A Matter of Time. Can the Le Mans Mustangs Win in Japan?

They’ve Come Very Close. So Can the Le Mans Ford Mustangs Win in Japan?

The Le Mans Ford Mustangs have delivered a memorable LMGT3 World Endurance Championship effort so far this season. So, there’s a every chance that they will win in Japan this weekend. A milestone round, Sunday’s Fuji 6 Hour is also the 100th ever World Endurance Championship race, which would be quite a feather in the old Pony Car cap.

Having led literally all the way in their home Lone Star 6 Hours in Austin, Texas earlier in September, only a cruel roll of the dice prevented the Mustangs from taking a memorable first victory. In what surely seemed a likely victory, just a few laps from the checker, Ben Barker, Ben Tuck and Bernardo Sousa were among several cars to make a wrong tire choice.

Le Mans Mustangs Have Shown Winning Form

The result? Well, they ultimately came home seventh in LMGT3 in the number 77 Ford Mustang GT3 LM. Giammarco Levorato, Stefano Gattuso and Dennis Olsen’s 88 car, which had run third just laps before, came in ninth. It could well have been very different. But as they often say, that’s just racing!

Texas wasn’t the Mustangs’ only strong LM GT3 showing this year. They came home a very close second and third behind the winning Ferrari at the Spa Francorchamps race in Belgium. And the team has shown consistent and improving pace right through the Mustang’s second season on the WEC.

So, the Le Mans Ford Mustang GT3 LMs cannot be too far from that elusive maiden success. Is it, as they say in the classics, just a matter of time…?

Images: Proton Competition/FIA WEC

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