this article on the Top gear website
ID: 16217
