Lynx Motors and Graham Rahal Performance have announced plans to offer a street-legal version of the Ford Matech Concepts GT1 Le Mans race car. The back story is a tad complicated, but Matech Concepts went bust and Lynx acquired their assets, and are now transforming first-generation chassis into an eye-catching hypercar.

Now that GT1 vision has been resurrected with this, the Lynx GT1. It’s the work of Lynx Motors and Graham Rahal Performance (GRP) in the US, offering up the tantalising prospect of a ‘street-legal version of the Ford Matech Concepts GT1 Le Mans race car’. With 1,200hp, of course.

You're about to be able to buy a Ford GT racecar for the road. A high-performance car dealer and a company that transforms restomod Land Rover Defenders are planning to build a car that brings a Le Mans car from 2010 to the street.