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The Ford GT40 is a high-performance mid-engined racing car originally designed and built for and by the Ford Motor Company to compete in 1960s European endurance racing. Its specific impetus was to best Scuderia Ferrari , which had won the prestigious 24 Hours of Le Mans race for six years running from 1960 to 1965 .
1932 – Ford introduced its V-8 Flathead engine, bringing V-8 power into mass production with the slogan "Everyman’s power for the road, and Everyman’s power for racing". 1932 – Two car mechanics win the Swedish Winter Grand Prix driving a Ford special. [2]
At the 1981 Spanish Grand Prix the Equipe Banco Occidental team became the last privateer team to have entered a car for a race alongside a works team when they entered a Williams car alongside the Williams works team. [68] During the period of the 1950–1981 seasons, privateer teams won 20 World Championship races in total.
In Formula One motor racing, engine or power unit manufacturers are people or corporate entities which are credited as the make of Formula One engines that have competed or are intended to compete in the FIA Formula One World Championship. A constructor of an engine owns the intellectual rights to its engine. [1]
The Reynard FF83 was Reynard's 1983 Formula Ford model. Founded by Adrian Reynard in 1973 as Sabre Automotive Ltd, the company built on its success in lower formulae (particularly Formula Ford and its variants; Reynard himself was a top driver in Formula Ford 2000 in the late seventies) to progress in March 1994 to CART racing and collaborate with British American Racing from 1999 in the ...
At the 1989 Indianapolis 500, neither car qualified in the front two rows, but both started in the top ten. On race day, both drivers dropped out with engine failures. Rahal won one race in 1989 at the Meadowlands Grand Prix. However, the Kraco team merged with Galles at season's end, dropped the program, and switched to Chevrolets.
[3] [4] In the registration lists it appeared under the designations Ford TEC or Ford TEC-Turbo. The GBA was the only supercharged Formula 1 engine that Cosworth and Ford had in the so-called turbo era, and at the same time the last new development to be used before turbo engines were banned in 1989. The Cosworth GBA competed in 1986 and 1987.
The Lola Mk6 GT was a racing car with a production run of only three units, built between 1962 and 1963 by British car manufacturer Lola Cars.With its 289 cu in (4.74 L) Ford V8 engine, the Mk6 GT was the first mid-mounted, high displacement V8-powered Grand Touring car, [2] a chassis arrangement that had been used, up until that time, only on formula cars and smaller, more affordable GTs.