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Mission accomplished. Really. Mission accomplished.
Fifty years after stunning the motorsports world by defeating Enzo Ferrari’s fleet of bright red racers in the French 24 Hours of Le Mans, Ford Motor Co. has triumphed again. For this year’s running of the world’s most famous endurance race, Ford brought four of its all-new 2017 Ford GT supercars and they performed brilliantly on the big stage, finishing first, third, fourth and ninth in the highly competitive GTE Pro class. A non-factory Ferrari campaigned by an American team finished second.