Luke

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Quote from Ford Racing global director Mark Rushbrook: "Part of the reason we are doing Hypercar, it is for the overall win at Le Mans, given our history there, but it's also to be able to race as a factory in WEC because we can't do that with the Mustang. But we can do that in IMSA with the Mustang. That's why the Hypercar program is here in WEC. When we look at IMSA, we've got so much presence there already. If you look two of the last race weekends, both Laguna and Sebring, we had Mustang GT3s, we had two factory cars, two customer cars. We had Mustang GT4s, I think seven or eight in the race, and we had Mustang Challenge both of those weekends with around 20 cars. We had 32 Mustangs racing in three different series and races through the weekend. I don't know if we need more Ford presence there than that, and we're able to do it as a factory there. As it stands right now, we love IMSA, it's a wonderful series with great tracks, great competitors. But we don't see as much need to go there with Hypercar as we need it here in WEC.”
Grello at Daytona
1964 12 Hours of Sebring poster, designed by Chuck Schulz