RM Sotheby’s will sell a Ford GT40 Mk II on behalf of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway Museum at its upcoming Miami auction The car raced in the 1966 24 Hours of Le Mans, where Ford famously ...
We’ve all heard about slot car tracks and the cool model race cars built to blast around them, but what about a full-size race car with a built-in slot car track? This 1969 Ford GT40 has a secret ...
Photo: Mecum Auctions He joined the GT40 Owners Club, took the Ford to the track, and raced it in the early 1970s. He participated in the Le Mans pre-race parade and ran a six-hour relay race at ...
A full Ford factory effort will go for the outright Le Mans victory for the first time since 1982 ...
Powered by a 3.8-liter EcoBoost V6 rated at 800 horsepower, the GT MkIV was developed to commemorate Ford's victory at the 1967 24 Hours of Le Mans (hence the 67 units produced). Although the ...
Drivers Hans Hermann and Gérard ­Larrousse managed to finish second in that year’s 24 Hours of Le Mans (a different 908 LH shown below), only two seconds behind the winning Ford GT40 of Jacky ...
Doing so will lead to Ford returning to Le Mans in the same year to celebrate its class wins with the legendary GT40 and the GTLM—the racecar version of the Ford GT. While LMDh cars can compete ...
Executive Chairman Bill Ford and Ford Performance general manager Will Ford seek motor racing dominance at Le Mans, F1, ...
Press a button and this GT40's body lifts open, revealing a 1:32-scale Le Mans replica slot car track with two remote ...
Ford won Le Mans across four consecutive years between 1966 and 1969 with iterations of its iconic GT40. In the past decade, Ford has raced at Le Mans in a works capacity but only in competition for ...
After two heart-breaking years of a motorsports program designed to beat Ferrari at the 24 Hours of Le Mans, Ford finally delivered in 1966 with the MKII GT40. Ford stacked the field in the race by ...