GT40s Celebrate Legendary le Mans Victory

Each year brings its raft of anniversaries, and this year we will be up to our necks in Ford GT40s as the famous MKII cars celebrate their legendary 1-2-3 finish at Le Mans in 1966. It will start at Race Retro where three exact replicas of the winning cars will be on display to celebrate the 60th anniversary, while Goodwood has already gone one better and promised that for the first time in a decade, the three Ford GT Mk IIs driven by Bruce McLaren and Chris Amon, Ken Miles and Denny Hulme, and Ronnie Bucknum and Dick Hutcherson will not only appear together, but also run at the Festival of Speed (9-12 July) and, two months later at the Goodwood Revival.

The Duke of Richmond gave thanks to the owners of the cars, “I am absolutely delighted that the historic 1-2-3 Ford GT Mk IIs will be reunited at Goodwood this year. The legendary result of the 1966 24 Hours of Le Mans is immortalised in motorsport history, and it will be incredibly special to see these three cars run together once again. We are hugely grateful to the Shelby family, Miller Family Automobile Foundation and Rob Kaufman, RK Motors for making this possible.”