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The plot follows a determined team of American and English engineers and designers, led by automotive designer Carroll Shelby and his English driver, Ken Miles, who are hired by Henry Ford II and Lee Iacocca to build a race car to defeat the perennially dominant Italian racing team Scuderia Ferrari at the 1966 24 Hours of Le Mans race in France.
Ford v Ferrari (known as Le Mans '66 in the UK and other territories) is a sports drama film distributed by 20th Century Fox, based on the rivalry between Ford and Ferrari for dominance at Le Mans. Directed by James Mangold, starring Matt Damon and Christian Bale in the roles of Carroll Shelby and Ken Miles, respectively. The film was released ...
Miles was born on 1 November 1918 in Sutton Coldfield, then in Warwickshire, now in the city of Birmingham. [1] He was the son of Eric Miles and Clarice Jarvis. [2] After a failed attempt to run away to the United States, [3] Miles left school at the age of 15 to work as an apprentice at Wolseley Motors, [2] who sent him to a technical school to broaden his knowledge of vehicle construction. [3]
Shelby is portrayed by Matt Damon in Ford v. Ferrari, a 2019 film about the 1960s rivalry between Ford and Ferrari at the Le Mans auto race and Shelby's friendship with race car driver Ken Miles. Shelby American: The Carroll Shelby Story is a 2019 feature-length documentary about Shelby's life and career. [66]
Ken Miles lost the chance to win all three events in the same year when a problem with the Ford team orders for a photo finish made him lose the 1966 24 Hours of Le Mans. This incident was dramatized in the 2019 film Ford v Ferrari. Miles died two months later testing the Ford J-car. Hurley Haywood and Al Holbert have won all three races at ...
Michael Mann's sports drama, "Ferrari," stars Adam Driver and Penelope Cruz as Italian entrepreneur Enzo Ferrari and wife Laura. See the real-life figures alongside the cast.
Ford v Ferrari (2019) – sports drama film about automotive designer Carroll Shelby and race car driver Ken Miles, who lead a team of American engineers and designers from Ford to build a race car that can beat legendary Ferrari [81]
Kenneth Mitchell Todd Williamson/Getty Images Nancy Drew and Star Trek: Discovery actor Kenneth Mitchell died after a five-year battle with ALS. He was 49. “With heavy hearts we announce the ...