Ford has hired serious brainpower for its WEC Hypercar program

Ford has hired its race engineers for the two as-yet-unnamed (but surely named Mustang GTP) Hypercars it will enter in the 2027 FIA World Endurance Championship. One is Leena Gade, who won the 24 Hours of Le Mans with Audi three times. The other is Jean-Philippe Sarrazin, who engineered the #6 Penske Porsche when it won the world drivers’ championship in 2024. Not bad, eh?

Their boss (trackside engineering manager) will be Grant Clarke, who was chief engineer of the NEOM McLaren Formula E team in 2024 and at TF Sport in WEC for four years before that.