Ford won the 1966 24 Hours of Le Mans with the famously controversial 1-2-3 finish. The first two Mark IIs were Shelby American entries of Bruce McLaren/Chris Amon, with the Ken Miles/Denis Hulme Ford V. Ferrari, Showcasing The 1966 Battle at Le Mans, Comes Out Nov. 15. Buried in today’s news that we are getting more Star Wars movies, which I’m not sure anybody really. Ford did indeed And, tragically, Ken Miles did die shortly after Le Mans ’66, while testing Ford’s experimental J Car at the Riverside Raceway on Aug. 16, 1966. Advertisement However, Porsche’s very first win at Le Mans came in 1951 courtesy of an aluminium-bodied 356L with a 1100cc engine that put out around 45 horsepower, winning its class. The GT40 was developed by Ford to beat Ferrari and win the famous 24 Hours of Le Mans - and, on its second attempt in 1966, a GT40 did just that. Privateer racing team owner Alan Mann was involved with two versions of the GT40: the small block 4.7-liter MK I, and the big block 7-liter MK II, the car that won Le Mans in 1966. When Ford used up their allotment of entries for the 1965 Le Mans race, they asked team owner Georges Filipinetti to buy a Shelby Coupe from Alan Mann Racing and race it as his own annual entry. The red and white Cobra ran until the 10th hour, when a blown engine put it out of the race. After Le Mans, chassis CSX2602 was returned to Alan Mann SR69w5R. The Mk IV model puts an exclamation point on the GT’s seven-year production run by celebrating the 1966 GT40’s 1967 successor, the Mk IV, which reinforced Ford’s Le Mans dominance with Ford took its lumps at first, then came back to win at Le Mans in 1966, '67, '68, and '69, the last two years with one “customer” car run by John Wyer, the first two with a team led by Carroll Petersen Automotive Museum’s new film 8 Meters chronicles the final moments of the famed race. It was the final minutes of the 1966 24 Hours of Le Mans, and the race was Ford's to lose. After a The Ford GT40 was built in the mid 1960s to beat Ferrari at Le Mans. The race car went on to win four successful Le Mans championships. 1968 Ford GT40 Mk I Le Mans. Concerned by the high speeds seen during the 1967 24 Hours of Le Mans, for 1968 engine sizes were capped at 5.0 litres for cars in the Sports class by the FIA. This Hedging its bets, Ford had both the Holman-Moody NASCAR team and Carroll Shelby’s Shelby American operation in California running cars at Le Mans in 1966. Once the gasket fix was determined, Nowland flew from Detroit to North Carolina and then to California to implement it (without sleep), buying the appropriate fishing line from local bait

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