Iconic team reveals 'world-first' Gen3 Mustang

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The Shell V-Power Racing Team has unveiled its revamped Gen3 Ford Mustang GT up of adjacent month's Supercars Championship.

The determination to the seventh-generation Ford Mustang and brand-new Chevrolet Camaro (to regenerate the Holden Commodore) successful 2023, brings with it caller method regulations to promote person racing.

Ten Ford Mustangs and 15 Camaros volition marque up the grid this year.

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Speaking connected Nine's Today, operator Will Davison described the changes arsenic the biggest overhaul of the bid successful decades.

"It's a monolithic twelvemonth ahead," helium said.

"It's the biggest alteration successful the class successful 30 years.

"It's a wholly antithetic method bundle we person connected the cars, they look perfectly sensational.

"We've got antithetic production-based engines successful the cars truthful they are going to beryllium a fistful for the drivers - they're going to beryllium moving astir a batch more.

"Everyone has the aforesaid accidental [to instrumentality retired the title], the cars are each precise akin successful build. So, we've got a batch to larn this adjacent period earlier the archetypal race, but the racing this twelvemonth is going to beryllium unpredictable and a immense challenge."

Racing fable and squad co-owner Dick Johnson was astir intrigued to spot the changes successful the downforce and aerodynamics of the cars play retired connected the track.

"It's going to beryllium precise antithetic and it's going to beryllium unpredictable for the commencement of the season, astatine least, arsenic these cars are marque new, astir of the guys haven't adjacent driven 1 yet," helium said.

"It'll be absorbing with little aerodynamic assistance - a batch comes down to the operator itself and we'll conscionable see.

"I deliberation the pick volition interval to the apical and hopefully we've got each the cream."

Unveiling the car, Davison observed the revitalised look of the team's iconic livery and its greater resemblance to the roadworthy car.

"It's refined what is already a beauteous livery, a celebrated livery," helium said.

"You tin besides spot it truly resembles the roadworthy car.

"Not 1 portion of this car is the aforesaid arsenic past year's truthful it looks bully but it's clip to get into it time starting with our testing.

"This exemplary (Mustang) has not adjacent been released successful the US yet, truthful this volition beryllium the archetypal time, anyplace successful the world, that this exemplary mustang gets its archetypal showing," added Johnson.

The archetypal round of the 2023 Supercars Championship kicks disconnected successful Newcastle from March 10-12.

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