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Ford GT GTE #68 D. Muller / J. Hand / S. Bourdais Chip Ganassi Racing LMGTE Pro 24 Hours of Le Mans 2016 Winner Minichamps 1:18

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Minichamps' 1:18 diecast Ford GT GTE #68 recreates the Chip Ganassi Racing car that won its class at the 2016 24 Hours of Le Mans, the 50th anniversary of Ford's overall 1966 victory. Diecast construction and correct LMGTE Pro livery anchor an endurance-racing display built around Ford's return to the world's most famous race.
Ford GT GTE #68 D. Muller / J. Hand / S. Bourdais Chip Ganassi Racing LMGTE Pro 24 Hours of Le Mans 2016 Winner Minichamps 1:18
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Specifications
Brand
Ford
Manufacturer
Minichamps
Scale
1:18
Material
Diecast
Model Condition
Used Model
SKU
155168668
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About the Ford GT GTE #68 D. Muller / J. Hand / S. Bourdais Chip Ganassi Racing LMGTE Pro 24 Hours of Le Mans 2016 Winner Minichamps 1:18

TL;DR: Minichamps' 1:18 diecast documents the Ford GT GTE #68, driven by Dirk Müller, Joey Hand, and Sébastien Bourdais to a class win at the 2016 24 Hours of Le Mans. The victory marked the 50th anniversary of Ford's overall win at the same race in 1966, a deliberate, well-documented callback.

Ford built a new GT specifically to mark the 50th anniversary of its legendary 1966 Le Mans victory, and returning to that same race in 2016 to win its class again gave the project a genuinely fitting conclusion.

Ford's 50th-Anniversary Return to Le Mans

1966 remains one of the defining moments in Ford's motorsport history, when the original GT40 finished first, second, and third overall at Le Mans, ending Ferrari's run of victories at the race and cementing a rivalry that has since become the subject of books and films. Ford built the new GT explicitly with that anniversary in mind, developing a modern mid-engine sports car whose racing version would return to the same circuit exactly fifty years later. The #68 car, entered by Chip Ganassi Racing and driven by Dirk Müller, Joey Hand, and Sébastien Bourdais, won its class in the LMGTE Pro category that year, delivering the anniversary result Ford had clearly built the entire program around. That outcome turned what could have been a marketing exercise into a genuine racing achievement, giving the modern GT program real motorsport credibility rather than resting purely on nostalgia.

Diecast Detail on the Class-Winning #68 Livery

The Ford GT's road-race bodywork carries far more aerodynamic detail than a typical street car, with a pronounced rear diffuser, flying buttresses connecting the roof to the rear fenders, and a prominent rear wing, all elements this diecast reproduces with sponsor decals and race numbering specific to the class-winning Le Mans livery rather than a generic Ford GT racing scheme. Minichamps casts the body in zinc alloy, giving the model real weight, while the finer aerodynamic surfaces, the diffuser fins and wing endplates, use separately molded resin or plastic components for sharper edges than a solid metal casting could achieve at this scale. The Gulf-adjacent blue-and-orange-style GTE liveries common to Ford's factory-backed teams that era carry real visual presence on a shelf, and getting the specific #68 car's decal placement correct matters to collectors who know exactly which of the several Ford GT race cars fielded that weekend they are looking at.

Collection Role for an Endurance Racing Anchor

A genuinely documented, historically significant win like this one gives the model more weight as a collection centerpiece than a race entry chosen at random, since the story behind the car, a fiftieth-anniversary callback that actually delivered the intended result, adds context that most race liveries simply do not carry. It sits comfortably at the center of a Ford heritage display alongside GT40 pieces from the original 1960s era, bridging two generations of the same rivalry story, or equally well within a broader Le Mans or endurance-racing collection built around LMGTE Pro class winners across different manufacturers and eras. Displayed with the original GT40 pieces, the pairing tells a complete story of a single rivalry chasing the same result twice, fifty years apart, and few other subjects in the endurance-racing catalog offer that kind of direct historical echo.

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