Ford GT40

I photographed this car at Britten's chicane during the Historic Motor Racing New Gentlemen Drivers Sports Racing Challenge race at the Gold Cup meeting at Oulton Park in August 2005.

It's the 1965 Ford GT40 driven in the 60 minute long race by Shaun Lynn and Kevin Kivlochan and is chassis number GT40 P/1025. The GT40 was based on the Lola Mk6 and was developed by Ford specifically to beat Ferrari and win the Le Mans 24 Hour race, which it did on four occasions finishing in first place for four consecutive years from 1966 to 1969. Initially powered by the 289 cu in (4.7 litres) Ford Windsor V8 small block engine developed for the Ford Shelby Cobra, by the time of the 1966 Le Mans race the engine had been replaced by the 427 cu in (7 litres) Ford Galaxie engine and won the race with the same engine the following year. By 1968 the CSI had limited engine sizes to 5 litres for homologated cars (at least 50 had to be built) and 3 litres for the prototype class, and the GT40 reverted to a version of the original engine enlarged to 4.9 litres. That car won both the 1968 and 1969 races.

On 17 October 2017 I showed a photograph of Shaun Lynn's car in the paddock at this meeting.