Congratulations to Ford!

"LongbowMkII" (longbowmkii)
06/19/2016 at 10:11 • Filed to: None

For your 18-20-21 place finish. Enjoy your 50th anniversary footnote.

DISCUSSION (18)

Dusty Ventures > LongbowMkII
06/19/2016 at 10:32

Meh, you can’t win Le Mans overall in a car based off a road-legal car anymore, and Ford wanted to maintain those road car ties. I’m okay with it.

TheTurbochargedSquirrel > LongbowMkII
06/19/2016 at 10:33

Good to know you don’t care about anything other than the overall.

LongbowMkII > Dusty Ventures
06/19/2016 at 10:35

I must have missed the 1966 GT40 sales brochures.

TheTurbochargedSquirrel > LongbowMkII
06/19/2016 at 10:38

You must have missed the anymore portion of that statement.

LongbowMkII > TheTurbochargedSquirrel
06/19/2016 at 10:38

I enjoy GT racing as well. Just not the OMG AMERICA WINS. Seriously, the Corvette has been stupid dominate in GT for 15 years. We’ve been here a while. A US team on top of the GT podium is old hat.

LongbowMkII > TheTurbochargedSquirrel
06/19/2016 at 10:41

The GT40 was a “road car” in the way that all prototypes of that era were “road cars”. Only on technicalities.

TheTurbochargedSquirrel > LongbowMkII
06/19/2016 at 10:44

http://www.ebay.com/itm/like/27227…

Here’s a 1966 GT40 add talking about le mans.

Corvette has never dominated GTE competition. The last time they could be considered to dominate was in GT1 when they were the only factory effort in the category. It’s not about an American team winning, it is about the return of a legendary manufacturer to le mans. It’s the same thing that it was when Porsche returned in 2014.

TheTurbochargedSquirrel > LongbowMkII
06/19/2016 at 10:46

It was a road car in the same way the new GT is a road car. They were both constructed so that Ford could compete at le mans.

aberson Bresident of the FullyAssed Committe > LongbowMkII
06/19/2016 at 10:48

Kinja'd!!!

TheHondaBro > LongbowMkII
06/19/2016 at 10:52

The GT40, by today's standards, would be an LMP1 car.

LongbowMkII > TheTurbochargedSquirrel
06/19/2016 at 11:00

One was constructed to win lemans.

The other was constructed to sell $450,000 cars.

Viggen > TheTurbochargedSquirrel
06/19/2016 at 11:02

A road car that’s not on the road yet, and required the other GTE manufacturers agreeing to a waiver to let the GT compete.

Dusty Ventures > LongbowMkII
06/19/2016 at 11:05

I’m not saying the original GT40 was a road car. I’m saying this time around Ford wanted it to be related to a road car, and they couldn’t do that in the P1 class.

TheTurbochargedSquirrel > Viggen
06/19/2016 at 11:10

They also had to agree for the 488.

Viggen > TheTurbochargedSquirrel
06/19/2016 at 11:13

Curious to see your source for that one.