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Why Ford returned to Le Mans with GT and not Mustang.
Originally proposed to make its return stroke the twenty-four hours of Le Mans with a Mustang, not a GT Before the company's decision to secretly build the Ford GT supercar to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the triumph of Blue oval in the famous French race Ferrari Raj Nair, head of global product development at Ford, said the direction of the first business studies to develop a Mustang to participate in the race.
Ford Motor Co initially proposed to make his return to the race the twenty-four hours of Le Mans with a Mustang, not a GT.
Before the decision of the company to secretly build the Ford GT supercar to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the triumph of the Blue Oval in the famous French race Ferrari Raj Nair, head of global product development at Ford, was first led the company's management studies to develop a Mustang to participate in the race.
Nair, who is also director of Ford technology, said the Mustang racer - the name Project money code after the horse Lone Ranger - was rejected by the company's executives because of the label price - 250 000 or more changes for each rider and aerodynamics and concerns Le Mans didn t align with the values and heritage of Mustang, among others.
It was a great learning experience, but it is not proving to be the right end, Mustang doesn t need to be a Le Mans car world, Nair said hundreds of engineers and other people present at the WCX SAE International conference Wednesday Detroit to be honest, I always wanted to do it, I'm actually a little crazy actually, I'm really angry.
Nair said he felt the company underestimates the importance of the fiftieth anniversary of when Henry Ford II and Carroll Shelby created a team that beat Ferrari rival vaunted and finished 1-2-3.
After the Mustang was rejected, Nair finally began to lead a group of less than twelve people at the end of 2013 to research and design a new Ford GT without the blessing of senior managers in the Glass House, including the current fields reported CEO, Executive Chairman Bill Ford and CEO Alan Mulally.
I was just determined that we were going to, but we'll have to do it differently, Nair said, adding that he believed the team could make a small investment, complete vehicle program with the lessons learned from the project failure Mustang, including new advances in tools that could really maintain low investment costs and exceptional quality.
The tiny group, as indicated previously, awarded the title code of the Phoenix project in GT program because the vehicle was rising from the ashes.
However, before adopting the title of the Phoenix project, Nair Wednesday revealed that one employee suggested codenamed Groundhog - after 1990-3 movie Groundhog Day because he and others had tried several times resurrect the GT without success.
Nair said the GT, which was developed at the same time as a rider and vehicle street legal, was especially singularly focused to become an endurance runner.
Our map was clear this was going to be a test bed for our technologies to drive the development of that push the limits of the use of lightweight materials such as carbon fiber, which finally ended in the car, and us expand our understanding of what was possible with aerodynamics, he said.
Nair finally took each of executives who rejected the Mustang project to the secret room in the corner of Ford's Dearborn, Michigan, product development center, where the car was developed and he managed to convince them that the company could not only build a new GT, but create a runner who win Le Mans.
Ford unveiled the GT during the fifteen thousand show two of the Detroit Auto, followed by his return to competition for the Rolex twenty-four at Daytona International Speedway a year later.
The GT, after the first trials and tribulations during his return to competition, finished first, third and fourth in his first return to Le Mans in June 2016 - beating Ferrari.
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