The Road to Victory:
How Ford won The 24 Hours of Le Mans
G. Scott (left) on Douglas Shierson Racing Team
(1980) Photo: M. Sprowle
A posthumous publication...
Written on the 1970s by a British racing engineer covering the competitions Le Mans from 1964-67. This manuscript hidden for 50 years, discovered after the author´s passing in 2024, and published for the first time in 2026.
This historical book was registered in the catalog of the Sylvania Public Library, Ohio, USA, in 2026, where Graham Scott lived until his final days.
About The Author
Born in 1950 in England, Graham Scott (†) trained in automotive and precision engineering in the United Kingdom, after completing his studies, he worked with Formula 1–related organizations and later moved to the United States, where he joined teams such as Penske, Douglas Shierson Racing, and Morgan Racing, contributing to the development and performance of several iconic drivers of the Can‑Am and open‑wheel era. He subsequently transitioned into the automotive industry, working with Monroe and later with major U.S. manufacturers as a brake specialist and senior engineer, a role he refined during his final years as a technical consultant until 2022. He passed away in Ohio, USA, in 2024 at the age of 74.
G. Scott (center) leading Morgan Racing Team (c. 1977)
It is a tribute to the culmination of a career of Graham Scott in the racing car industry. Published in 2026 by the engineer’s widow, Graciela Cossío, this manuscript remained hidden for nearly 50 years.
The story is narrated by a young Graham Scott who, in the early 1970s, set down what he had witnessed at the 24 Hours of Le Mans from 1964 to 1967 — a firsthand account written from a technical perspective, precise and direct. This same young man, who had already been hired by Model Cars Magazine UK at the age of 18 in 1968 and who was making his first publications for the magazine. The data indicates that he wrote the manuscript in the 1970s, the same decade in which he began managing the Morgan Racing Team in England, where the young driver James Hunt began his career. At the age of 24, Graham moved to Canada to work in Formula Atlantic, where he began collaborating with fellow young driver Guilles Villenueve. From there, his career unfolded in North America.
The story from the observer
The book is illustrated with technical drawings, photographs, and race charts, and includes a glossary defining the terminology associated with the technological advancements of that historic period in competitive racing.
This manuscript remained unpublished from 1970 to 2026. It is a piece of the history of motor racing told by someone inside the motor racing industry, a connoisseur whose secrets and observations were recorded in this manuscript, and many others were lost forever with him.
Above: from "L´Auto Journal", 1966
The Original Manuscript from 1970
Unpublished Photographs - Official Le Mans Data - Author's Technical Notes - Original Illustrations from The Author Archive
Index. Original Manuscript of G. Scott
Above: the Lola GT.
Below left: 4.2 litre dry-sump V8 and colotti transaxle.
Below right: GT40 interior, with passenger-side seat pads removed
Avobe: the Ford Mark III, the front suspension of which is featured below.
Extra Bonus: Archives from the Engineer´s collection
Iconic Gilles Villeneuve . c. 1976
The published book includes a photographic archive from the author that captures the very essence of competitive motor racing in North America during the 1970s and 1980s. This includes images of the legendary Penske F1 team and the iconic Mark Donohue, as well as historic moments with the Villeneuve brothers and F1 champions James Hunt and Emerson Fittipaldi at their peak.
This is a historical archive that every motorsport enthusiast and connoisseur should have in their library.
"The only book on Le Mans that contains technical data documented and verified by an engineer who went on to work alongside Mark Donohue, Gilles Villeneuve, James Hunt and Bobby Rahal."
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