Once he abandoned a single seater career to pursue GT cars, he got an education on the European approach by competing in Porsches in Germany before coming home to IMSA and signing with BMW to ...

"The subhead is perfect—the turbulent years," said editor Ingram. "IMSA loses Camel GT money—the tobacco money—which was hugely important all those years. Then they replaced that with Exxon.

Doing so will lead to Ford returning to Le Mans in the same year to celebrate its class wins with the legendary GT40 and the GTLM—the racecar version of the Ford GT ... in IMSA's GTP category ...

While the GT’s output can’t match the 710bhp of the IMSA-GTO it’s inspired by, performance figures aren’t too far off – the racer managed a 3.1sec 0-62mph time and a 193mph top speed.