- Ford launched the primary full picture of its F-150 Lightning SuperTruck
- The F-150 Lightning SuperTruck may have 6,000 kilos of downforce at 150 mph
- The F-150 Lightning SuperTruck seems to be in it to win it on the 2024 Pikes Peak Worldwide Hill Climb
The Ford F-150 Lightning SuperTruck will generate huge quantities of downforce to assist it set a fast time within the 2024 Pikes Peak Worldwide Hill Climb.
In a Fb publish, Ford stated the electrical racing particular will generate 6,000 kilos of downforce at 150 mph. The publish additionally included the most effective look but on the truck, which sports activities closely modified bodywork incorporating monumental entrance and rear wings and an enormous rear diffuser to provide all of that downforce. Little or no of the inventory Ford F-150 Lightning seems to have carried over.
Teaser for Ford F-150 Lightning demonstrator
It is now clear that the SuperTruck is a unique automobile from the high-performance F-150 Lightning idea introduced by Ford in February 2023. That idea nonetheless hasn’t been totally revealed, however a teaser confirmed that it lacks the SuperTruck’s jutting entrance wing.
The SuperTruck goals to do for the North American-market F-150 Lightning what Ford’s Supervan demonstrators have accomplished for the automaker’s U.Okay. van line. The latest Supervan demonstrator—a closely modified E-Transit Customized dubbed Supervan 4.2—set an Open Class document on the 2023 Pikes Peak Hill Climb, overlaying the 12.5-mile course in 8:47.682 within the fingers of Romain Dumas.
Teaser for Ford F-150 Lightning demonstrator
Dumas will drive the SuperTruck on the 2024 Pikes Peak Hill Climb, which is certainly a mark in Ford’s favor in relation to setting a quick time. Along with his record-setting Supervan run, Dumas holds the general document at Pikes Peak of seven:57.148, which the French driver set in 2018 behind the wheel of the Volkswagen ID.R time assault particular.
The SuperTruck will put on the quantity 150 at this 12 months’s Pikes Peak Hill Climb, which is scheduled for June 23.
