Ford GT supercar gets hi-tech wheels created by Geelong Carbon Revolution

A Geelong start-up company has achieved a multi-million dollar agreement to export lightweight wheels for the fastest and most costly Ford supercar ever made.

Detroit executives validated overnight the $500,000 Ferrari-fighting Ford GT will be adjusted with wheels created in Geelong with world-first innovation.

Carbon Revolution is among 63 firms that will keep providing parts to Ford after the Broadmeadows and Geelong factories close in October 2016.

In 2015 the company– which started in an old shearing shed but now has a production and research study facility on the Deakin University campus– won a contract to provide wheels for a restricted edition Ford Mustang.

Following that success, it has now been provided responsibility to supply wheels for Ford’s most expensive vehicle of all time.

The wheel innovation was previously utilized in Formula One motor racing and this is its very first application on roadway cars.