All the Gt40s,
from the MKII on, ran the "Weismann Locker". Pete Weismann
also designed the top-loader 4 speed transmission.
Bruce Mclaren and Chris Amon won the 1966 24 hours. Ford wanted
a formation finish for their first win and ordered Ken Miles,
who led most
of the way, to slow down and let the other two MKIIs catch up.
As they came down for the finish, Bruce never slowed up, and blew
past for the win! Bruce later revealed to Pete that he had no
intention of finishing 2nd!
Roy Lunn hired
Michele Albert away from Ferrari and brought in Pete Weismann
to design the transmissions of the Ford MKII. Pete was never given credit for the design
because he wasn't a "Ford Engineer".
A.J. Foyt and Dan Gurney teamed up in 1967 and crushed the opposition.
Both A.J. and Dan were not to excited about staying up and
racing for the 24 hours, so between themselves, they
decided to run the car as hard as they could in the hope of breaking
it.
At one point during the night, nobody could not find Dan (who had gone to sleep!
), and A.J. had to run a double stint! The car held up
and consequently broke all the records. They covered 3,250
miles at an average speed of 135.48 mph!
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