Ford Motor Company On February 28, 1965, Ken Miles and Loyd Ruby teamed to race the No. 73 GT40 against the best in the world on Daytona International Speedway's road course, the event billed as ...
Enter Carroll Shelby. The first GT40 arrived at Shelby American's shop in Los Angeles on a drizzly day in mid-December 1964, and Shelby had about two-and-a-half months to re-engineer, test, and ...
Peter Brock's desire to foil Shelby inadvertently sowed the seeds that would see Datsun emerge as Japan’s premier performance ...
Shortly after unveiling the Dodge Charger, the American automaker created a souped-up high-performance variant named the Charger Daytona. Its aerodynamic front ... It was sold between 1965 and 1970.
Mecum's upcoming Indianapolis auction will include the sale of one of the two surviving GT40 Roadster prototypes.
The only other surviving GT40 Roadster Prototype, GT/108, was sold at RM Sotheby’s Monterey auction in 2019 for a cool $7.65 ...
The Daytona 200 motorcycle classic, a unique event in motorsports, will run for the 83rd time Saturday at Daytona International Speedway. Josh Herrin, a two-time consecutive Daytona 200 winner ...
Sunday’s Daytona 500 saw the most cars involved in crashes in that event since the 2019 race and ended a Daytona Speedweeks that saw nearly 100 vehicles in the Cup, Xfinity and Craftsman Truck Series ...
William Byron became the youngest driver to win multiple Daytona 500s. The event drew 6.76 million viewers on TV, a 13% increase from 2024, and marked the highest viewership for a sporting event ...
Advertisement This perpetual debate added another chapter following Sunday’s Daytona 500 that saw William Byron go from seventh on the final lap to victory lane due to a crash that either ...