Ford is now in its second season
of its new LMGTE program with the Ford GT and Chip
Ganassi Racing, which is exactly the time that the American
manufacturer announced that would put total focus in the factory run,
and after this the possibility of customer programs may become a
reality.
Ford Performance's Dave Pericak
confirmed the initial factory-only effort and opened the door for
possible customers, which would be as early as 2018, but with only a
limited number of cars being made while prices and support would need
to be clarified, according to Sportscar365.
The
only thing that seems to be a barrier to raise the interest of the
program is the mandated rule in LMGTE-Am
to run one-year old cars, as Ford intends to bring an Evo kit to the
Ford GT, and trying to deal with support for cars with slightly
different specs would be the problem for them, specially considering
the LMGTE-Am in FIA WEC
is somehow an outsider compared to the LMGTE-Pro
class and IMSA's GTLM
class.
At the
moment the LMGTE-Am class counts with the Corvette C7R GTE, Ferrari
488 GTE and the upgraded Aston Martin V8 Vantage GTE. It is
understood that Porsche is about to announce the customer program
structure for 2018 around its new 911 RSR GTE.
PHOTO: Ford Performance
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