In 2010, Swiss workforce Matech Competitors launched an FIA GT1 racing model of the Ford GT supercar (the one from the 2005 and 2006 mannequin years, that’s). Now two firms are partnering to construct a road-going model referred to as the Lynx GT1.
Texas-based Lynx Motors introduced Thursday in a press launch that it plans to promote 28 examples of the GT1, and they are going to be constructed on the Zionsville, Indiana, store of Graham Rahal Efficiency, the dealership and tuner owned by IndyCar driver Graham Rahal.
Lynx Motors Ford GT1
Not like the Le Mans-winning GT40 that impressed it, and the successor GT supercar that gained its class on the French endurance race in 2016, the 2005 Ford GT was by no means supposed to race. However after manufacturing ended, Matech Competitors constructed some vehicles to run within the FIA GT1 World Championship, which launched in 2010 and likewise featured the Audi R8, Lamborghini Murciélago, and Nissan GT-R.
The sequence solely lasted for 3 seasons, and the Ford GT did not produce any memorable outcomes throughout that point, however it ought to make for a formidable highway automobile. Lynx Motors guarantees to hold over the race automobile’s widened carbon-fiber bodywork and aerodynamic parts from Matech.
Every of the roadgoing Lynx GT1s will use a Ford GT chassis that Matech initially purchased for its race vehicles. The extra 28 chassis weren’t a part of the revived GT’s estimated 4,038-car manufacturing run. The engine will probably be axxxxx GT’s supercharged 5.4-liter V-8, which made 550 hp in inventory type, to greater than 1,200. Lynx will pair it with a Ricardo 6-speed guide transmission. As well as, three of the unique racing engines can be found. These are twin-turbo 7.0-liter V-8s making 1,400-1,500 hp that’s despatched to the rear wheels by way of a Sadev 6-speed sequential gearbox.
The vehicles proven listed here are already constructed variations based mostly on the race automobile, and they’re on the market individually. The Lynx web site lists the Gulf Racing livery at $1.7 million. Lynx’s Jeff Jennings instructed Motor Authority that the GT1 will begin at $1.2 million and vary as much as $1.7 million relying on based mostly on how particular person vehicles are specced. As an example, a base automobile will lack the large rear spoiler and dive planes. The vehicles will include Indiana VINs.
Lynx Motors Ford GT1
Lynx offered the above rendering of the inside, which options analog gauges, a shifter mounted lifeless heart as an alternative of canted towards the driving force, and a cellphone charging pad full with Apple CarPlay within the heart of the sprint. Consumers will be capable to select seats from Recaro, Sparco, and Manthey Racing, and so they’ll decide between three- and five-point harnesses. Jennings stated consumers will be capable to select their inside colours, in addition to their very own gauges and trim.
Jennings stated two of the manufacturing run have been bought, and the construct time ought to take eight months. He famous that every of the 28 vehicles will probably be one in all one in the way it’s specced.
—Senior Editor Kirk Bell contributed to this report.
