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Having developed the AC Cobra/Shelby Cobra into a successful GT race car, he realised that the weakness of the open-cockpit sports cars at Le Mans was the aerodynamic drag which limited top speed on the 3.7 miles (6.0 km) long Mulsanne Straight to around 157 miles per hour (253 km/h), nearly 30 miles per hour (48 km/h) less than the Ferrari 250 ...
The lead Shelby Cobra, along with the works AC and Aston Martin, were the only GTs to get under 4-minute laps. [ 25 ] The Davis/Mitter Porsche was the fastest 2-litre, qualifying 18th (4m02.1) and the Delageneste/Morrogh Alpine was the fastest of the smaller cars with a 4m34.3 (35th). [ 26 ]
1964 Shelby Daytona Cobra Coupe (CSX2299) In an effort to improve top speed along the legendary Mulsanne Straight at the 24 Hours of Le Mans race, a number of enclosed, coupé variations were constructed using the leafspring chassis and running gear of the AC/Shelby Cobra Mark II. The most famous and numerous of these were the official works ...
[5] [14] Dan Gurney had the quickest GT car – his Shelby Cobra was 12th with a 3:51.3, just ahead of the 3:55.0 of Willy Mairesse in the Belgian Ferrari GTB. In the next days, additional stabilising fins were added to the two GT40Xs. [14]
Shelby team engineer Pete Brock [135] hand-designed a Kamm-backed aerodynamic body for the Cobra, creating the Shelby Daytona coupe, and a showdown with Ferrari was set. [139] [140] In testing, the Shelby Daytona coupe attained a top speed of 196 mph, [135] and went on to win the GT class at the 1964 24 Hours of Le Mans. [141]
The 4.6 liter, 281-cubic-inch, 319 hp (238 kW) Ford Shelby GT slotted between the 300 hp (220 kW) Mustang GT and the Ford Shelby GT500. It is essentially a retail sale version of the Hertz rental-only Ford Shelby GT-H, except a manual transmission is available.
GT +5.0 9 Roger Penske: George Wintersteen Ben Moore Chevrolet Corvette StingRay: Chevrolet 7.0L V8 201 10 S +5.0 6 Scuderia Bear Bob Grossman Ed Lowther Shelby Cobra: Ford 7.0L V8 197 11 GT +5.0 8 Harold C. Whims Don Yenko Dave Morgan Harold Whims Chevrolet Corvette StingRay: Chevrolet 7.0L V8 197 12 P +5.0 4 Holman & Moody: A. J. Foyt Ronnie ...
Examples of the difficulties faced were highlighted in a two-week long dispute regarding Bugatti's record set in 2010, and Hennessey's 2013 claim that their own top speed run – slower than Bugatti's, lacking the required two-way average, and lacking the minimum 25 car production run – was the real record, due to an issue regarding ...