Ford has as we speak introduced that the Ranger Raptor will sort out the SCORE Worldwide Baja 1000 – one of many hardest off-road races on the earth. It is going to be racing on a low-carbon biofuel, demonstrating the potential of those fuels in probably the most demanding environments.
Ford Efficiency labored with Australia’s Kelly Racing to construct the Baja-ready Ranger Raptor, whereas US-based Lovell Racing will race the truck on the occasion, which begins on November 18.
Lovell Racing, led by off highway racing icon Brad Lovell, is one in every of Ford Efficiency’s key off-road groups.
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“By coming into this occasion, we’re constructing on the tons of of 1000’s of kilometres of growth testing, and pushing the Ranger Raptor to new extremes,” Ford Efficiency off-road motorsports supervisor Brian Novak mentioned.
“The Baja 1000 is a demanding occasion and a widely known proving floor for off-road autos,” he added. “We’re excited to compete on this excessive occasion with Ranger Raptor.”
The Baja 1000, held on the Baja California Peninsula, is taken into account one of many world’s most prestigious off-road races, attracting opponents from across the globe desperate to tackle its miles of treacherous desert terrain, steep drops and hard climbs.
Previously, each the F-150 Raptor and Ford Bronco have efficiently raced at Baja, with a podium end and even an outright victory forming a part of a hearty historical past for Ford vehicles. This time spherical, the Ranger Raptor will run within the inventory class.
It’ll use Shell’s one-third mix of biofuel – with its mixture of ethanol and bionaphtha.
“Demonstrating low-carbon fuels in efficiency settings just like the Baja 1000 might help deliver biofuels and different clear vitality applied sciences to scale extra rapidly, and assist to make them extra out there and reasonably priced for everybody,” Ford’s world director of sustainability, compliance and homologation Cynthia Williams mentioned.
Ford is working to realize carbon neutrality globally throughout its autos, operations and provide chain no later than 2050 and to succeed in science-based interim targets by 2035.
As Ford launches electrified variations of its hottest nameplates, the corporate continues to analysis and develop various gas choices throughout all of its autos, together with efficiency racing, to offer prospects with environment friendly, low-carbon options.
Various gas autos can cut back GHG emissions in comparison with standard gas equivalents on a well-to-wheels foundation, which incorporates emissions from each producing and consuming the fuels.
