{"id":36755,"date":"2026-10-06T15:28:26","date_gmt":"2026-10-06T19:28:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/?p=36755"},"modified":"2026-10-06T15:28:26","modified_gmt":"2026-10-06T19:28:26","slug":"ford-wins-in-f1-expands-motorsports-footprint","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/ford-wins-in-f1-expands-motorsports-footprint","title":{"rendered":"Ford wins in F1, expands motorsports footprint"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\"><em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.detroitnews.com\/gcdn\/authoring\/authoring-images\/2026\/10\/05\/PDTN\/92099713007-ford-racing-verstappen-wins.jpg?width=660&amp;height=440&amp;fit=crop&amp;format=pjpg&amp;auto=webp\" alt=\"Red Bull Racing's Dutch driver Max Verstappen celebrates his first 2026 win following the Formula One Bahrain Grand Prix in Sepang.\" width=\"539\" height=\"359\" \/><\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"gnt_pg_img_cap\"><em>Red Bull Racing&#8217;s Dutch driver Max Verstappen celebrates his first 2026 win following the Formula One Bahrain Grand Prix in Sepang.<\/em><\/div>\n<p><em>LILLIAN SUWANRUMPHA, AFP Via Getty Images<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\"><em>Braselton, Georgia<\/em> \u2014 Red Bull Ford Powertrains won its first Formula One race Sunday, Oct. 4, in Sepang, Malaysia, just 16 races into their technical partnership. At Silverstone in England, the Ford Hypercar completed its second track test as the team aims to win the 24 Hours of Le Mans for the first time since GT40s dominated the French circuit 60 years ago.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">And here at Petit Le Mans on Saturday, Oct. 3, two Mustang GT3 race cars (dressed in a special commemorative 1901 tribute livery to 125 years of Ford racing) battled for the IMSA Weathertech Sportscar series championship. But that\u2019s still not enough to satisfy Ford\u2019s global racing ambitions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">The Dearborn-based automaker declared over the weekend that it will enter the World Rally Championship for the first time since 2012. The bombshell announcement came as Ford plans to coordinate the WRC car with the launch of <a class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\" href=\"https:\/\/www.detroitnews.com\/story\/business\/autos\/ford\/2026\/05\/18\/ford-europe-bronco-product-vehicles-ev-2029\/90141955007\/\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\">five new production models for Europe by 2026<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.detroitnews.com\/story\/business\/autos\/ford\/2026\/10\/05\/ford-wins-f1-race-makes-major-move-into-new-series-heres-how\/92099692007\/\">Read full article here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Red Bull Racing&#8217;s Dutch driver Max Verstappen celebrates his first 2026 win following the Formula One Bahrain Grand Prix in Sepang. LILLIAN SUWANRUMPHA, AFP Via Getty Images Braselton, Georgia \u2014 Red Bull Ford Powertrains won its first Formula One race Sunday, Oct. 4, in Sepang, Malaysia, just 16 races into their technical partnership. At Silverstone [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,87],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36755"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36755"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36755\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36756,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36755\/revisions\/36756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}