![]() ![]() “The exhibits are sensational and many of us had seen the drawings, and had numerous meetings about what it was going to look like, but to finally physically see it, it just took my breath away," Ford said. Edsel Ford is a Henry Ford board member, longtime executive of the company founded by his great-grandfather and NASCAR Hall of Fame member based on his contributions to motorsports. “The first time I saw the exhibit it completely exceeded my expectations," Edsel Ford II told AP. Foyt memorabilia is the 1960 Meskowski-Offenhauser Indy Roadster that helped Foyt to his first three Indy car championships in 1960, 19. Trevor Bayne’s 2011 winning Daytona 500 car is on display, as well as the “Yellow Submarine” Chevy-Penske Indy car Rick Mears drove to his third Indianapolis 500 victory in 1988. The film follows two-time Ind圜ar champion Josef Newgarden (a Chevy driver) preparing for the Indianapolis 500 Brehanna Daniels, the first Black female tire changer in NASCAR multi-generational Bonneville Salt Flats racer Megan Volk drag racer Brittany Force and Tim Hardy, a Pikes Peak International Hill Climb racer. ![]() The “Driven to Win” exhibit took more than a decade from concept to its opening earlier this year. ![]() In this image provided by the The Henry Ford, a person tries the auto racing simulator, part of the Driven To Win exhibit at the The Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, Mich. “It takes you through all the different racing series and disciplines, and ties in people and technology and how that has been transferred to road cars.” “What was impressive to me is that the exhibit takes you through the timeline of motorsports right from Sweepstakes all the way to today,” Mark Rushbrook, global director of Ford Performance, told AP. 10, 1901, novice racer Ford drove Sweepstakes to a victory over the more established Alexander Winton at a horse racing track in Grosse Pointe, Michigan. Amid doubts over his ability as both an engineer and businessman, Ford believed a successful race car would restore his credibility. One of the vehicles on display at the entrance of the 24,000 square-foot exhibit is “Sweepstakes,” the 1901 race car Henry Ford used following the failure of Detroit Automobile Co., his first car company. It’s housed in the same area as the winning car Ford used in the automaker's 2016 return to Le Mans - a 50th anniversary celebration of Ford's 1-2-3 finish in the 1966 endurance race. The Sports Car Performance Center features a full-size clay model of a Ford GT. The permanent exhibit takes visitors on a timeline of motorsports, from soap box derbies to Indy cars, stock cars and dragsters. "I’m proud that GM could help bring it to members and guests of this great museum.” “‘Driven To Win’ documents and celebrates those contributions, with an exciting and comprehensive presentation of the past, present and future of motorsports," he said. “Racing is the embodiment of American innovation in the world of sports, but its reach has long stretched beyond the track to our showrooms, our roads and our culture,” Mark Reuss, president of General Motors, told The Associated Press of the exhibit. It took more than a decade from conception until the doors opened earlier this year as part of a rare collaboration between rivals Ford and General Motors, which is the presenting sponsor of the exhibit. The museum's newest wing includes a sprawling, interactive “Driven to Win” exhibit that provides a comprehensive look at motorsports in all its forms.
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