Ford Racing

In fact, I'm leaving to go to Baja 1000 testing soon after this.

Uh, and so, um, you know, just bringing my other passion into the fold and, you know, frankly, creating an entry-level enthusiast ecosystem inside of, you know, the Ford offerings, you know? And, you know, my, my greatest vision is, you know, we have the entry level, you know, and we keep our spec vehicles for a little higher end, but in the Ford ecosystem, they come in, they get into Ford, they fall in love with the, you know, the entry-level product, and they stay with Ford and ultimately maybe step up to a, you know, Ford Racing product, you know?

And then you're super busy with other things, the Formula Drifting, you have a, a full team.

Tell us what else do you do.

I'm Zach Redpath.

And you are listening to You Better Win: The History of Ford Racing.

In this eight-part series, we will be diving deep into the stories that built Ford into America's race team, from the factories of Dearborn to the sands of Dakar, the streets of Le Mans, France, back to the sands [laughs] of Daytona, Florida, and everything in between.

So before we dive into exactly how this new engine changes Formula 1 forever, we need to understand how it came to be in the first place.

Ford wants to buy the entire Ferrari company-

Mm-hmm

... basically to kickstart Ford racing, and use their expertise, their staff, all of their tooling and everything, just basically rebrand Ferrari as Ford for the specific purpose of getting into racing.

Yeah.

So there's- there's- there's some money there.

So we asked Ryan, the brand manager, and, you know, he, he talked about how they wanted to bring the- the- the Dark Horse name in house, right? This is a Ford Racing developed product.

They talked about how Dark Horse customers have been asking for more power in their Mustang Dark Horse, right? Um, now there was a recent report, I think it was done by Ford Authority, that- that said the- the reason that Ford didn't call this generation the, uh, GT500 is because they- they didn't want to keep paying royalties to Shelby.

Yeah.

And I'm sure you are.

I'm going to, you know, the number 64 Ford Racing, Ben Barker and Dennis Olsen take the win.

And great

opening.

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Unfortunately, Fuji and its weather rather had its way yesterday.

We had planned for four qualifying sessions back to back.

So we were banking on that maybe being the result.

And, yeah, for us it was.

So super happy with pole position, Ford Racing, Proton, Multimatic.

We've worked really, really hard to get here.

And it's like unfortunate because like growing up the last like 10 years in New Jersey, right? Like you would see...

or blob eyes you would see hawkeyes you would see you know some of the the hatchbacks you would just see all these subarus and i feel like now they've either rotted out or the kids have crashed them and you just don't see them anymore and like it makes me jealous when i go to michigan and you see hundreds of them all over the road and when i go to colorado to see dave and you see hundreds of them everywhere and they're all alive and i'm like what happened like why why is this state so cursed and then and then like part of the problem i think is is that I can't tell you, working in Ford Performance, the amount of teenagers that just want to buy a Mustang GT and make their 400 to 500 horsepower, and they're just happy doing burnouts, and that's it.

I hate to say

it.