It Looks Like Ford’s Hypercar Might Be A Mustang
The Ford Mustang is nearly everywhere in motorsports these days.
It’s the basis for Fords NASCAR cars, NHRA drag racing cars, Formula Drift cars, Australian Supercar cars and GT3/GT4 cars. It even has its own Mustang Challenge series for the competition-prepped Dark Horse R.
Ford has been coalescing its street performance efforts around the Mustang brand and it looks like that’s might include the highest level of sports car racing.
Ford is entering the World Endurance Championship’s Hypercar prototype class in 2027 with an eye on winning both the series title and the 24 Hours of Le Mans. It hasn’t revealed much about the program yet, including what the car will look like, but it might have just let slip what it will be called.
A new job listing for a Ford Racing communications position includes a detailed list of what the role’s duties will be. Among them are communications for its various racing endeavors, like the new powertrain collaboration with Red Bull in Formula 1 and “Ford’s Sports Car racing with Mustang including WEC, IMSA, Hypercar, NASCAR, Australian Supercars, GT3, GT4 and Dark Horse R.” The wording appears to place the Hypercar program under the Mustang banner.
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Most of the current Hypercars don’t have production counterparts, but Aston Martin’s is fashioned after the Valkyrie and Ferrari sells a track day customer version its entry called the 499P Modificata for around $6 million.
The listing is all there is on the topic at this moment, however, and a Ford Racing spokesman told American Cars And Racing: “we have not made any announcements of the name for Hypercar as yet.”
That could change by Jan. 15 when Ford Racing holds its 2026 season kick-off event in Detroit. Along with previews of its various teams, Ford will be offering a sneak peek at a new sports car. During a recent appearance on The GAS podcast, Ford Racing Global Director Mark Rushbrook wouldn’t spill the beans on the car, but did say it will have a direct link to its motorsports efforts.
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“We’re here to race, but we’ve got to make sure it makes sense as a business, that we’re making our products better, that’s what we intend to show on Jan. 15 is product that’s been made better by the racing that we do, so that it’s directly seen, felt, experienced by the customers, in terms of what they buy and take home and put in their driveway and garage,” Rushbrook said.
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While the new car could end up being a more extreme version of the Mustang GTD, which is based on the GT3 cars, don’t count out a street legal hypercar. Ford shocked the automotive world in 2016 with the reveal of the second generation Ford GT that celebrated the 50th anniversary of Ford’s 1966 Le Mans win, so a 60th anniversary present to itself isn’t out of the question. And if history is any guide, the last time Ford had a prototype racing car in the 1980s it was called the Mustang GTP.