
Ford GT GTE #66 O. Pla / S. Bourdais / R. Briscoe 24 Hours of Le Mans 2019 IXO 1:18

About the Ford GT GTE #66 O. Pla / S. Bourdais / R. Briscoe 24 Hours of Le Mans 2019 IXO 1:18
TL;DR: IXO's 1:18 diecast reproduces the #66 Ford GT GTE driven by Olivier Pla, Sebastien Bourdais, and Ryan Briscoe at the 2019 24 Hours of Le Mans. Diecast construction with tampo-printed sponsor graphics represents the factory GTE program Ford launched in 2016, the year it returned to Le Mans on the GT40's 50th anniversary.
Ford's Le Mans comeback wasn't a one-off publicity stunt. The GTE program ran multiple seasons, and this #66 car represents one of its later years on the grid.
A Factory Program Built on 1966 History
The original GT40 won Le Mans outright four years running through the late 1960s, a result that gave Ford a permanent place in the race's history and a story worth revisiting decades later. Ford returned to Le Mans in 2016 with a new GT built specifically for GTE-class racing, timing the effort to land on the 50th anniversary of that first GT40 victory, and the program continued as a factory effort for several seasons after that milestone year. This #66 car, driven by Olivier Pla, Sebastien Bourdais, and Ryan Briscoe, represents the program in its 2019 form, still running as a works entry rather than having been handed off entirely to customer teams. For collectors following Ford's modern GT racing history, a season this far into the program shows how a manufacturer sustains a factory effort rather than just capitalizing on a single anniversary moment.
IXO's Diecast Rendering of a Le Mans GTE Entry
IXO builds the #66 car's GTE-spec bodywork in diecast, with the wide fenders, low splitter, and fixed rear wing that define modern GT endurance racing aerodynamics. Tampo-printed sponsor graphics carry the car's partner liveries cleanly across the doors and hood, a production method that holds up well at 1:18 where dense racing graphics can otherwise blur under decal application. This piece works best in a collection organized around Le Mans GTE racing specifically, sitting alongside other manufacturer entries from the same era to build out a genuine snapshot of the class rather than a single-brand shelf.















