Onboard Lap Giorgio Roda Ford Mustang LMGT3 I 2024 TotalEnergies 6 Hours of Spa I FIA WEC

Watch Giorgio Roda as he completes a lap of Spa-Francorchamps circuit with the Ford Mustang LMGT3.
The FIA World Endurance Championship is the world’s premier international sportscar championship, contested over eight rounds across North America, Europe, Asia and the Middle East. With multiple cars across two categories (Hypercar and LMGT3) all on track at the same time, the WEC is a sports car extravaganza that offers action, overtakes, excitement and entertainment for fans worldwide. Watch all the WEC action live on FIAWEC.tv
2024 Calendar:
Official Prologue Qatar - February 24-25
Qatar Airways Qatar 1812KM - March 2
6 Hours of Imola - April 21
TotalEnergies 6 Hours of Spa-Francorchamps - May 11
24 Hours of Le Mans - June 15-16
Rolex 6 Hours of Sao Paulo - July 14
Lone Star Le Mans Cota - September 1
6 Hours of Fuji - September 15
Bapco Energies 8 Hours of Bahrain - November 2

[@iValkyrie46]

Man, thank you so much!! This is awesome. The telemetry are now in sync unlike much of last year's telemetries

[@warboyrb]

The sound of that beast is unreal. Too early on the throttle through Bruxelles stuffed his exit though, based on my ACC experience lol!!!

[@user06220]

love that sound

[@rickrolled7930]

The telemetry should indicate where certain aero stuff fall off the mustang.

[@mufasamufufu-rj6ti]

🤣🤣🤣

[@ponanikhoza1934]

Ah man give them a....break....sorry I am South African.

[@Dan_Minton]

Once they sort the mechanical grip on this car it will be competitive. Still , looks and sounds incredible!!!

[@_JimS]

LET IT EAT!!!!!

[@PozzaPizz]

Interesting how it has long gear ratios

[@TK4491TK]

Yeah and didn't use 6th? 🤔

[@user-pi9bh8yw9y]

@@TK4491TK it seems that these lmgt3 are a bit underpowerd compared to what SRO is using, hardly any of them would get to 6th gear on the kemmel straight

[@MissaBrevis619]

Is there any 6th gear in the gearbox? They might need it in a circuit of speed like Spa!

[@Orvieta]

Even the Ford GT went to 6th gear, this Mustang doesn't seem interested. The 6th gear activates at 270+, speeds GT3's don't even achieve at Spa.

[@Nicolas_Cage_Bees]

It's like this in ACC too. They just released it as a free DLC a couple days ago and the gear ratios are exactly like that. Evidently the explanation is that it's geared to be able run Daytona since it also competes in IMSA and they use the same regulations as WEC now. At least that's what I heard. Could be BS, IDK.

[@BboyVReck]

In project cars 2, the 6th gear in a road car is way too long too lol

[@argapadan42]

@@BboyVReck yes sure 6th gear in road car is way too long, it's set for fuel consumptions and meeting emission requirements. and so you can cruising in 100km/h in 6th gear or beyond with as low RPM as possible.

[@basedgodstrugglin]

@@OrvietaAlso the Ford GT had more freedom over gear ratios being it was in the GTE class. GT3 cars are limited by homologation to their gear clusters available for various types of tracks

[@still_guns]

Now Ford knows how to build a proper V8!

[@FAT8893]

Coyote V8 always sounds good.

[@NASCAR23XICupSeriesRacing]

@@FAT8893and it sounds similar to the garage 56 NASCAR cup car

[@ShelbysGT]

The car seems to turn in very well

[@NASCAR23XICupSeriesRacing]

I like the mustang lmgt3 is sounds a little bit similar to the garage56 NASCAR that race at Le Mans

[@JMartinni]

Is that just a random lap or the fastest (of the driver/car/GT3 class)? He's fighting the understeer of that car quite a bit.

[@iNTERS22]

Let's hope this race it will not fall apart :)

[@donidaniello]

Who is here after driving this mustang gt3 on ACC? ✋

[@luvilela1278]

I haven't, but now that yoi said I might do that, because I'm always racing with Lexus or Mercs, só thank you for the pleasant suprise

[@Nicks62999]

Prototypes hit 305 at the end of the straight while the GT3 struggle to get to 250, insane speed differences

[@red2lucas]

Reminds me of a young me

[@MustangKim]

I like super long 5th gear ratio

[@Orvieta]

Those gearbox ratios on the Mustang are really weird, pushing 250 and still no 6th, while it does almost 120 in 1st...

[@giovannibalsamo6178]

according to IMSA bop, the mustang engine revs quite higher (8200 or 8500rpm), that could be the reason

[@Orvieta]

@@giovannibalsamo6178 Engine RPM has little to do with gearbox ratio though. And it's not unusual for a naturally aspirated engine to rev higher than a turbo engine anyway.

[@giovannibalsamo6178]

@@Orvieta it has lot to do with gear ratio... if 2 different cars use same gear ratios, the one revving up higher will have longer gears.

[@Orvieta]

@@giovannibalsamo6178 But it might not have the power to "power" that longer gear. The Mustang GT3 as it stands has insanely long gears and the power to make use of it, which is weird...BOP-wise.

[@giovannibalsamo6178]

@@Orvieta as far I know gear ratios in gt3 are fixed and can't be changed after homolgoation... likely the car has lot of torque despite revving so high. Also amg gt3 has really long ratio

[@Pjb93]

Which button ejects bodywork?😄

[@redjlecitoyen2222]

Comment peut on être moins rapide q une gt3 ?

[@jcoleazh]

This gearbox is so strange

[@vvevvevvvv]

6th gear is not used at all

[@poikanick9041]

Watching those hypercars fly by feel like bots in games when you have a low stat car.

[@EliasWEC]

Acc fucked up the sounds ngl

[@nathan_1851]

Only 250 kmh? Lol

[@321gates]

What are you comparing it to?

[@nathan_1851]

Any sim right now(only played acc though😂)

[@321gates]

@nathan_1851 What does a game have to do with the real thing? And what classification of cars are you comparing Mustang's speed to?

[@tedzehnder961]

Congratulation,the only time a Mustang passed a car on the track was when it passed another Mustang.The only reason one of them finished high in the standings was pit stop overtakes.I think these cars are getting choked off at the intake.

[@dubby_ow]

this car sounds lovely, but seems pretty slow

[@Mustang525]

It’s faster than the car you have

[@dubby_ow]

Also slower than most of GT3 class on the field, idk whats your point, this is not a dick measuring competition, this is racing

[@321gates]

Ford is still working the bugs out of this car. It's a brand new car. The car has shown quite a bit of potential, though.

[@giovannibalsamo6178]

WEC gt3 are helpless slowass... they were slower than super trofeo in imola and it slows down to 210km/h at eau rogue while GTE could cross it at 240km/h almost flat out

[@Orvieta]

It's just FP, these GT3's can take Eau Rouge flat out if they wanted to.

[@giovannibalsamo6178]

@@Orvieta I'm of the idea that WEC gt3 have less power than usual out of torque sensors and energy stint per lap as benchmark for stint lenght

[@donaldbreedanjr6455]

The biggest difference in between this car and last year's car this years car has less down force.

[@elysianpositron661]

Yes, they're slower. But the racing will be better now that costs are down and more teams join. Just like LMP1 and Hypercar, the LMP1 was faster, but that category was dead as fuck

[@giovannibalsamo6178]

@@donaldbreedanjr6455 modern gt3 cars don't have less downforce than gte... consider that a 488 gt3 managed to set pole in 2.12 back in 2020 during gt-open qualifying

[@jacobevans2071]

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