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November 2022
News
ord’s next generation Ranger
Raptor will be its latest off-road-
ing vehicle to tackle the SCORE
International Baja 1000 – one of the
toughest off-road races in the world.
The Ranger Raptor will be racing on
a low-carbon biofuel, demonstrating
the potential of these fuels in the
most demanding environments.
Ford Performance worked with
Australia’s Kelly Racing to build the
Baja-ready Ranger Raptor and U.S.-
based Lovell Racing to develop and
race the truck at Baja, which begins on Nov. 18.
Lovell Racing, led by multi-time off-road champi-
on and Off-Road Motorsports Hall of Famer Brad
Lovell, is one of Ford Performance’s key off-road
teams.
“By entering this event, we’re building on the
hundreds of thousands of kilometers of develop-
ment testing and pushing the Ranger Raptor to
new extremes,” said Brian Novak, Off-Road Mo-
torsports Supervisor, Ford Performance.
The Baja 1000, held on the Baja California
Peninsula, is considered one of the world’s most
prestigious off-road races, attracting competi-
tors from around the globe eager to take on its
miles of treacherous desert terrain, steep drops
and tough climbs.
In the past, both the F-150 Raptor and Ford
Bronco have successfully raced at Baja. Whether
it was a stock 2017 F-150 Raptor finishing on the
podium before driving an additional 400 miles
home, the Bronco R race prototype’s develop-
ment and verification of the current production
Bronco or even hailing all the way back to the leg-
endary 1969 overall win, there’s hearty history at
play for Ford trucks.
Ford Performance believes the Ranger Raptor
is up for the challenge. It is built to the rules of
SCORE’s stock class, which are meant to show off
the capability of the stock street legal bakkies.
The Ranger Raptor will be powered by Shell’s
low carbon biofuel blend, which consists of more
than 30% sustainably sourced bio components.
“Demonstrating low-carbon fuels
in performance settings like the Baja
1000 can help bring biofuels and oth-
er clean energy technologies to scale
more quickly, and help to make them
more available and affordable for ev-
eryone,” said Cynthia Williams, Global
Director of Sustainability, Compliance
and Homologation at Ford.
Ford is working to achieve car-
bon neutrality globally across its ve-
hicles, operations and supply chain
by no later than 2050 and to reach
science-based interim targets by 2035. As Ford
launches electrified versions of its most popular
nameplates, the company continues to research
and develop alternative fuel options across all
of its vehicles, including performance racing, to
provide customers with efficient, low-carbon al-
ternatives. Alternative fuel vehicles can reduce
GHG emissions compared to conventional fuel
equivalents on a well-to-wheels basis, which in-
cludes emissions from both producing and con-
suming the fuels.
Next-generation Ford Ranger
Raptor to tackle Baja 1000
otortrend’s iconic Hot Rod brand, one
of the most recognised brands in the
world of high-performance cars since
1948, announced the brand will celebrate its
75th anniversary by providing free access to its
massive magazine archives, featuring digital ver-
sions of every Hot Rod Magazine published prior
to 2022.
ClassiC car fans can access the Hot Rod digi-
tal archive by registering for a free MotorTrend+
account. With more than 900 issues of Hot Rod
Magazine published since 1948, totaling more
than 128 000 pages of content, the Hot Rod Dig-
ital Archives takes readers from the early days of
organised racing on the dry lake beds through the
horsepower wars of the ‘60s into present day.
Next-Gen
ranger raptor
is baja bound
Hot Rod celebrates by unlocking
archives