Took the wife to see it last night. Both of us enjoyed it a lot. Just curious how factual the story was. Anyone know?
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They have Ken listening to the 33rd,1965, race on the radio when he was actually driving in it.
First year the GT40 ran.....1964.....I believe 3 raced......but all failed to finish.
BUT......Richie Ginther.....mentioned in the movie......started 8th, in 1964, and was told to beat on the Ferraris.
The Ferraris started 1&2 I think. Richie started 8th. But in 2 laps he was the one that blew by the Ferraris, all of them down The Straight,to take the lead, by reving the engine higher, and had a 40 second lead after an hour.
This is what worried Enzo. In 1964......the movie just skipped the first year.
Then Carroll took over for 1965........10 of the 11 cars failed to finish
They also left out the fact that for the first 2 years that the GT40s won.66&67,all the cars were built in Europe.
It was a Lola. It was between a Lotus and a Lola. Lotus wanted Ford-Lotus on the car.
Ford didn’t. Lola built the cars
And as has been said. The other drivers were great. Look at Dan Gurney’s history(played in the movie by his son)
He won in Sprint cars,NASCAR,Indy 500,Top Fuel dragsters, formula 1, and Lemans.
Ken was great!!!! They just made it out like , poor ken, does everything and never gets any credit,
And Carrol was a character and con man. Don’t know if all the things they showed were real. But more and stranger ones did.
