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Originally Posted by Nickshu
Yes and no according to the documentary. The later generation GT40 that Ford was winning with used off the shelf Ford parts especially on the engine.
Also its not like Ferrari was using cars you could just go to your local dealership and buy.
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Agreed you couldn't get the Ferrari race cars at the dealer, but with enough $$$$ the dealer could get them from the factory for you.
You can buy a factory race car from Ferrari just like you can from Porsche. They both have race classes and spec cars and spec car racing organizations.
Ferrari offers three different racing versions of the 488: GTE, GT3, and Challenge.
And I bet they'd sell you anything else you want if you have enough $$$$$.
Including an F-1 car.
Porsche offers the 919 hybrid, the 911 RSR and GT3R and cup. And just about anything else $$$$$$.
Try buying a factory race car from ford, they'll give you the number to a local race-car fab shop.
The racing GT-40 engine blocks were made by ford, but that's about it.
The cars were based on a Lola mark 6 and were made in England by or for Lola, all but the mark 4 which was the only GT40 made in the USA.
I believe Dan Gurney's shop built them but I'd have to look it up to be sure.
The street versions probably had factory engines and some other parts, but only a small fraction of the race car parts were actually made by the ford factory.
It's a great story, it is fun to watch and follow, with great heroics and great cars.
But I have a problem when people say that ford beat Ferrari. They didn't. They hired someone to beat Ferrari on their behalf.
And there's nothing wrong with that as long as we don't re-write history to make it something it wasn't.