Ford GT demo at Bathurst

[GTMOND]

https://www.motorsport.com/v8superca...s/3179170/amp/

Would love to see it do a couple laps, but I will be working.

[Vesper Martini]

Should be used to promote Ecoboost, that thing has serious power!

[DJM83]

This would be epic to see.

[sgt_doofey]

Anybody know what day(s) it'll be out on the track? I'll have to make sure I have a good spot to see it.

[GTLEGEND]

Oct 3-6

[DASTIG]

Originally Posted by sgt_doofey

Anybody know what day(s) it'll be out on the track? I'll have to make sure I have a good spot to see it.

Track schedule received today says the following times for Demonstration, assuming it will include this car. It does say subject to change so check website closer to the date.
Friday 5th at 9:45 for 25mins and 5:15 for 5mins
Saturday 6th at 4:45 for 5 mins

Would love to see a FordGt car race at the 12 hour

[FERG_51]

Maybe this thing would help Scotty beat the Red Bulls.

[solarite_guy]

Originally Posted by Bevsta007

Should be used to promote Ecoboost, that thing has serious power!

IIRC, they pulled power out of it to meet FIA spec.

[Wretched]

Originally Posted by solarite_guy

IIRC, they pulled power out of it to meet FIA spec.

Yep, part of BOP.
The road version has far more HP.

[solarite_guy]

The FIA race version is still a very nice and has it's own form of high end uniqueness.

This short promotional vid is a few years old and shows dated packaging.



This link has some pretty nice info and photos. Unfortunately I can not link to them, so here is the link to the page.

It is easy to jump to other engines from the Roush Yates stable too.

This is all more up to date:

https://roushyates.com/engines/ford-...6-race-engine/

[Bossxr8]

Originally Posted by DASTIG

Track schedule received today says the following times for Demonstration, assuming it will include this car. It does say subject to change so check website closer to the date.
Friday 5th at 9:45 for 25mins and 5:15 for 5mins
Saturday 6th at 4:45 for 5 mins

Would love to see a FordGt car race at the 12 hour

It's not built to GT3 specs. I wonder what would be required to bring it to GT3 spec though?

It's kind of suprising they didn't make some to GT3 specs.

[Vesper Martini]

Am I correct the 2005 Model was GT3 spec?

[Nikked]

Matech (i think) built GT3 Spec "retro" GT's. I think there were a few others too.

[Bossxr8]

Originally Posted by Bevsta007

Am I correct the 2005 Model was GT3 spec?

Yeah I do recall the older Ford GT had a few race as GT3's, but that was not a factory effort.

As said above it was Matech.

[CoupeKing]

[Nikked]

Poor Briscoe was a milkshake in that thing, bathurst has never looked so bumpy lol

[Mercury Bullet]

Torsion bars ftw.

Ryan Briscoe was interviewed and said the car was a show car, not one of the racers and had no setup whatsoever. He went on to say that because of that it wasn't being pushed.