Ford v Ferrari - What really happened

The 1966 Lamang 24 Hours was one of the most important races in motor sport history, immortalized on the big screen by the Ford. In our film, Hmong 66 was about two automotive giants facing off in the story of two very different ones. words just shut your mouth and let me do my thing while the film focuses on the story of the relationship between Cal Miles and Carroll Shelby the true meaning was the fight between the manufacturers we have to keep in mind that the creation of La Mora is in 1923 and from the beginning until, say, the mid-60s, the car manufacturers were in the shopping center of all our European car manufacturers and the best of that era is Ferrari with nine overall wins, oh, never, never, a American automobile manufacturer, Walnut Lemoine. point it is true that at the beginning the father learned not to hit her to destroy her because of that economic war they had trying to buy Ferrari so I mean l'amour was back as a fielder to resolve the difference they have between the two.

The two guys, Enzo Ferrari and Henry, fought in the mid-60s, which was an era, actually, until the mid-70s, when endurance racing and Formula 1 were unequal in terms of technology, in terms of budget and in terms of global audience and, in turn, media interest. Well, the two categories

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went head to head for the global audience and to get the best drivers, the best manufacturers and the best teams in the blue corner, the blue oval, Henry Ford II personally oversaw the racing project driven. Ferrari used Ford's interest to ensure that Fiat bought a majority stake in his company, ensuring that he could remain at the helm of its racing projects when Ford decided to enter Llama.

The way they changed racing was also huge in terms of budget. because we all know that they had an unlimited budget for this race for the first time, whether it was Formula One or endurance racing or even NASCAR, money was no problem to win at the red turn. Ferrari took Lamang with the same seriousness as those. days as Formula One runs today, Enzo Ferrari was all about racing, he started making cars and selling them just to compete, the Scuderia had won the previous six editions and Enzo Ferrari was in no mood to let fourth place in particular break Their bastion of success was a perfect rivalry with automotive giants who

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hated each other.

Enzo Ferrari said some really nasty things about Henry Ford II, so the stakes were high. The 1965 race had been a disaster for Ford. He couldn't af

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another failure. It really was a winner, it all took effort on his part, in particular, Henry Ford II was the honorary starter and waved the 55 drivers across the track and jumped into the cars, seconds after doing so, General Widmore's four and Ludovico Scariotti's Ferrari collide on the right. ahead of Kim Miles in the number one car, leading to Miles being forced to pit at the end of the first lap as his door needed to be repaired if a champion, Graham Hill, was initially leading in the number seven Ford and the four takes a 1-2-3.

He was leading at the end of the first hour with miles still making up the ground he had lost. Dan Gurney was now ahead of the number three Ford, but Myers was sweeping the field and would take the lead in the 3rd hour at 8 p.m. only three cars remained on the lead lap Lamar and Petrov Rodriguez's leading stretcher in the best place Ferrari sucks is the initial pace that seems certain that the records will fall, but it has a mechanical cost as both Ferrari and 4 suffer technical failures before , a major accident occurs. when jean-claude OG lost control and spilled oil and his heart was hit by francois parkia in issue 54 OG suffered two broken arms and his car caused a huge fire, it changed the nature of the event, the spectators as darkness descended , the rain began to fall.

The Ferrari's hands were more agile and suddenly the Scuderia sank in the middle when Ford had problems with the brakes, which was its Achilles heel. The solution to this was a quick change system that allowed them to change both the rotors and pads simultaneously before midnight. The rain had let up and Ford established his previous 1/2 mile ago. Ferrari suffered overheating problems and one by one, the beautiful 330 p3 s and privateer Ts abandoned the race with transmission and engine failures that cost the Italian brand Scariotti dearly as well. crashing in the number 24 Ferrari was not without problems, as Gurney retired from the lead with a head gasket failure at 9am.

Sunday morning after having been running very hard against miles at a time even though this Ford had a 1-2-3. with Miles' number one car well ahead of Bruce McLaren and Chris Amon, the number 2 car very early in the morning, the number one car driven by Ken Miles and Dana Ewell was leading the race with more than two laps ahead of the car number two, Chris Amon, Bruce in the back. line and then the gap was really bigger we climbed number five and the others still in the race distance the five prototypes well stacked behind these are the two Fords in front the war between the two then came the finish line that remains disputed to this day Next, under instructions from Force Racing director Leo Bieber, Miles was told to slow down the pace.

Ford wanted the final lineup that posed for the world's cameras to see its moment of glory in its post-race press release, because it insisted it was attempting a tie for its winning cars without knowing that race organizers had It was decreed that in this event the car that would clock the longest distance would be the winner and that was the McLaren Amenca which started far behind the human mile machine in the movie you see miles crossed the line in front of McLaren on a beautiful sunny day which did not happen at the beginning it was raining and McLaren took the checkered flag first with miles clearly in second place checked before the finish line is not this is not a documentary sold very little The details of course they understood it, or they understood it wrong or they cut the corners, but that's a movie, so you have to change a little to make some small details a little bigger to have a perfect understanding of an overall assistance.

I mean not only the passionate fans of the doctor in the sports cap. I don't trust him Minj, we hear he's hard, no no, Ken is a puppy, there are certain things you can say, we're not exact, I mean you know my dad never pitched. a wrench and a broken windshield never got into a fistfight with Shelby, but that said the representation of his personality was pretty close, you know, he could be short-tempered, aloof, or even arrogant, but he was probably with other people and Moses . He had so much confidence in himself that they didn't really care about that food, they didn't care about the miles, that part of the movie was accurate, but the big mystery is how he missed those laps.

He was leading the race according to one version of events. comes from Shelby crew chief Charlie Agra, when he was the team's mechanical whiz kid and says there were so many weak brakes that they were destined for miles, his car was actually taken over by the steam-powered McLaren, which meant that miles got a set of brakes that just couldn't. They drove with them they were not prepared and he just wasn't anticipating the way they would handle the miles. They had to make two additional pit stops while they figured out

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was going on, they found an extra set of brake rotors, but no one was sure where. whether they are lying down or not, but you sent it again was this self-sabotage on Ford's part to push the drivers they preferred to the upper echelon.

No, I don't think any of the guys' corporation there made an effort to sabotage or favor any particular guy, they just wanted Ford done and they wanted one, two, three, if possible, so yeah, they reduced the my dad's speed, but you know, depending on who you talk to, he was leading for a lot of laps that he's reading. you know, 40 seconds or four minutes, you know, it just depends on McLaren and Amon collapsing among the winners with henry

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ii on the podium moments later, they were joined by human miles walking and congratulating scimitar. I think Christian Bale played thousands very accurately in the I think Ken shook Henry's hand on the podium, probably without saying a word, then walked up to Bruce and, after drinking his champagne, probably asked him about those brakes.

There is victory within defeat. True, he achieved this record-breaking lap. They did it. in their own way, it's no wonder corporations behave this way, they don't pretend to be purist races like these guys are, but they still knew they did it, they really did it, now there's a version where you can make a the whole movie about it,

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there, the different perspectives, the different ideas, everyone to this day doesn't agree about what really

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, you know, it's always difficult, you know, when you're making a movie for our movie, It's very difficult to distill people's lives. in that amount of time, so you have to take leave and you have to figure out what your angle of attack is and and once they narrowed it down to this relationship, you know you have Ken and Shelby and then Ken with his wife and son, and that's just you know what kind of perfect amount to make a movie about, so there's a question about whether my dad was a little angry with the company and actually hit the brakes, slightly disturbing that perfect ending. or whether McLaren got along a little is another one of those debatable things and if you talk about what I heard from Chris Amon, I wouldn't be surprised if he did that and then you heard a story from MacLaren, supposedly a letter to his father that he set it all up like that which for me no, it's just a part of the story and I'm fine, it happened, it happened, I'm sorry my dad didn't win, I wish he would have, but you know that's the way it is it's fine, everything's fine I think the ladies in front of the podium they say it all I would love to know what you heard him say Ford's victory in 1966 paved the way for a series of successes for the blue oval that would win the classic Frenchman three more times and complete Ferrari Ferrari has never won Lamont directly again just think about that four gt40 it was a car that changed the sports car landscape forever this victory was seismic in every way in the battle between henry ford ii and enzo

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