FG Falcon

The Ford FG Falcon (2009–2012) was Ford's final car of the five-litre Project Blueprint era, replacing the BF Falcon. It is a distinct, pre-COTF car — not to be confused with the later control-chassis FG Falcon (COTF) of 2013.

Project Blueprint — parity, own chassis

The Blueprint FG was a parity car, not a control-chassis one: teams still designed and built their own chassis to the standardised Blueprint geometry. It ran the marque-common double-wishbone front (adjustable camber, cockpit-adjustable anti-roll bar), a live rear axle located by four parallel links and a Watts linkage on coil-over adjustable dampers (from the control damper list), a front-mounted Holinger six-speed, the Dunlop control tyre, the mandated control ECU and a 1355 kg minimum. The common control chassis only arrived with Car of the Future in 2013 — which is why the Blueprint FG and the COTF-era FG are separate cars.

Body & aero

The FG carried the road car's silhouette worked to Blueprint's parity-controlled envelope — a front splitter and undertray and a boot-mounted rear wing. The aero was a controlled package aimed at holding the two marques close on downforce and drag, set by the technical rules rather than freely developed or published as per-car figures.

Engine & driveline

Stone Brothers Racing developed the works Falcon engine — a 5.0-litre V8 with an SVO iron block and aluminium heads, fuel-injected on the control ECU (media guides name MoTeC), estimated around 635+ bhp, limited to 7500 rpm at a 10:1 compression ceiling. Drive ran through the Holinger six-speed and a Ford 9-inch differential on the control 3.25 / 3.5 / 3.7 final-drive set (plus the 3.15 long-circuit ratio for Bathurst), via an AP Racing triple-plate carbon clutch.

Brakes, wheels & tyres

Per the corrected catalog, the works Stone Brothers FG ran Alcon six-piston front monobloc calipers (with a removable bridge bar) on 375 mm discs and Alcon four-piston rears on 343 mm discs, with O.Z 17×11 magnesium wheels — not the Brembo/Speedline package sometimes assumed. None of these was universal: brake make and wheel supplier varied by team (the control-brake list approved AP Racing, Brembo, Alcon, PFC and Harrop). The tyre was the single-make Dunlop control.

Evolution

The Blueprint FG raced 2009–2012, right up to the end of the formula, before the category moved to the control-chassis Car of the Future (Gen I) for 2013 — where Ford's Falcon continued as the separate FG Falcon (COTF).

Sources: harvested V8 Supercar media-guide spec sheets (Ford Falcon FG, Stone Brothers Racing) + Division C technical rules — Grade B; Project Blueprint standardisation — Grade B/D.