The #25 Ford Mustang at the moment preventing for this 12 months’s Supercars Championship is heading to public sale, and it may very well be a comparatively low-cost purchase ought to it go on to win the title or Bathurst 1000 in only a month.
Walkinshaw Andretti United is promoting chassis WR028 to unlock area in its Clayton facility earlier than this Mustang’s driver, Chaz Mostert, will get a brand new racer subsequent 12 months.
Hosted by Lloyds, the public sale is because of finish on Sunday, September 15 at 7:00pm (AEST) – only a few hours after the flag falls on this 12 months’s Sandown 500 endurance race.
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Meaning whoever buys Mostert’s Mustang will probably be shopping for a automotive earlier than it’s accomplished the season, with the Bathurst 1000, Gold Coast 500 and Adelaide 500 closing out the 12 months.
Walkinshaw has executed this earlier than, having offered the Mostert’s 2021 Holden Commodore racer in September of the identical 12 months for $610,000, earlier than happening to win the Bathurst 1000 the next month.
Mustang chassis WR028 debuted in the beginning of Supercars’ ‘Gen3’ period in 2023, and although it went winless final 12 months – giving Mostert his first 12 months with no victory or pole place – the automotive and its driver have been in type this 12 months.
With three wins thus far this 12 months, together with back-to-back victories in Sydney, Mostert is inside 81 factors of championship chief Will Brown, with a most 1200 factors nonetheless up for grabs throughout the 4 remaining rounds of the season.
Whereas the sale will seemingly be finalised earlier than Monday, the automotive gained’t be delivered to its new proprietor till subsequent 12 months, the place it’ll be wrapped within the livery which it (hopefully) finishes the Bathurst 1000 in.
For the primary time, Walkinshaw may also embrace the race-modified 5.4-litre Coyote V8 engine underneath the Mustang’s bonnet within the sale, slightly than making the longer term proprietor discover their very own powerplant.
On the time of writing (3pm, September 12) bidding is as much as $210,000.
