![]() ![]() It left David, Andrea and longtime co-driver David Murry to pilot the team’s solo No. The team made the trek to Le Mans in 2011, in what was initially meant to be a two-car effort, with Colin Braun, Boris Said and Anthony Lazzaro tabbed to drive its Michelin-shod GTE-Pro car, but was not granted a race entry and remained on the reserve list. The Robertson’s small Georgia-based team, led by Andrew “H” Smith and lead engineer Lee Penn, took it upon themselves to carry out extensive development work, without the support or backing of Ford, in what turned into one of the true privateer efforts of its time. It was a bold endeavor at the time, with the car, initially built by Doran Racing, struggling in the highly competitive GT2 category in the ALMS. ![]() The story of Robertson Racing began in 2008 when commercial airline pilot David and Andrea Robertson, an airline dispatcher and private pilot, etched out plans to take the Ford GT racing in the American Le Mans Series. It stands as the most recent outing for a Ford or Ford-powered car in the race, prior to this year’s four-car Chip Ganassi Racing effort. ![]() While Ford makes its highly anticipated factory return to the 24 Hours of Le Mans, five years ago, a husband-and-wife team, running with a fraction of the manufacturer budgets, took their own self-built Ford GT to an unthinkable podium finish in the world’s greatest endurance race. ![]()
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