Since we can’t get enough of the brilliant new Ford GT around here, especially in racing guise, we bring you Ford’s latest GT video, called “The Secret Shakedown,” which contains test footage of some of the racing development process, allegedly shot about three weeks before the racing car made its official debut at Le Mans last month.
-The talking heads in the video, including Dave Pericak, director of Ford Performance, and Ford VP of product development Raj Nair, among others, don’t say much that will surprise anyone—they’ve been working on it for a long time, it goes real fast, Ford is sooooo innovative and amazing, yadda yadda yadda—but spliced in between the yammering is plenty of footage of the prototype race car pounding through corners, sounding incredible while hurtling down the straights, and looking awesome in slow motion or in panning shots in the pits.
-At the time the video was shot, which would have been mid-May by our clocks, Ford Performance’s advanced-engineering manager Mark Rushbrook stated that the development team would continue working on the car for another four months. “Then we go racing.”
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Speaking of going racing, to our knowledge, the Ford GT is still slated to make its racing debut at the Rolex 24 Hours of Daytona in January. You can kill one minute and 39 seconds of the time between now and then by watching this.
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