As predicted by Sportscar365 about a week ago, there will be three Ford Chip Ganassi Racing Ford GTs competing at this month’s 65th Mobil 1 Twelve Hours of Sebring.
Between the two U.S.-based entries run out of Ganassi’s headquarters in Indianapolis and the two U.K.-based ones for the FIA World Endurance Championship run by Multimatic, there have been four Ford GTs at each of the last two 24-hour races in Le Mans and Daytona, both of which Ford has won with the trio of Joey Hand, Dirk Mueller and Sebastien Bourdais.
That trio continues in the team’s No. 66 car, with Scott Dixon again joining Richard Westbrook and Ryan Briscoe in the No. 67 and the same No. 68 crew of Olivier Pla, Stefan Muecke and Billy Johnson continuing in a third car, set to be run by the WEC team.
“We wish we could send all four cars like we did at the Rolex 24 At Daytona, but the WEC cars will already be prepped for The Prologue test at Monza and the first race at Silverstone,” said Dave Pericak, global director, Ford Performance. “Even though it’s impossible to bring all of our Ford GTs, we didn’t want to see this important opportunity to continue our cross-development pass us by.”
Ford won overall at Sebring with its engine in the back of Ganassi’s Riley DP in 2014 with Scott Pruett, Memo Rojas and Marino Franchitti driving.
A win this month would see Ford hold the Le Mans, Daytona and Sebring titles in class all at once, a feat Corvette Racing achieved in 2015 and also into 2016.