aiming at its first overall Le Mans victory since 1969, the final win of four straight for the Ford GT40 sports car. Much has changed since then; in 1969, heavily-modified production cars like the ...

turning the AC Ace into the Shelby Cobra and earning four consecutive Le Mans victories as a team boss, from 1966-1969, with the legendary Ford GT40). Aston has been a stalwart of endurance racing for ...

Ford will compete for the overall title at the 24 Hours of Le Mans as ... the Ford GT40 took home four consecutive overall victories, including a famous 1-2-3 finish in '66 that coincided with ...

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 ... to 67 horsepower and only driving the rear wheels.

who are sent by Henry Ford II to build from scratch a new automobile to dethrone the Ferrari at the 1966 Le Mans competition. Le Mans 66 is a car-racing film which, unlike other feature-length ...

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 ...

More than 60 years ago, Ford set out with the ambitious goal of becoming the first American manufacturer to ever win the 24 Hours of Le Mans overall ... won the race in a GT40 Mk.

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 ...

To win outright victory at the 24 Hours of Le Mans. That’s right, Ford vs Ferrari is back on. Well, yes, but it’ll also be Ford vs Ferrari... vs Aston Martin vs Cadillac vs Alpine vs BMW vs ...

“When we race, we race to win. And there is no track or race that means more to our history than Le Mans." Ford had four consecutive overall victories at Le Mans from 1966 and 1969 under the ...

The automaker will be back in the World Endurance Championship series with a factory team that will compete at the 24 Hours of Le Mans. Ford had four consecutive overall victories at Le Mans from ...