Hello, welcome to the Edmonds Carcast Podcast.

I'm Matt the Motorator DeAndria here with Alistair Weaver.

We have a guest on the show.

We have Carl Whitman, Carl's from Ford.

Welcome, Carl.

Thank you so much for joining us.

Quickly tell us what it is that you do there. What is your title now? So I'm Ford Racing, production vehicle, chief engineer.

So what's that mean? That means anything that's street legal, I'm in charge of making sure

the engineering gets done on it and it delivers

on time to what the enthusiasts have. So like Raptors, you know, when we did Gt Gt Gt 500, that type of

vehicle, GPD. Just working through all that with a bunch of enthusiasts who really make vehicles

enthusiasts.

Carl, I think you've got one of those jobs that everybody, body, loves, and we should

start with like, so Ford Racing, so this is the company formerly known as SVT, then

it became Ford Performance and it's Ford Racing, but Ford Racing now encompasses all of the

stuff that happens on track, but it's also Ford's performance Ford racing now encompasses all of the stuff that happens on

track, but it's also Ford's performance vehicle. I just want to get that sort of straight at the

start because it's kind of hard to keep up sometimes. Absolutely. So we now umbrella the

whole organization, the Mark Rosh for us and that covers what would have been referred to as competition racing

across all the spectrum and then the production vehicle space.

And really the, the enthusiast things we do with the marketing side of engagement

and the experiences that they get with going to the Raptor assault school

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