Came a cross an interesting article on Fords R&D processes and how the race program benefits street cars and vice versa, which is quite interesting [www.enginelabs.com]

One very striking revelation from the above pic is just how short the car is in overall height which is revealed as about or less than waist high of the flag man.

I was initially not in agreement when Ford chose to drop the GT to an ecoboost V-6 from the previous V-8 engines they used, but smokin LeMans with a V-6 says reams about the choice they made