{"id":496159,"date":"2017-01-01T02:17:43","date_gmt":"2017-01-01T10:17:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportscardigest.com\/\/?p=40024"},"modified":"2024-12-01T23:54:05","modified_gmt":"2024-12-01T23:54:05","slug":"enzos-hot-rod","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/enzos-hot-rod\/","title":{"rendered":"Enzo\u2019s Hot Rod – 1961 Ferrari 250GT SWB\u2008\u201cComp\/61\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"
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1961 Ferrari 250GT SWB\u2008\u201cComp\/61\u201d<\/h1>\n

Inevitably, when the name Ferrari is brought up in conjunction with racing, the first thing that comes to the average enthusiast\u2019s mind is Formula One. After all, Ferrari has amassed 16 Constructors Championships, since World War II, more than double that of the next most winning constructor, Williams. So it\u2019s perhaps easy to understand that in all the attention on Ferrari\u2019s F1 program, the team\u2019s record at Le Mans might get overshadowed.<\/p>\n

Yet, in endurance racing\u2019s crown jewel, the 24 Hours of Le Mans, Ferrari ranks as the third most-winning constructor with nine overall post-war victories. Unlike its Grand Prix championships, however, Ferrari\u2019s Le Mans record is intensively concentrated in just one 10-15 year period, with victory coming first in 1949, then \u201954, \u201955, \u201958 and then every year from 1960\u20131965\u2014a true period of dominance. And yet, even this achievement is eclipsed by a Ferrari record that is all but unrecognized by both casual enthusiasts and the cognoscenti alike\u2014that of Ferrari\u2019s unprecedented domination of Le Mans GT category racing throughout the 1960s.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n