Much has changed since Seb Priaulx last raced a Ford Mustang, the model he will contest as a member of the works GTD Pro squad in next year’s IMSA SportsCar Championship. Rewind back to 2020, and a 19-year-old Priaulx was embarking on his first year of racing in the US and just his second in sportscars, after a breakout British GT campaign in 2019 almost netted the title in the Mustang GT4’s maiden season.
In the COVID-affected 2020 Michelin Pilot Challenge, the GT4 undercard to IMSA’s top-tier series, his Multimatic Motorsports-run entry had a revolving door of co-drivers that included future Daytona 500 winner Austin Cindric, his 2019 partner Scott Maxwell, Hailie Deegan and Marco Signoretti. Perhaps unsurprisingly given the circumstances, results were unremarkable.
