NEW Satellite photos have revealed that Ford is clearing out Super Duty trucks it's been storing at an abandoned racecourse for months.
In September, an estimated 40,000 undelivered 2022 Ford models filled the parking lot of the Kentucky Speedway in Sparta, about 60 miles northeast of Louisville.
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But new photo evidence shows that Ford began shipping off its Super Duty trucks stored at the track after December 21.
By mid-January, approximately 90 percent of the speedway's trucks are gone, with additional trailers being loaded up, The Drive reports.
Ford is likely clearing the speedway to complete deliveries for 2022 model-year Super Duty trucks as the models’ 2023 production is launching soon, according to The Drive.
The satellite photos published in September revealed the extent of the auto industry’s supply chain crisis.
Many Super Duty models parked at the speedway were awaiting several parts, mainly chips.
"The supply shortages will result in a higher-than-planned number of 'vehicles on wheels' built but remaining in Ford’s inventory awaiting needed parts at the end of the third quarter," Ford said in a press release at the time.
Ford added: “The company believes that those vehicles – an anticipated 40,000 to 45,000 of them, largely high-margin trucks and SUVs – will be completed and sold to dealers during the fourth quarter.”
The delivery estimate within Ford’s press release lines up with their decision to begin removing 2022 Super Duty trucks from the Speedway in December.
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As The U.S. Sun had previously reported, Ford’s 2022 third-quarter backlog was more than double the 18,000 unfinished cars reported at the end of 2022’s second quarter, according to company executives at a September investor meeting.
The Drive reports that the speedway pileup first began in May 2021.
The Kentucky Speedway was formally a NASCAR track but has not held races since 2020 due to poor attendance.
