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PRETTY AS Petunia; A GT40 by any other name smells just as sweet.(Ford GT)(Product/Service Evaluation)

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Byline: Natalie Neff

Turn Six is elusive. It doesn't even look like a turn, more like the exit to a large hairpin. We keep forcing the Ford GT's nose to turn in way too early, plowing the front tires and setting the car up to sail far too wide on exit. But its almost perfect balance absorbs the gaffes, forgives the sudden lifts at the apex, the braking on exit to keep the car's nose on the tarmac. It takes us nearly 20 circuits at Western Michigan's Gingerman Raceway to nail that turn, but nail it we did. Well, almost, anyway.

They say that to run the turn correctly requires a squeeze of the throttle coming out of Turn Five, then-wait for it, steady, ...

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