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We watched Ford v Ferrari on Disney+.

This is a watch along so you do need to bring your own copy of the episode to see it, there is no PIP or show audio. There is a visual cues off the top and a timer to help you sync up.

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PopeyeNelson

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Paul T Hewes

This is now the closest I have seen Steven come to breaking...

MAV293 (MARK)

The Shelby/Ford story is one of my favorite subjects and other than the people that actually lived it, I humbly say I would put my knowledge of the subject up against anyone!! I had known for quite sometime that 20th Century Fox had wanted to make a movie about Ford's first win at LeMans in 1966 and I was thrilled when I got word that it was really happening! Of course the thing I was most concerned about was how much of the story would they tell and if it would be accurate. I was truly worried that Hollywood would do what it always does and try to make it more dramatic than the real life actual story. First let me say, I love this film because even though it is flawed, it got the essence of the story just right. The flaws are the timeline in which events happen and the scenes that were amped up for dramatic license. Hollywood always believes that you must have an antagonist and protagonist and unfortunately they chose Leo Beebe to be the "Bad Guy" when in fact he is fondly remember by people that knew him as a decent man and great leader. Here are a few more facts that were not actually right or wrong entirely. 1) The incident with the race officials and the trunk actually happen but Ken Miles was not involved and it happen in Europe. The FIA required that a block of wood that resembled luggage had to fit in the automobile, when it didn't fit Shelby had his crew hammer small indents in the trunk to make it fit. This can be seen in pictures of the original 289 FIA Cobras. The Cobras also didn't have speedometers (because race cars don't need speedometers which Shelby pointed out to the officials) so Shelby had his crew mount it as far away as possible from the driver all the way on the right side of the dash. 2) Shelby had a relationship with Ford long before the GT40 program was started. 3) They touch on it a little bit in the film that Shelby was just as great at being a salesman as he was at racing and making fast cars. When he built the very first Cobra, instead of contacting all the interested car magazines and journals to test a fleet of cars which was standard practice, because he only had the one car he would call each magazine separately and each time he met with someone new he would have the car repainted to make it seem he had multiple cars!!!! 4) The Ford/Ferrari deal fell apart because Enzo Ferrari wanted complete control of Scuderia Ferrari which is the race team subsidiary of Ferrari. When Ford would not agree Enzo said FU. The Fiat deal didn't come until almost 5 years later. 5) Enzo Ferrari was not at the 1966 LeMans race as portrayed in the film. 6) Ken Miles led the 1966 24 Hours of Daytona by quite a bit for the win and did not make a last lap past. He also won the 12 Hours of Sebring and came the closest of any driver in history to winning the Triple Crown of Endurance Racing. 7) Phil Remington was a side character in the film but was the true hero in keeping the GT40 together. He did not have any type of engineering degree and was basically just a Southern California hot rod guy that had a really big brain!!!! 8) The 1966 Le Mans finish was also not as it happen. It was raining at the finish and Ken Miles did cross the line first. The issue was in the rules. At the time if two cars on the lead lap finished close enough together, the car that travelled the further distance would win. In this case it was 8 meters or about 24 feet!!! The #2 Ford GT40MkII driven by Bruce McClaren and Chris Amon for the Miles-Hulme team started 60 feet behind Ken Miles team and because Ken slowed down for the other two Fords to catch up the #2 car made up the difference by 8 meters! They are two great documentaries that tell the real story, "The 24 Hour War" and "8 Meters". I could go on but it doesn't change the fact it is one of the best racing films ever along with the 1967 film "Grand Prix", Ron Howard's 2013 film "Rush" and the maybe the greatest of all in Steve McQueen's 1971 love story with racing "Le Mans" where as a racer myself he quotes my favorite line in film history when he says, "Racing is Life, Everything that happens before or after.....is just waiting".

MattyB207

Saugus Speedway, located in Saugus, California, was a 1/3 mile oval racetrack that hosted various racing events, including NASCAR events. It was originally built as the Baker Ranch Stadium, a rodeo arena, before being paved for racing. The speedway had a vibrant racing history, particularly from 1979 to 1995, and hosted a NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series event in 1995. The track closed in 1995 and has since been used for swap meets and filming.

Eric Royer

Recommend "Rush" (Chris Hemsworth) and "Le Mans" (Steve McQueen) films, both very good.

Samuel Newman

Morbid, but a fun fact, a lot of the racers featured/named in this film died racing or on the track. Walt Hansgen the guy driving the green GT40 MkII. at Daytona died at LeMans in 1966 during a test lap in a J-car (a prototype of the GT40). Bruce McLaren the technical winner of the race and founder of McLaren died 4 years later in a McLaren during a test lap at Goodwood. Denny Hulme, Ken's racing partner, died in '92 of a massive heart attack behind the wheel of a BMW during the Bathurst 1000. Lorenzo Bandini the Ferrari driver, he won the 24hrs of Daytona in 1967 alongside Chris Amon(didn't die racing), he(Bandini) died at Monaco in 1967 chasing Denny Hulme down. and Ken Miles, obviously, though depicted as brake failure in the film was actually never determined , it was said to be either the brakes or aerodynamics, which they heavily modified, and was the red car at the end the GT40 MkIV.