A Full Breakdown On Ford's Return To Le Mans

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🗓️ 6 February 2025

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Kevin Turner hosts the latest episode of the Autosport Podcast alongside Gary Watkins as together, they review the big news coming out of the World Endurance Championship as Ford announced a return to Le Mans for 2027. Together, Kev and Gaz ask why the car is built for the WEC regulations and not their North American counterparts with IMSA, as well as why Ford has decided to pull the trigger on a Prototype return now. There's also a look back at Ford's history of Le Mans participation, including the now-famous GT dynasty of the 1960s to the little-known C100 project of the 1980s. And finally, could McLaren be joining the WEC grid soon? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:52.9	For allspot.com at Alton Magazine, I'm Kevin Turner and this is the Allsport podcast.
1:02.4	We've got some monumental news in the world of sports car racing this week with the announcement
1:07.6	that Ford will be returning to Le Mans 24 as well.
1:10.8	The top flight of sports
1:11.8	guy racing but obviously the headline there is Le Mans and joining me to talk about on that is
1:17.2	the man's been chasing the story and talking to the people trying to find out all the details
1:21.1	Gary Watkins welcome to the Allsport podcast how you doing well good to be here and I'm very
1:26.7	excited about Ford coming back you've had lots of reasons to be here and I'm very excited about Ford coming back.
1:28.9	You've had lots of reasons to be very excited in sports car racing in the last few years with the hypercarcalae, haven't you?
1:33.1	Well, absolutely, you know, it's booming, isn't it?
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