Ford GT GT3

[Coniston]

Ascari only produced very few customer road car (last year) - according to previous threads on here - and they are homologated for Gt3 so ithink the comments are correct about an homologation life going on after production has finished.

[AU N EGL]

Originally Posted by KA

It's a privateer effort with no input or support from Ford, so presumably they're planning to develop it because they believe they've got a competitive car on their hands, even though it's out of production.

Doesn't the manufacture do the FIA homologation? Or if the privateer team is doing the homologation, don't they have to produce 25 cars as in a small manufacture?

The ORIGINAL GT40s were Holman & Moody Mark II's, not Ford GT40s IIRC http://www.holmanmoody.com/

[KA]

Originally Posted by AU N EGL

Doesn't the manufacture do the FIA homologation? Or if the privateer team is doing the homologation, don't they have to produce 25 cars as in a small manufacture?

The ORIGINAL GT40s were Holman & Moody Mark II's, not Ford GT40s IIRC http://www.holmanmoody.com/

I don't know if this is the case, but I wonder if that under current FIA GT regs, so long as the original manufacturer has met the production requirement for the class then the team developing the car might be able to do the actual homologation?- Prodrive didn't have any factory support from Ferrari when they did the 550 Maranello for GT1 a few years back.

[ThePenguin]

Originally Posted by KA

Prodrive didn't have any factory support from Ferrari when they did the 550 Maranello for GT1 a few years back.

Wasn't it also the same thing when they started the Aston Martin project, with no factory support from Ford.

[ss_collins]

The ORIGINAL GT40s were Holman & Moody Mark II's, not Ford GT40s IIRC

Sorry I thought that they were FAV cars built by John Horsmann and JWA? Am I missing something??

[AU N EGL]

Originally Posted by ss_collins

Sorry I thought that they were FAV cars built by John Horsmann and JWA? Am I missing something??

Misinformation possible? Have a look at the Holman & Moody web site.http://www.holmanmoody.com/

[Le Vieux]

Originally Posted by ss_collins

Sorry I thought that they were FAV cars built by John Horsmann and JWA? Am I missing something??

Holman & Moody wre responsible for the MkII, but John Wyer's team at FAV Slough was responsible for the original GT40. See Wyer's autobiography "The Certain Sound", pp122-125, in which he describes the development of the original Lola GT into the GT40.

It was the initial lack of success of the GT40 that prompted Ford to go to the MkII. Post 1967, with two victories at LM, they handed it all over to Wyer, now with his own company JWA, whose thinking was vindicated by two victories with the "original" GT40 in 68 and 69.

JWA were tasked with support for exisiting GT40s for some years afterwards.

[AU N EGL]

Originally Posted by Le Vieux

Holman & Moody wre responsible for the MkII, but John Wyer's team at FAV Slough was responsible for the original GT40. See Wyer's autobiography "The Certain Sound", pp122-125, in which he describes the development of the original Lola GT into the GT40.

It was the initial lack of success of the GT40 that prompted Ford to go to the MkII. Post 1967, with two victories at LM, they handed it all over to Wyer, now with his own company JWA, whose thinking was vindicated by two victories with the "original" GT40 in 68 and 69.

JWA were tasked with support for exisiting GT40s for some years afterwards.

There we go.

Ford GT40
Holman & Moody MKII ( Ford Racing Devleopment partner) - LM24 winner
Ford GT

Three different cars that look alike

[Le Vieux]

Originally Posted by AU N EGL

There we go.

Ford GT40
Holman & Moody MKII ( Ford Racing Devleopment partner) - LM24 winner
Ford GT

Three different cars that look alike

Precisely!
And in no way to be confused with the Ford GT70, which was a rally car

[duke_toaster]

Originally Posted by Le Vieux

Precisely!
And in no way to be confused with the Ford GT70, which was a rally car

Or the GT90 concept car

[cmk]

Or the Mk.IV!

[AU N EGL]

But all know about Ford, they circle their problem.



Just Kidding . . . . .