The winning Ford GT has been disqualified from Le Mans

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After the party comes the hangover. And what a hangover. Just as the heads of the Keating Motorsports team must have been starting to clear following their Ford GT"s win in the GTE Am class of Le Mans, their car has been disqualified. Ouch. "During the post-race technical checks, the race stewards officially disqualified the #68 (Ford Chip Ganassi Team USA"s Ford GT) and the #85 (Keating Motorsports" Ford GT) for breach of fuel tank capacity regulations," reads an official ACO statement. Ben Keating responded magnanimously, saying his team won"t appeal the disqualification. "We just tried to get too close to the sun.

Date written: 18 Jun 2019

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