Ford Australia to return to [V8] Supercars in 2019 with Ford Mustang

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DJR Team Penske and Tickford Racing will race Ford Mustangs in the 2019 Virgin Australia Supercars Championship, Ford Australia has announced.
Ford has confirmed its return to active involvement in the championship alongside the launch of its Ford Performance brand in Australia.
The Blue Oval withdrew its support from Supercars racing following the homologation of the Ford Falcon FG X in late 2014.
Teams have continued to race the FG X – for which road car production ended in 2016 – while working to achieve sign-off from Ford on the Mustang.
Two-door cars are eligible for Supercars under the Gen2 rules that recently saw Holden homologate its hatchback Commodore ZB.
Ford teams will continue to run their existing 5.0 litre V8 engines in their Mustangs, for which the body must be fitted over the control Supercars chassis.
Ford Australia President and CEO, Graeme Whickman, says American arm Ford Performance is already working with DJR Team Penske and Tickford on developing the race car.
Teams will race the 2018 model Mustang, shown in Australia for the first time at today’s Melbourne launch.

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This announcement follows Holden homologating the ZB Commodore (re-badged Opel Insignia) for competition in the Supercars this year. The only other cars being run this year are the Nissan Altima by Nissan Motorsport, and ageing FG X Falcons by privateers.

The last time the Mustang competed at the highest level of Australian touring car racing was in the Group A era of the eighties, with the Foxbody Mustang GT. Before then, Allan Moffat famously raced a Boss 302 Mustang in Group C Improved Production in the late sixties and early seventies.

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Are you Morgen's swore enemy?

[Mighty AU]

no lol. I’m not whoever it was on oldpunch who had the Jeremy Clarkson profile picture and always rambled on about old American V8s. My dream car is a four-cylinder Alfa Romeo Giulietta. I have nothing against electric cars and I would contemplate one. Although I will admit that I dislike Tesla because of their apparent shadiness behind closed doors, Musk not being the superhero that the Internet makes him out to be, and Tesla cars having relatively poor build quality and very gaudy styling in a stereotypically American way.

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You'd be thinking of TestECull I think.

Bit tired of V8 supercars myself, it's all a bit tepid and stale. Dad and I still watch every race but really only for one or two guys and for the crashes. It's not as bad as F1 with all the over regulation and extreme commercialization, but it's lost a lot of it's charm.

You picked a fine time to leave me loose wheel.