Ford Efficiency is preserving itself busy this 12 months. As 2024 will get underway, the Blue Oval’s motorsport outfit has some thrilling new stuff to share with its “Season Launch” occasion. At 7 PM ET, the automaker will showcase “A brand new golden age of Ford motorsports,” highlighting the corporate’s bold international racing program. You’ll be able to watch the livestream beneath.
This 12 months, Ford can be racing in varied sequence and occasions, battling for podiums and factors with the brand new Mustang and different Ford automobiles on six of the world’s seven continents. It will compete on tracks like Le Mans and Interlagos, the Dakar trails, and extra. The automaker revealed its new NASCAR Cup Collection Darkish Horse Mustang in November, and it’ll additionally race on this 12 months’s 24 Hours of Le Mans with the Mustang GT3.
Ford will probably exhibit the Switchgear, a rugged Raptor-like F-150 Lightning pickup revealed earlier right now with widened fenders, large wheels, long-travel suspension, and Ford Efficiency branding on the hood.
The corporate additionally teased a Raptor-branded race truck to compete in subsequent 12 months’s Dakar rally. Ford is already racing with the Ranger on this 12 months’s occasion, and Ford will take what it learns this 12 months to enhance its possibilities of an outright win in 2025.
Ford introduced six racing variations of the Mustang when it revealed the brand new mannequin in 2022. The lineup consists of two Mustang Darkish Horse variants – S and R, a GT4, the NASCAR competitor, and extra, lots of which can hit the observe for the primary time in 2024. The Blue Oval additionally introduced in 2023 that it will return to System 1 with Pink Bull Racing, so Ford might have lots to spotlight.
Ford has usually emphasised its curiosity in motorsports over the previous couple of years, however what we’ll see on the occasion continues to be unclear. Ford Efficiency might share one thing new and thrilling, so tune in later tonight to catch all of the information.
The Ford Efficiency Season Launch Occasion begins at 7 PM Japanese Time.