This is the Ford F-150 Lightning EV built for Pikes Peak

Big wang gang

Move over, Escudo. We have a new winner for what’s possibly the world’s biggest rear wing fitted to a race car.

Ford Performance has revealed the F-150 Lightning SuperTruck that will take on the Pikes Peak International Hillclimb. And yes, that massive front and rear wing is designed to make the all-electric pickup stick firmly to the ground, as well as that enormous diffuser at the back as the truck climbs up the iconic mountain.

The Blue Oval’s Skunkworks group claims the F-150’s aerodynamic features (or rather highlights?) generate up to 2,722kg of downforce at 240 km/h. Ford did not disclose power output figures just yet, but the SuperVan 4.2 from last year has a three-motor setup that produces over 1400 PS so we should expect the F-150 to get something similar, if not more. After all, you’ll also need all that power to overcome the downforce dragging the truck to the ground.

Romain Dumas, the current Pikes Peak Internatonal Hillclimb record holder, will be behind the wheel of the Ford F-150 Lightning SuperTruck on June 23. Ford is looking to smash the Open Class record set by the electric SuperVan 4.2 in 2023, where it posted a time of 8:42.682 in the 20 km course.

Ford says “insights from the Pikes Peak program will inform software calibration and battery cell chemistry for production vehicles as well as future race programs”.