GREATEST RACE CAR of all time? Well, the GT40 has to be high up in the list, doesn’t it? Few cars have dominated the Le Mans 24 Hours so convincingly, and so evocatively, in our lifetimes. Even the Porsche 917 didn’t notch up as many podium places.
And of the GT40s, there’s none greater than chassis P/1046, which took the GT40’s first victory after so many early failures. It survived 3000 miles almost non-stop for 24 hours and was declared the winner because it had travelled 20 metres further than its sister car.
It seems incredible, then, that not long after that 1966 victory, 1046 was dismantled and bits and pieces of it mounted on display boards. Later it was rebuilt to race one last time, later still it was…
