(wind blowing, car engine, helicopter sounds)
From the history of Le Mans and especially in GT.
Uh, I don't think we we've seen the, in the bust so competitive.
I think this will be the toughest race you've ever seen at the moment.
It's a massive GT field.
17 cars, factory drivers, factory team.
You're up against the best
4 Ford GTS.
We really push each other hard.
We're not here for being second or third.
We want to win the race
I expect to that'd be close. Uh,
Titanic fight for many, many hours,
We go like hell.
We will go like hell.
Two lines of cars, please. Two lines of cars.
(uplifting music plays)
The flag is waved and we are a go!
(uplifting music plays)
We've got the Ferrari alongside of the Ford GT #68 goes through.
We are 21 hours to go, it's really to and fro so far.
but were only just getting hopefully 6 to 7, 10, you're going to get harder and harder.
Looking at rod brisket side by side, side by side, looking at a such
lucrative Ford Ferrari Corvette BMW.
Are we going to get 16 cars
get to the end of this race?
68 car's doing great.
We're up to 2nd place right now and fighting for the lead.
The Ford now leads at Le Mans!
Wow!
(uplifting music plays/car engines)
Something's broken, something's broken
Okay, bring it in Billy bring it right, as best you can.
That car was actually, generally the quickest Ford through all of the qualifying.
Billy got together with a car and broke the rear toe.
Like what set him off here.
And he had to do a full lap.
We've gone down, I think, two and a half laps on, on that wheel,
That completely flipped the entire field.
Now as it gets dark against the wall, all the drivers are giving positive feedback.
So, they just got to, keep pushing through the night.
(car engines/techno music plays)
Into the darkness of the forthcoming night.
This is so much of what Le Mans is about in everybody's minds.
This is the tough part of the race.
Now in the dark, you know, everything seems so much faster, everything happens so much quicker.
People make mistakes.
So, we just got to,
Get our heads down and you know, just keep it, keep it on the black stuff.
And keep moving forward. That's all we can do.
(uplifting music plays/car engines)
Our cars seem to have woken up.
(uplifting music plays)
(techno music plays)
(car engines)
We all pull hard all night long.
So we're sitting P third right now.
So, you know, we just keep digging
18 hours down.
Six to go.
It's the 24's third and fourth
We've got, we've got the pace set, so let's throw the hammer down now.
Here he comes!
Pulls out from behind.
Picks up the toe from behind the Porsche.
Blue on blue paper to paper
Second position in the length of the Le Mans, straight
go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go
Ford up into second place for one lap.
We are now back to a Porsche 12
Mankovecky is moving from lane to lane.
He's got his stuff, it's just very dangerous
what he's doing.
Mankovecky can't do this
He's easing bowl day onto the film. Four days got dirty tires, but he's so good close.
Hours ago, here at Le Mans
yeah. Has been a, it's been a tough one.
There's been a lot of race in this.
This race was, it really was like, we thought it's.
It's been a dog fight all the time.
I'd love to be on the podium again.
I've been up there twice before. If we come home
third, we'll call it a good day.
(radio mumbles)
(car engines)
Brings the car to the flag.
We drove as hard as we possibly could.
Three years, three podiums.
We want to win, but we had a great performance and the teams did a great job.
We're going to come back next year and we're going to be hungrier.
Just proud to be part of this Ford Race team.