Photo of the day: Ford GT meets Focus RS

Unless you’ve been living in a cave for the past year, you will be well aware that a new Ford GT and Focus RS are coming. Perhaps the two most exciting names in Fast Ford history, both within months of each other. Anticipation is off the scale.

It’s not the first time these two cars have been together, though. Let us take you back to 2009, when TG mag got the last GT and RS together on the hills above Monaco.

A combined 850bhp under the soaring sun on some of Europe’s best roads: there are worse afternoons to be had. Now excuse us while we daydream about doing the exact same thing with Ford’s latest pairing of performance heroes…