Mustang GTD at Nurburgring?

[blacksheep-1]

Who was the wheel man?

 

[Fat Boss]

Dirk Muller.

 

[FastEd]

Video: Dyno Testing, The Old-Fashioned Way: The GT40 Story

A 1967 Ford promotional film shows the company's early efforts to use dyno testing to improve its LeMans racing results.

www.enginelabs.com

Ford used a dyno and a bunch of computers in the 60s to simulate running the 427 engines at Le Mans for the GT40s.

 

[blacksheep-1]

Video: Dyno Testing, The Old-Fashioned Way: The GT40 Story

A 1967 Ford promotional film shows the company's early efforts to use dyno testing to improve its LeMans racing results.

www.enginelabs.com

Ford used a dyno and a bunch of computers in the 60s to simulate running the 427 engines at Le Mans for the GT40s.

Yes they did.
What most folks don't know is that during the space race in the 60s. Ford, Chrysler and GM all had aerospace divisions. They were on the cutting edge of technology. Chrysler had the
" whale" a fully instrumental van that went wherever their RnD Charger went. ( A company called Turbo Action owned by a friend of mine named Paul Forte was the first to get the torqueflight Trans to work properly in a dragster application.)

 

[Ludachris]

https://www.roadandtrack.com/news/a63186860/mustang-gtd-driver-dirk-muller-breaks-down-record-nurburgring-lap-attempt/

 

[Ludachris]

I was hoping to get a photo from this lap from Ford to use as one of the calendar covers but didn't want to push off the calendar any more trying to get permission.

 

[Ewheels]

I was hoping to get a photo from this lap from Ford to use as one of the calendar covers but didn't want to push off the calendar any more trying to get permission.

That would've been very cool

 

[Ludachris]

That would've been very cool

yeah, I thought so too.