2021 Ford GT Heritage Edition celebrates 1966 Daytona victory

Ford pulled the handles off the 2021 Ford GT Heritage Edition this weekend, influenced by the 1966 24 Hours of Daytona-profitable GT40 Mk. II pushed by Ken Miles and Lloyd Ruby. Even casual motorsports followers very likely don’t forget that Ford’s GT method defeated the almighty Ferrari at Le Mans that year, but the 24-hour Daytona race was just as critical of a milestone in the car’s record.

The 2021 Heritage Edition is a tribute to the race-profitable car, painted in Frozen White with asymmetrical black (in this modern-day situation, exposed carbon fiber) and pink accents. The variety 98 is emblazoned across the doors, and a single-piece Heritage Gold 20-inch forged-aluminum wheels allow pink Brembo monoblock brake calipers peek by means of. Purple and black Alcantara material handles substantially of the inside, which include the seats and steering wheel. A Heritage Update Package provides carbon fiber wheels with gloss pink interior accent barrel and carbon fiber doorway panels.

Earlier Heritage Edition Ford GT’s honored the black-and-silver GT40 Mark II that received at Le Mans in 1966 pushed by Bruce McLaren and Chris Amon, the Le Mans-profitable #one Ford GT40 Mark IV from 1967 pushed by Dan Gurney and A.J. Foyt, and the legendary Gulf livery of the 1968 Le Mans winner from the JW Automotive Engineering workforce.

In addition to the Heritage Edition, Ford also introduced a customizable Studio Selection graphics bundle for the 2021 GT. “The mixture of the stripes and accents invokes the emotion of pace and attracts your eye to some of the most distinguished options of the GT,” suggests Garen Nicoghosian, style head at Multimatic, the business that assembles the GT for Ford. “The fuselage, buttresses and signature options on the headlights supply visual anchors for the graphics, guiding your eye across the car.”

Only forty Studio Selection GTs are planned for the 2021 and 2022 model many years. See the Heritage Edition in the gallery up higher than, and a variety of feasible Studio Selection schemes just underneath.