No way. That was a blatant dive bomb. The GT still ran wide after using the Corvette as its brakes.

Stef, did you notice IMSA.com says FOXSPORTS 1 and Fox sports go app Saturday 1230pm -

Looks to me the GT had the line but the Vette played chicken...and won.

It goes against the spirit and entire idea of the class. I’m not saying hey shouldn’t be there, I’m saying they need to deliver those pos cars already. How long does I take to get the infotainment systems working? The Ford side of the deal have really dropped the ball.

So they had never run a real qualifying set-up until LeMans? I can believe that. In doing this they can deny any knowledge of knowing that they were sandbagging all season till up to that point, no evidence to prove so, and no accurate data for a true BOP adjustment... don’t show your cards till LeMans. This Iis the…

The names I was called in that bashing post weren’t even amusing, it was just... sad. Do you think its a reflection on the U.S. education system, or just the FoMoCo target demographics' intellect?

“In other words, perhaps the Ford GT isn’t the dominant car everyone thought it was in context of a full-season run.”

No, it's not implied. If you don't understand WEC then you would assume they won the whole race, but they didn't, they only won in there class, they were many cars behind the number 1 car: the one that actually won the race.

TWO... Yes, TWO Ford GT articles in one day! The Jalopnik hipsters rejoice!

Can we bash the Corvette now? Oh wait, the Daily-Jalopnik-Bash-the-Corvette Post was earlier. My bad.

I never said why they didn’t go LMP1 (and your explanation is correct), just that the class they did choose to go into has performance balancing which they accepted.

Briscoe noted that only that one of the team’s wins in WTSC has been on outright pace.

Ford could have gone LMP1 racing, where there is no performance balancing, but they chose not to. Performance balancing is also the only reason they were allowed to race a GT class without the production cars being finished yet. You have to take the good with the bad.

It still kind of irks me that they can race in a GT class without having delivered a single road car to a customer. Maybe the mid-engined Corvette will just be a race car they plan to sell at a future date.

It came as such a surprise to everyone that even we said they had to have been sandbagging, but the Ford drivers swear it was just the difference made by their qualifying setup

So let me see if I’ve got this right:

Waaaa waaaa waaaa we built a car to be fast and the evil Mr. IMSA keeps slowing us down because other cars are inferior (while being subjected to similar balancing restrictions) waaa waaa waaaa

Kind of disingenuous to say “The new Ford GT is perhaps best known for winning the 24 Hours of Le Mans in its first year.” It won the GT class — it did not win the 24 Hours of Le Mans. That’s like saying Mount Union “won the NCAA College Football Championship last year” because it won the Division III championship.

But Ford didn’t win at Le Mans, they won their class.

Looks at my Fiesta ST in disgust and sadness.

Your article are among the hardest to read.