Speaking to Road Track, Johnson (who also happens to be one of a drivers that piloted a GT during Le Mans for a past dual years) says a day during VIR was quick orderly and a record was a finish accident. “It was a final notation deal. we consider we had a two-day notice before we was on a craft to go adult [to VIR],” pronounced Johnson. “It was to countenance an emanate with another automobile … We customarily happened to spin a quick time when we were contrariety something else.”
What’s more, a hardware on palm was likewise confused for record-breaking. Johnson says that a GT in doubt lacked a weight assets that comes with Competition Series models, with a full atmosphere conditioning system, radio, non-titanium exhaust, and all of a compared weight in tow. Road Track also reports that a record-breaking path happened with customarily dual other Ford employees present, in sheer contrariety to a full patrol of mechanics and engineers customarily in assemblage for central path record attempts.