New-generation Ford Mustang racer teased

Ford has continued its run of 2023 Ford Mustang audio teasers, this time posting a 15-second sound clip of what can only be a racing version of the new S650-series pony car to the Ford Performance Facebook page… and Aussie motorsport fans will likely approve.

Released as part of ‘The Stampede’ build-up to the world debut of the new Ford Mustang in Detroit next Wednesday (September 14), the audio will sound instantly familiar to anyone who follows the local Supercars championship, with the unmistakeable whine and lightning-fast changes of a sequential racing box breaking up the roaring V8 note.

Said V8 hardly sounds stock either, both in terms of its general rawness and the way it both builds and loses revs either side of a gear change.

We already know the next-generation Mustang will be ready for the new Gen3 era of the Supercars Championship – starting March 10, 2023, in Newcastle – in which it will face the ‘new’ Chevrolet Camaro.

The Mustang’s Supercars debut will be the first home-soil exposure Aussies will have to the new pony car and, as such, it will likely stir up quite the fanfare and anticipation for the showroom version’s market launch in the second half of next year – especially if it does well on track.

Of course, there is a real chance the audio clip was taken from the previously teased Ford Mustang GT3 or some other high-level Mustang racer, but with 2023 fast approaching and the reveal of the production S650 now less than a week away, we won’t have to wait long to find out.

The new production Mustang is widely anticipated to be underpinned on an updated version of the current model’s rear-drive platform and retain the familiar four-cylinder and V8 powertrains, albeit enhanced and uprated.

Latest reports out of the US and recent teasers have suggested the core line-up will be crowned by a new 373kW flagship which we expect to carry the just-previewed ‘GT Performance’ moniker.

Transmission duties will be handled across the board by the current six-speed manual and 10-speed automatic pairing, with drive continuing to be shipped exclusively to the rear wheels.

Just like its platform and powertrains, the new Mustang’s styling is also tipped to be evolutionary rather than revolutionary, but at least this time around you’ll more easily be able to tell the V8s apart from the inline fours (beyond the badging).