Ford Racing gathered the three GT40s from the 1966 Le Mans finish for its Hypercar reveal-date teaser. Photo: Ford Racing / Ford Motor Company
Ford Racing will reveal its 2027 Le Mans Hypercar on Thursday, Nov. 26, which in the United States is Thanksgiving Day.
Ford set the date on Oct. 13 in a short post on its From the Road site and a 37-second Instagram reel published jointly with the 24 Hours of Le Mans and FIA World Endurance Championship accounts. The reel’s caption is “See you November 26th” and a pair of eyes. The article’s only instruction is to stay tuned.
Neither one gives a time, a location, a format or a name for the car. Ford hasn’t said whether Nov. 26 is a livestream, a stage unveiling or another video.
Four cars on one track
To announce the date, Ford put the camouflaged Hypercar on track with what its post calls “the three GT40s from Le Mans 1966.” The black, light-blue and gold liveries match the Mk IIs that finished first, second and third that year: the No. 2 of Bruce McLaren and Chris Amon, the No. 1 of Ken Miles and Denny Hulme, and the No. 5 of Ronnie Bucknum and Dick Hutcherson. Ford doesn’t give chassis numbers, owners or the names of the people driving them for the shoot.
The post says this is the first time in history all four cars have run together, a record available to any car that started testing in August.
The reel opens inside a GT40, with a driver in a current Ford Racing suit and a yellow helmet at the wheel, cuts to grainy period footage from the Sarthe (Huiles Renault and Cinzano boards along the pit straight), then to a modern pit lane and the four cars in formation. It ends on the line “The New Era Begins” and the date. Neither the reel nor the article names the circuit. The grandstands and pit garages look like Silverstone’s, one of the venues on Ford’s August test list, and the subject of our report on Monday.
What Ford has already shown
Most of the car’s mechanical story is public. At its Jan. 16 season launch in Detroit, Ford confirmed a naturally aspirated 5.4-liter V8 derived from the Coyote, developed in-house with support from Red Bull Ford Powertrains and sharing its architecture with the Mustang LMGT3, the FIA WEC reported. It will be one of three non-turbocharged cars in the 2027 Hypercar field, alongside Aston Martin’s Valkyrie and the Cadillac V-Series.R, which we have covered.
Program manager Dan Sayers wrote in July that the engine had been fired for the first time in the chassis, with the hybrid system installed, at ORECA in France. In August, powertrain chief engineer Christian Hertrich described a Dearborn dyno cell that runs full simulated laps of the Circuit de la Sarthe, Mulsanne braking included, with the V8 going past 9,000 rpm. Neither post gives horsepower, torque or weight.
How much of it is Ford’s
The car is built to LMDh rules, which IMSA and the ACO set out in 2020. Every LMDh sits on a chassis from one of four approved constructors (Dallara, Ligier, Multimatic or ORECA) and uses the same hybrid hardware from Bosch, Williams Advanced Engineering and Xtrac. Manufacturers supply the combustion engine and style the upper bodywork. The underfloor is controlled, the wheelbase is common at 3.15 meters, and combined output is capped at 500 kW, about 670 hp.
When CEO Jim Farley announced the program in June 2025, Ford’s release described the car as Ford-powered, Ford-built and Ford-raced. The same release named ORECA, with facilities in Signes, Magny-Cours and Indianapolis, as the company designing the chassis.
That leaves the body as the one large piece of the car Nov. 26 can show for the first time, along with a name and a race livery. Since the first track runs in August, the car has worn blue-and-white camouflage over its surfaces.
The schedule after the reveal
Ford will enter two cars. The ACO lists six drivers: Matt Campbell, Logan Sargeant, Tom Blomqvist, Mike Rockenfeller, Nick Yelloly and Sebastian Priaulx.
Four months after the reveal, the car races for the first time at the Qatar 1812km at Lusail on March 25 to 27, 2027, following the official Prologue there on March 21 and 22, according to the published WEC calendar. Le Mans, the 95th running, is June 9 to 13. Ford won it outright four years in a row from 1966 to 1969 and hasn’t won it overall since. Farley’s line in 2025 was “We are coming back to Le Mans to win, and we aren’t making that a secret.”
Ford showed the car under a sheet on the Fourth of July and has booked the reveal for Thanksgiving. It still hasn’t said what time it starts or where.
Is putting the 1966 podium next to the new car the right way to introduce a Hypercar that has to beat Ferrari in 2027, or should Ford have let the new car stand on its own?
Sources: Ford Motor Company, From the Road (Oct. 13, 2026; Aug. 3, 2026; July 16, 2026; June 13, 2025); Ford Racing on Instagram (Oct. 13, 2026); FIA WEC (Jan. 16, 2026); 24 Heures du Mans/ACO (Aug. 17, 2026); IMSA/ACO LMDh technical regulations (Sept. 18, 2020); FIA WEC 2027 calendar as published by Silverstone.
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