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Ford’s global CEO, Jim Farley, took TV talk show host Jimmy Fallon on a hot lap in an Australian V8 Supercar version of the Ford Mustang.
The global CEO of Ford, Jim Farley, returned to the wheel of a V8 Supercar and took Jimmy Fallon – host of The Tonight Show in the USA – for a wild ride around a test track in Detroit.
“How dangerous is this?”, Fallon asked before the trip began.
“Amazing. Aaaarggghhh. Oh my god,” he shouted from the passenger seat of the howling V8 race car.
“Wow. My palms are sweating. That was crazy,” Mr Fallon said as he fell to the ground after the ride.
The thrill ride is not as scary as it looks, as Mr Farley is a successful novice racer who competes in his own classic Ford GT40.
He has also driven a V8 Supercar several times, even showing the Mustang at the Goodwood Festival of Speed in the UK in 2021.
The new Mustang will be used as a ‘Gen3’ racer when V8 Supercars becomes a Ford Mustang-versus-Chevrolet Camaro competition next year.
The hot-lap car is the older S550 series and was never raced in Australia before being sent to the USA in 2015 for display and demonstration work.
Apart from the Goodwood run in Britain, Mr Farley had previously driven it on the Detroit test track in a shakedown ahead of the Festival of Speed.
Mr Farley also made a new V8 Supercars connection last month when he met Cam Waters, who finished second in a Ford Mustang in this year’s Australian championship, when they were both taking a refresher course with a well-known British racing driver trainer – Rob Wilson – at Goodwood in the UK.
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