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.

 

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

 

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.

 

That's a Ford???

 

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.

 

Sorry man, my bad.

Didn't saw "Powered" part.

 

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.

 

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?

 

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

 

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

 

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.

 

Panoz finished 45! Ouch! :angry: