Romain Dumas has made a habit of embarrassing purpose-built race machinery at Goodwood. His 41.98-second run up the hill in the Super Mustang Mach-E EV demonstrator gave Ford Racing its third consecutive Timed Shoot-Out victory at the 2026 Festival of Speed, beating the latest Gen4 Formula E car by 0.49 seconds.
That margin matters. A Formula E car is built for nothing other than going fast on electric power. The Super Mustang Mach-E is a technology demonstrator, developed with the STARD team, wearing a production nameplate. The fact that it edged the single-purpose race car by less than half a second is the kind of headline Ford’s racing communications team will be citing for years. For the first time in the event’s history, both the top two finishing positions went to electric machinery.
Dumas now owns five Goodwood Timed Shoot-Out victories overall, a number that puts him in territory most professional hill climb drivers never approach. The three Ford wins trace a clear progression. In 2024, Dumas drove the SuperVan 4.2 to a 43.98-second run. He improved on that in 2025 with the F-150 Lightning SuperTruck, posting 43.22 seconds. The 2026 Mach-E time of 41.98 seconds cuts more than two full seconds off the 2024 benchmark across the same stretch of driveway.
The performance builds on what Dumas and the Super Mustang Mach-E already accomplished three weeks earlier at Pikes Peak, where the combination claimed the overall King of the Mountain win at the 104th running of the International Hill Climb with a time of 8:18.202. Two elite hill climb events inside a month, both won outright. The car is having a season.
Ford says the learnings from vehicles like the Super Mustang Mach-E and its predecessors feed directly into mainstream racing and road car development. That claim is standard motorsport communications language, and it is also, in this case, at least partially credible: each of the three Goodwood-winning vehicles has been built around a different electrified architecture, which suggests the program is genuinely exploring the range of what the platform can do rather than repeating the same trick in a new body.
On the production side, Mustang Mach-E deliveries totaled 20,177 units in Q3 2025, up roughly 51 percent from 13,392 units in the same quarter a year prior. The volume context matters because motorsport halo programs only justify their cost when there is a car in showrooms to benefit. Ford has that car, and at the moment, it is selling.
Three different vehicles. Three different years. One driver. Dumas has turned Goodwood into a personal property, and Ford has turned the Timed Shoot-Out into a product story that connects a showroom EV to one of motorsport’s most visible stages.
Source: Ford. Images courtesy of Ford.
