Ford Gt40 Le Mans Ken Miles

Not only did he develop the gt40 he also won the daytona and sebring 24 hour races driving a ford in 1966. The first ford gt heritage edition celebrates ken miles 1966 daytona victory the 1966 daytona 24 was the gt40 s first major win. Now ford is building a tribute.

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The ford j car was intended to be the successor to the all conquering ford gt40 mk ii and despite reliability problems showed potential in the springtime le mans trials.

Ford gt40 le mans ken miles. Co drivers ken miles and lloyd ruby led a 1 2 3 5 ford domination at daytona kicking off a magical season for the ford gt40 mk ii with additional 1 2 3 wins at sebring and le mans. Ken miles the unsung hero of le mans 1966 gets a dig in at ford central press hulton archive getty images the winners podium at the 24 hours of le mans france on june 19 1966. Video also features christ. Entered by shelby american the ford.

Adam carolla visits a shelby museum to take a look at the original ken miles ford gt40 race car that he raced at le mans in 1966. With a team consisting of carroll shelby ken miles bruce mclaren and chris amon ford total performance was born and its lovechild was the ford gt40 mk. After the death of walt hansgen in a j car ford while testing at le mans in april the decision was made to shelve the j car and focus on the proven mk iis and little development was done for the rest of the 1966 world.