Superstar Ford GT Racecar Drivers to Greet Fans at Dubai International Motor Show on Stopover Ahead of Season- Ending Bahrain Race
Ford continues take out all the stops this motor program season, with its Ford GT racing chauffeurs set for a stay on the Ford stand at following week's Dubai International Electric motor Show.
Ahead of the last race of 2017 in the FIA World Stamina Championship (WEC) season, the 6 Hours of Bahrain, vehicle drivers of the # 67 GT, Andy Priaulx and Harry Tincknell of the Ford Chip Ganassi Racing group will certainly get on hand to welcome fans of Ford on the evening of November 14 up until 8pm. The dynamic duo are fresh off the back of massive win at the 6 Hrs of Shanghai, the penultimate round of the WEC.
" We're delighted that the elite drivers of Ford Chip Ganassi Competing, pilots of our Ford GT supercar in the FIA World Stamina Champion, will certainly take time out of their strenuous timetable to rub shoulders with racing fans, and fans of Ford alike, at the Dubai International Motor Show," claimed Jacques Brent, president, Ford Middle East and Africa.
" Their presence on the Ford stand is a plain suggestion and graph of the link in between pure-bred racetrack performance, and the road-ready production
automobiles in the Ford line-up." In creating the high efficiency Ford GT, the pioneers behind the supercar made it notonly to win races, but likewise to work as a test bed for brand-new technologies and ideas for future cars throughout Ford's line-up.
The 2005 Ford GT, for instance, included a lightweight aluminium alloy body that helped minimize weight to enhance performance. Lessons picked up from its production brought about the innovative use high-strength aluminium alloy in today's Ford F-Series pickup and the brand new Ford Exploration full-size SUV - shedding a good deal of weight, while also enhancing capacity, performance and fuel efficiency.
GT's role as an innovation test bed appears throughout the supercar, with some
technologies, such as carbon fibre light-weighting, acting as longer-term possibilities, while others, such as the 12-inch customisable all-digital tool collection similar to that in the supercar, which is already available in the 2018 Ford Mustang.
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The Ford Chip Ganassi Competing team will certainly get on the Ford stand at the Dubai International Motor Show on November 14 until 8pm, greeting followers and authorizing autographs, before jetting off to Bahrain for the last race of the WEC period, which takes place on November 18.
