2023 Ford Mustang GT3 Comes to Project Motor Racing

13. November 2025

Detroit’s Loud Love Letter To The Gods Of Thunder

Here’s a fun question. What’s the world’s best-selling coupé? Did you say the Ford Mustang? Okay, here’s another one: When was the last time customer teams in the US, Australia and Europe could run a Mustang in top-level motorsport? (You’ll need to wait until the end to find that one out!)

All of which is to say—when Ford decided to go GT3 racing and took their bestseller pony and weaponised it for a bar brawl, teams around the world sat up and paid attention (and then paid some cash, too).

Now it’s yours to race in Project Motor Racing.

Did Someone Say Goodwood Burnout?

Ford’s plan to enter the world of international GT racing surfaced in June 2023, when the boys from Dearborn wheeled a GT3 mule onto the Le Mans start-finish straight during the centenary celebrations and confirmed dreams and rivals’ nightmares: a factory return to La Sarthe for 2024 and beyond was now in the works.

A month later, Harry Tincknell let the car off its leash at the Goodwood Festival of Speed, the V8 detonating up the hill.

Behind the tyre smoke and Instagram clips, though, lay the reality: 9 months of pounding Sebring’s rough-and-ready concrete in private testing that began in March 2023.

Heart: 5.4L Bruiser From M-Sport

Under the carbon bonnet sits a stroked, dry-sumped evolution of the fourth-gen Coyote V8, stamped out to 5,380 cc and screwed together by M-Sport in Cumbria. The FIA BoP (restrictors or electronically managed torque sensors) keeps peak at around 550 bhp, but the RPM will max out at 8k which is where you want this baby to be—mostly because it’s the ideal time to hear that howl road-car owners spend aftermarket fortunes chasing.

One of the delights of GT3 is the sheer difference in sounds, and after one lap, you’ll know that Mustang is coming from a mile off. But it sounds ever better behind the wheel in Project Motor Racing.

Soul: A Little … Too Much Breakfast Burrito?

Ford gave the GT3 a modular diffuser and boot-lid with the idea being that customer teams could develop quick fixes during endurance races, including whole-part swaps.

Racing: One Wild Season

• Daytona 2024—–Baptism of fire

Ford Multimatic locked out the GTD Pro front row, #64 on pole, but diffuser dramas and night-time contact robbed them of a debut podium.

• VIR 2024—First pole position by a Proton car in GTD
• Rolex 24 2025—Redemption

Twelve months of tweaks paid off as Olsen, Mies and Vervisch steered the #65 Mustang GT3 to outright GTD Pro victory, with the sister #64 completing the podium.

• Detroit 2025—Welcome Home!

Seb Priaulx put the #64 on pole on the Detroit street-course and Rockenfeller converted, leading 55 of 81 laps for a Motor City win that rattled GM’s windows across the river.

Why You Want A Ford Mustang GT3 In Project Motor Racing

Ford wanted a car it could sell on Monday and enter at Le Mans on Sunday. The GT3’s M-Sport built motor shares block geometry with showroom Coyotes, the aero is recycled flax and carbon composite, and the whole package has already drawn elite-level teams to IMSA into the “Blue-Oval” orbit.

Slip past 7,500 RPM, watch the steering wheel LEDs turn disco-purple, and remember this is the first Mustang that can chase trophies on both sides of the Atlantic since (you made it this far?!) Ford’s Trans-Am glory days.

The pony car just grew fangs.

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