In a surprising move Tristan Vautier finds himself back in the cockpit of an Indy car this weekend. Vautier, who has been a fixture in sportscar racing the better part of the last seven years will pilot the No. 51-car for Dale Coyne Racing at the Chevrolet Detroit Grand Prix.
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The Falcon F7 is one of the more intriguing performance cars to come out of the U.S. in recent memory and one of the few examples built is currently up for auction.
Falcon only ended up building just seven examples of the F7 and this example is number 3. It was displayed at the Detroit Auto Show in 2014 and also featured in an episode of ‘How it’s Made: Dream Cars’.
The listing at Cars & Bids states that Falcon Motorsport has serviced the car since it was new and that the clutch and an axle shaft were recently replaced. It is also noted that the naturally aspirated 7.0-liter V8 sourced from the C6 Chevrolet Corvette Z06 that powers the F7 has been tuned by Lingenfelter and churns out 620 hp and 585 lb-ft (793 Nm) of torque. Mated to the V8 is a six-speed gated manual transmission driving the rear wheels.