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The American view
Motor Sport Magazine
|Le Mans
When scouring the international press in the fallout from the Le Mans finish, Bill Boddy found a report from Road & Track that sparked some thoughts.
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When Ford so convincingly dominated the Le Mans 24 Hours this year European journalists with a bias towards Ferrari wrote about the might of Detroit and described in detail why the Ford driver Miles, who had intended to dead-heat with his Ford team-mate, wasn't given the win when the tie was disallowed.
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