Evil_Capri

Ford Powered Panoz GTP is the only Ford powered entry in this years 24 Hours of Le Mans. Currently qualified 28th out of 48 positions.

GT350Clone

I wonder if we'll ever see a Ford GT at Lemans???

Evil_Capri

We can only hope! As I have stated in previous posts I wouldn't mind seeing Ford sell the Jaguar F1 team to Red Bull (still to use Ford/Cosworth power) and take some of the money to go back to Le Mans.

I doubt that would happen since Ford is in bed with the Grand-Am series (5.0 modular V8's deveoped with Robert Yates Racing) with the DP Prototypes.

Zastava_101

That's a Ford???

Evil_Capri

That's a Ford??? [/b][/quote]
Ford Powered! (6.0 OHV V8) If memory serves me the engine is based on the 358cu in NASCAR block.

Zastava_101

Sorry man, my bad.

Didn't saw "Powered" part.

Evil_Capri

No need to be sorry.

I meant the "Ford Powered!" in a good way, not in a negative way towards you! I'm sorry if you felt like I was trying to be an AZZ.

Zastava_101

No, no, I know what Powered mean, I just read this topic so quickly that I didn't saw "powered" part.

Anyway, the car looks great.

By the way, if this car qualified 28th out of 48 cars, does anyone know who got first 3 places?

Evil_Capri

Here is the entire lineup: (For the Panoz 18th in Class, 28th overall)

Le Mans 24 Hours, final qualifying results:

Class LMP1
1 Davies/Herbert/Smith Audi 3m32.838s
2 Biela/Kaffer/McNish Audi 3m33.233s
3 Wallace/Brabham/Shimoda Zytek 3m33.923s
4 Ara/Capello/Kristensen Audi 3m34.038s
5 Collard/Bourdais/Minassian Pescarolo-Judd 3m36.525s
6 Lehto/Werner/Pirro Audi 3m34.927s
7 Katoh/Michigami/Fukuda Dome-Mugen 3m36.285s
8 Lammers/Dyson/Kaneishi Dome-Judd 3m36.353s
9 Short/Barff/Barbosa Dallara-Judd 3m39.260s
10 Coronel/Wilson/Firman Dome-Judd 3m40.261s
11 Ayari/Comas/Treluyer Pescarolo-Judd 3m40.399s
12 Newton/Erdos/Kinch Lola-MG 3m42.298s
13 Stirling/Lupberger/McGarrity Nasamax-Judd 3m42.429s
14 Nielsen/Elgaard/Moller Lister 3m43.760s
15 Field/Dayton/Connor Lola-Judd 3m48.670s
16 Andre/Leuenberger/Vanni Lola-Judd 3m50.703s
17 Maurylaribiere/Boulay/Besson Reynard-Lehman 3m53.640s
18 Bourdais/Blanchemain/Berville Panoz 3m57.816s
19 Andrews/Lockie/Kumpen Lola-Caterpillar 4m14.380s

Class LMP2
1 Frei/Gounon/Hancock Courage-AER 3m41.126s
2 Belmondo/Gosselin/Saviozzi Courage-AER 3m51.862s
3 Jeanette/Pickering/Derlot Courage-Willman 3m57.850s
4 Binnie/Field/Sutherland Lola-Judd 3m59.984s
5 Bouvet/Gommendy/Briere WR 4m05.163s
6 Terada/Roussel/Porta WR 4m05.852s

Class GTS
1 Enge/Kox/Menu Ferrari 550 3m49.438s
2 Gavin/Beretta/Magnussen Corvette 3m49.750s
3 Fellows/O'Connell/Papis Corvette 3m51.378s
4 McRae/Rydell/Turner Ferrari 550 3m51.755s
5 Bouchut/Goueslard/Dupard Ferrari 550 3m55.500s
6 Hezemans/Deletraz/Barde Ferrari 575 4m00.714s
7 Bosch/Sullivan/Biagi Ferrari 575 4m06.375s

Class GT
1 Maasen/Bergmeister/Long Porsche 4m07.394s
2 Melo/Daoudi/de Fournoux Ferrari 360 4m08.484s
3 Hindery/Lieb/Rockenfeller Porsche 4m09.079s
4 Kelleners/Ortelli/Dumas Porsche 4m10.011s
5 Rosa/van Merkstein/Caffi Porsche 4m11.490s
6 Kurosawa/Nishizawa/Oriodo Porsche 4m12.949s
6 Khan/Smith/Sugden Porsche 4m13.009s
7 Berridge/Caine/Stockton TVR 4m13.368s
8 Burgess/Collin/Bagnalli Porsche 4m13.943s
9 Alphand/Laveille/Almeras Porsche 4m14.785s
10 Wilson/Montain/Hugenholtz Ferrari 360 4m18.768s
11 Vasiliev/Fomenko/Nearn Porsche 4m18.973s
12 Tomlinson/Greensall/Evans TVR 4m19.980s
13 Donaldson/Fisken/Nielsen Porsche 4m20.010s
14 Warnock/Matthews/Daniels Porsche 4m21.277s
15 Sharpe/Hyde/Cunningham Morgan 4m24.080s

Moosetang

They still using the Robert Yates V8s for those, or did they switch to the in-house V8 they cooked up for the roadster?

Evil_Capri

It is a French team (Elan) that is running the 'Batmobile' . So I am not sure, but I think they, Elan, builds the motors. (The actual engine designation is Elan, not Ford). But I would assume the parts would come from RYR.

Evil_Capri

Panoz finished 45! Ouch! :angry: