Having developed the Ford Mustang GT4 with support from its parent division Multimatic Engineering, Multimatic Motorsports currently constructs, sells and provides support for the globally homologated Mustang GT4 for Ford Performance from Multimatic Technical Centre in Markham, Ontario.
For 2017 LMP2 new regulations, its joint-venture with Riley Tech, was selected as one of the four chassis manufacturers with the Riley-Multimatic MkXXX.
Multimatic Motorsports has signed a number of different professional drivers over the years across a range of disciplines, including sports car racing, stock car racing, and rallying. As of 2024, they have twelve drivers.[3]
Racing results
1992 – Won the Sports Class of the Canadian Firestone Firehawk Championship in the team's first year of competition. Scott Maxwell joined the team as primary driver of a factory supported Ford Taurus SHO. Maxwell won the Driver's Championship by a 600-point margin.
1993 – Won the Sports Class of the Canadian Endurance Road Racing Championship. Scott Maxwell won a second straight National Driver's Championship.
1995 – Engineered, developed and built an IMSA GTS class Mustang tube frame car which finished on the podium in its first outing at Lime Rock Park. Also won the four-door sedan class of the Car & Driver One Lap of America with a Ford Aluminum Intensive Vehicle (AIV).
1999 – Won Ford its first ever Manufacturer's Championship in showroom stock racing while campaigning three Ford Mustang Cobras in the Motorola Cup North American Street Stock Championship.
2000 – Entered the 2000 24 Hours of Le Mans with a Lola B2K/40 using a Multimatic designed and built chassis. Multimatic Motorsports and drivers Scott Maxwell, David Empringham and Greg Wilkins won the LMP675 class. This is the only time a Canadian motorsports organization has won at the French endurance classic.
2002 – Won the Grand Am Cup Championship campaigning two Porsche GT3 Cup[4] cars on behalf of Doncaster Racing. Scott Maxwell won the Driver's Championship.
2003 – Inaugural Daytona Prototype class winner at the 24 Hours of Daytona with the Ford Focus Daytona Prototype race car– designed, engineered and built by Multimatic.
2005 – Won the Grand Am Cup Championship campaigning the Multimatic designed, built and developed Ford Mustang FR500C. Multimatic driver David Empringham won the Driver's Championship.
2008 – Won the KONI Sports Car Challenge GS title campaigning two Ford Mustang FR500C cars on behalf of Hyper Sport Racing. Scott Maxwell won the Driver's Championship with Joe Foster.
2010 – Tasked by Ford Racing to engineer and build the new Mustang Boss 302R race car. Campaigned a two-car entry in the Grand-Am Continental Tire Sports Car Challenge GS class for drivers Scott Maxwell, Joe Foster, Frank Montecalvo and Gunnar Jeannette. The duo of Maxwell and Foster posted three poles during the season (Barber, VIR and Trois-Rivieres) , but race results were hampered by reliability issues with the new car.
2011 – Multimatic Motorsports returned to the Grand-Am Continental Tire Sports Car Challenge with the #15 Mustang Boss 302R race car. Off season development by the team and Ford Racing made the car competitive in the GS class– Foster and Maxwell won at Barber and finished second at Daytona.
2012 – Multimatic Motorsports celebrated its 20th anniversary by launching the largest racing program in its history ; campaigning four cars in the Grand-Am Continental Tire Sports Car Challenge. Multimatic Motorsports became an official partner to Aston Martin Racing, and debuted the Aston Martin Vantage V8 Grand-Am race car in the GS class. Notably Scott Maxwell and Joe Foster finished second at Barber Motorsports Park and third at Lime Rock Park. Tonis Kasemets and Jade Buford earned a third at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca. All told, the Aston Martins earned five top ten finishes during the year.
Also during 2012, Multimatic Motorsports debuted the turn-key Ford Racing Focus ST-R in the ST class, which is a racing version of the Ford Focus ST road car. The ST-R was under development during the year, and secured a respectable 5 top ten positions.
2013 – Multimatic Motorsports continued its Grand-Am Continental Tire Sports Car Challenge with three Aston Martin Vantage V8 Grand-Am race cars. The cars competed in the GS class.
2014 – Multimatic Motorsports reverted to its previously campaigned Ford Mustang Boss 302Rs for the Continental Tire Sports Car Challenge. The two cars (No. 15 for Scott Maxwell and Jade Buford, and No. 158 for Billy Johnson and Ian James) competed in the GS class in the colors of team partners Miller Racing. Maxwell and Buford finished the season tied 4th in points. Archived 2015-04-10 at the Wayback Machine
2015 – Multimatic Motorsports continued with Ford Mustang Boss 302Rs for the first three rounds of the Continental Tire Sports Car Challenge before debuting the new Ford Performance Shelby GT350 R-C at Lime Rock Park.[5] The car exhibited competitive pace almost immediately, scoring three wins in its debut season.[6]
2017 – Multimatic Motorsports did not contest the 2017 IMSA Continental Tire SportsCar Challenge. Instead, the company focused on homologating and constructing the new-for-2017 Mustang GT4 for use by customer teams in worldwide GT4 competition. Multimatic Motorsports Europe continued to field a two-car Ford GT team under the Ford Chip Ganassi Racing banner in FIA World Endurance Championship (WEC) competition, delivering two wins and a 2nd-place finish at Le Mans.
Maxwell and Priaulx were in contention for the GT4 title, going into the final round at Donington Park, against TF Sport's Tom Canning and Ashley Hand. The sister car of Ashley Davies and Marco Signoretti retired after a collision on the formation lap. The number 15 car managed to get into 2nd place in GT4 but it wasn't enough to seal the title and they finished 2nd 8.5 points behind.[12] Throughout the season, Chris Hoy, Billy Johnson, Chad McCumbee, Jade Buford, Richard Meaden and Jack Roush, Jr. all scored points for the team but Multimatic Motorsports only just clinched 3rd in the teams' standings tied on points with HHC Motorsport.
Andrew Graham Priaulx, MBE is a British racing driver from Guernsey. In 2019 he raced for Ford Chip Ganassi Team UK in the FIA World Endurance Championship, and Cyan Racing Lynk & Co in the FIA World Touring Car Cup, having been a former BMW factory driver.
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