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Two years ago, Shelby took a team of Fords to Le Mans, managed a fourth-place finish behind three Ferraris. "We threw a scare into Enzo," he crowed. "Next time we'll have his hide." But last year Ferraris swept the first three places at Le Mans, and only...
Twice bitten, thrice cautious. "We're in better shape than we've ever been" was all that Shelby would say last week on the eve of the new season's first big sports-car race-the 24-hour Daytona Continental. Gone were the six Ford GTs that...
Endurance & Speed. Ferrari himself never goes to races, but twelve of his creations were entered in the Continental, including the car that won at Le Mans last year and a 1966 4.4-liter prototype. Then there was the homegrown Chevy-powered Chaparral II, which boasted such refinements as automatic transmission...
Practice was one thing; the race was another. At Daytona as at Le Mans, the accent was on endurance as much as speed, and the Daytona International Speedway's 3.81-mile course qualified admirably as a car killer. Cars had to decelerate violently to as low as 25 m.p.h...
Maybe it wasn't Le Mans. And maybe, as some Ferrari fans insisted, old Enzo had only sent his "second team" to Daytona. But for the first time ever, a U.S. car had won a 24-hour endurance race. Even Luigi Chinetti, the Ferrari team manager and a naturalized...