I don't remember the race but I read about it. I don't know if it was the Ford photo op but a team staging the checker flag had the second place car get the win because they started farther back in the field and the staging of the checkers allowed the car to travel a longer distance than the real winner (got the pay attention to the odd LeMans rules). But that story could be folk lore.
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#60 Formula Racing entry it looked like.
This is where the diesel scandal really comes into play, VAG having to drop the third entries for financial reasons. Already down to one bullet for Audi pretty much.
Turbocharger change.
Yeah, they came to an agreement between each other to both drop the third car at Spa and Le Mans for this year. Hopefully it returns in a year or two.
The start was lame, 52 minutes of pace car. Sorry, girls, this is supposed to be endurance racing. Pace car for one lap = sighting lap to check conditions, then go green. Just my $0.02.
FL, why are you hating on Ford? Isn't it better to have more manufacturers racing, rather than less? And isn't a new American outfit welcome? Don't be like the Nascar fans hating on Toyota, LOL.
I'm all for them if they decide to stick around past 2017. But I haven't seen anything that indicates more than a two-year commitment and a desire to win anything other than Le Mans. It'll leave a bad taste in the mouths of many people if they just show up for a couple of years, win a race or two, and then bail. Like the Viper program on a significantly grander scale. Especially when the other makes Corvette, Ferrari, Aston Martin, and Porsche are mainstays in GT racing.
Good answer to my question, thanks. Ford has shown long term commitment to racing, but I get your point about not showing that for GT racing. I do think targeting mainly Le Mans rather than season-long championships is something that numerous competitors have done for a long, long time. It's like the long tradition of teams to target the Indy 500 (not so many today, but over the years many top quality Indy-only efforts.)
It's definitely a thing, especially for LMP1 programs, although not so much for GT teams. Porsche definitely came back to prototype racing mainly to win Le Mans again, although they've always shown a huge commitment to GT racing. And if they or Audi drop in the next few years I'm sure they'd still be big factors in GT racing. It just seems like this Ford program has more of a boom-or-bust mentality to it than most other programs in memory. I do think it's cool they decided to come back in the first place, though. It's certainly generated a lot of interest and is a great tribute to their 60's efforts.
