The IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship is widely regarded as featuring the best GT racing in the world, and a pair of its teams proved it in the 24 Hours of Le Mans, as Ford Chip Ganassi Racing and Scuderia Corsa took class victories in the GTE Pro and GTE Am classes, respectively.

Yes, the No. 2 Porsche 919 Hybrid won overall and in the LM P1 class after the No. 5 Toyota GAZOO Racing TS050 Hybrid failed while leading with less than five minutes to go, but stealing the thunder at the 24 Hours of Le Mans was the Ford Chip Ganassi Teams USA, which took the GTE Pro win and third place in the brand-new Ford GT.

With close to 50 IMSA regular and semi-regular drivers entered in the 2016 running of Le Mans endurance race, no one made more of an impact than the two Ganassi IMSA teams.

“It’s crazy,” said Joey Hand, co-driver of the winning, and pole-sitting, No. 68 Ford GT. “Hashtag America. A lot of great people, that’s what this was all about. We put it all on the line. We didn’t leave anything out there, and the car just kept on truckin’.”

The GTE Pro class is equivalent to the GT Le Mans class in IMSA’s WeatherTech SportsCar Championship.

The two top Ford GTs were both from the U.S. IMSA stable, while the other two are based in Europe. Dirk Muller qualified the No. 68 Ford GT on the class pole with a time of three minutes, 51.185 seconds, with the No. 69 qualifying 0.312 seconds back. Piloting the No. 68 was Hand, Muller and Sebastien Bourdais, with Ryan Briscoe, Richard Westbrook and Scott Dixon in the third-place No. 69.

Second in class was the Risi Competizione Ferrari 488 GTE with Giancarlo Fisichella, Toni Vilander and Matteo Malucelli. Finishing fourth in class was the No. 66 Ford GT from Ganassi’s U.K. stable.

“I’m just lucky to have such great people to work with and for,” Ganassi said. “It’s incredible.”

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