Ford will return to Le Mans next year.
Fifty years after it recorded a remarkable 1-2-3 placing and won in the three following years, Ford now intends to field a four-car team at what many regard as the ultimate endurance race.
Ford has yet to announce drivers but it has selected two teams to run the cars, Chip Ganassi Racing with Felix Sabates, and enter other sports car races to prepare for the French classic.
The return of Ford was announced on the eve of this year’s endurance race, which will be started by Bill Ford, and to highlight the company’s intention to deliver 12 new performance vehicles by 2020.
The racers will be homologated from the Ford supercar unveiled earlier this year and due to go on sale next year, and what many considered the spiritual successor to the GT40s which swept the field in 1966.
