The No. 67 and No. 66 Ford GTs finished Saturday’s ‘Bapco 6 Hours of Bahrain’ in fourth and sixth positions, netting the Ford Chip Ganassi Racing team second overall in GTE Pro in its inaugural FIA WEC season.
The Ford GT looked poised to take the championship in its first season of endurance racing after taking back-to-back victories in Japan and China, but came up short in Bahrain. The two cars ran fourth and sixth for nearly the entire race, with the No. 67 running as high as third before getting edged out of the podium position of one of the AF Corse Ferrari 488s.
“It was a tough...
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