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STRAPPED INTO the slim-hipped driver’s seat, my helmet bumping the roof, my heart in my throat, I swung the nose of the pharmaceutical-yellow Ford GT toward the main straight of Le Mans and opened the taps. Destiny.
Officially, and for tax purposes, I went to France last month to test this car, the DOT-approved version of Ford’s Le Mans-winning GT, now being built at a rate of one per day by Ford’s assembly partner, Multimatic, in Ontario, Canada. Unofficially, my audience was with la belle circuit: the towering circus…