{"id":715168,"date":"2026-06-04T17:11:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T17:11:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/715168\/"},"modified":"2026-06-04T17:11:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T17:11:10","slug":"ford-mustang-supercar-to-feature-at-red-bull-drift-masters-ireland-2026-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/715168\/","title":{"rendered":"Ford Mustang Supercar to feature at Red Bull Drift Masters Ireland 2026 event"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A FORD Mustang Supercar will set foot in Ireland for a confirmed public appearance next week.<\/p>\n<p>The surprise cameo has been announced overnight via Red Bull Ireland, to occur at Mondello Park near Dublin on June 13-14.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s for the Red Bull Drift Masters Ireland event, which is described as \u201cnow also including Red Bull Ampol Racing\u2019s Ford Mustang Supercar\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>That will presumably be the United States-based Gen3 beast built by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.v8sleuth.com.au\/stats-driver-250-Dick-Johnson\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dick Johnson<\/a> Racing but presented in Red Bull Ampol colours <a href=\"https:\/\/www.v8sleuth.com.au\/video-whincups-oval-drive-released\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">that Jamie Whincup drove last month at Homestead-Miami Speedway<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>That same car was earlier steered by Formula 1 superstar Max Verstappen in Las Vegas.<\/p>\n<p>Triple Eight, which is Ford\u2019s Supercars homologation team, does also have its own spare Gen3 Mustang which was sampled by Daniel Ricciardo at Calder in March.<\/p>\n<p>The scheduled Supercar outing at Mondello does neatly fall less than a month out from the 2026 Goodwood Festival of Speed (July 9-12) in England, where V8 Sleuth understands a Whincup-driven Mustang could factor.<\/p>\n<p>Mondello was a regular fixture on the British Touring Car Championship calendar in the 2000s and is next month hosting a round of the FIA European Rallycross Championship.<\/p>\n<p>The Undercut \u2013 The Chevy Situation<\/p>\n<p>The Undercut is back, breaking down the latest happenings in the world of Supercars racing!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A FORD Mustang Supercar will set foot in Ireland for a confirmed public appearance next week. The surprise&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":715169,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[64,63,105],"class_list":["post-715168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/715168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=715168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/715168\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/715169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=715168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=715168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=715168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}