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Video: This is how it feels to drive a Ford GT40

04th September 2017
Ethan Jupp

Look at enough photographs of the Ford GT40 without actually seeing it in motion and you could be forgiven for misunderstanding it as a slight, exotic, dainty little racing creature.

We, of course, know that underneath those swooping haunches and stunning European curves beats the muscular heart of a good old-fashioned, blue blooded American bootlegger. You only really feel the brutality of a GT40 when you’re locked away from those luscious lines in the hot seat, rowing the gears and containing all that power. Laguna Seca visor cam it is, then…

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