Probably my 10th time watching this!! What a story!! What a race!! To see the passion of the Ford family!! Is exactly why, I bleed ford blue!! Great job Ford !!
“But of course Mr. Ferrari being the consummate Italian that he is, he had the race cancelled so that we couldn’t win the series that year” ~Carroll Shelby. Perhaps the greatest backhanded compliment ever. 😂😂😂
They took down my comment so i am puttjng it upagain. Ford 2nd was worthless in 66. So were his inion. All milles and shelby needed was his money. Other then rhat they had zero use for him. When it came to development ken and shelby had it covered
I wonder if whoever was the head poncho at Ferrari at the time when they heard that Ford was entering the 24hr at Le Mans on the 50yr anniversary with the knew GT40, I would of loved to of been the proverbial fly on the wall just to hear what he said to the people who race their cars in that iconic race,i can just imagine him what ever happens i DO NOT want to see a Ford pass a Ferrari for the win or something to that effect 😆,i wonder if he through a wobbly when it did pass it 🤯🤯🤯
Thank you so much for sharing this with us... Truly appreciate it ... Discovered this film a few years back.. I dont own my own copy... Cheers from Southern California 🇺🇸..
Let me give another account of what happened here. GTE and all of sports car racing then and now have balance of performance (BoP). This is where the governing body controls weight and power of entries in a given class. This keeps manufacturers interested in the sport because it prevents spending wars. It's also why a Mustang GT3 car can compete against a Ferrari and Porsche 911 in Le Mans but I digress. The problem with BoC is that the governing body needs to know how to best peg the performance of a new entry such as the Ford here. A new car has no baseline to adjust against so the rating has to be guessed as best as possible. In this scenario it is widely known that the best time to win such a race is in your FIRST YEAR because the governing body doesn't know what the ultimate performance of your car is. Ford did exactly that this year.
Back then it was Carroll and Ken miles that took what ford had and made it better in 2016 it was ford that did it themselves but I will always be thankful to Carroll for always taking a good car and making it better because performance was his business lol
Those broncos set no limits on the race speed. The actual aerial shots of the broncos are legendary. Just priceless. Yeah James garner I am a fan. He mixed it with the best of the best in his career. Great narrator. He's a natural.Another world war hero James garner. Were ever you are i hope you're making a mile .😅😅
as its the first ever proper all ford supercar i find it really disappointing they couldn't bring it to market properly to be put up against the first mid engine corvette .
1st ever? This is the 3rd iteration of the Ford GT Supercar. Ford was racing mid engined Sports Cars back in the early 60s with the Ford GT, the Mangusta and The Pantera. Corvettes with mid-engined power were nowhere to be found.
Bad ass my favorite car the gt40. Go Ford showing that American companies are still the best. I have a race car mercury still a Ford. Had it for over 45 years. First on race day.
@@DeanRicci1 I looked that up , but didn't see anything about a street legal T70 , only his team race car , however, having seen what passes as street legal in California , maybe he just took his race car out ,and didn't give a damn about legality??
Myself, I'm just glad that all of these mentioned and many more - left us with what they did. We now get to take the straights flat out, watch the blind curves, and be at peace with ourselves. LET'S ALL GO RACING!
Its a shame he bankrupted a racing giants company over not paying for the cars he ordered. Sir John Surtees car company, he took them to cleaners did Mr Garner. He slipped down the road when l found this out.
This was great. Thank you. Ford would go on to close the decade of the 1960s by denying Porsche their first win in the greatest finish in Lemans history in June. David Hobbs was part of that team finishing third. Great film.
When Formula A became F5000 I got to see Dick Smothers race in Seattle. I forget who won, but DS was a competent driver and brought his car home in one piece. I'm thinking it was '72 as they still had the tall wings.
Makes you think. Must be thousands of workers, in the factory, machine shop, designers and the software they use, and staff, pit crew. drivers, and the boy who brings the cans of drinks round, all of whom must do their job without a mistake for the team to win at Le Mans. If any one of those makes a mistake, the repercussions down the line can make a win into a loss. I know, having run a race team of Me (driver, mechanic, constructor, tea maker, campervan and trailer driver) and wife (also driver, mechanic (except cam timing she could never get the hang of) constructor (except welding) tea maker, sandwich maker {very good} campervan and trailer driver, navigator, chocolate bar buyer, ---- the list goes on and on. If you forget something that lies at home on the workbench, and that's just what you need at the circuit, you are stuck! Now you imagine the complexity of running a professional team of 3 or 4 cars, gosh that really does need everyone to do their job! So well done all you guys, must be wonderful to stand on that podium in front of that huge Le Mans crowd.
Watch Adam Corolla’s “The Racing Life of Paul Newman”. You’ll get to know the real Paul Newman. He was a race car driver that did movies on the side. He was very humble.
I enjoyed this documentary and it is probably the fourth or fifth time that I watched it I have a 1966 Ford GT Superformance reproduction, then I purchased a 2005 Ford Gt, and finally a 2021 Ford GT, so this film is special to me It would be impossible to me which will be my preferred of the three
Man O Man, seeing this again for the first time since I first watched it when it premiered, I was 8yrs old & my Father had just got me my first go-kart & I've loved James Garner ever since, and of course my Dad ☺️Garner, McQueen, Newman & a few other's made famous by Hollywood, all were rabid racer's once bitten by the racing bug & that's a feeling i know oh so well, because I too was bitten & never to be the same again 😉 Thank you for posting this great old racing flick, I can't tell you how much I enjoyed watching it again 💪😎
No wonder that the famous driver from Torrance, California: Parnelli Jones is still around at 90 (as of 3-1-2024)...The long endurance races like "The Baja" makes many strength up over the years. This is an interesting film...Don't think I've seen it before. Garner was great to listen to...just like P.L. Newman was.
J'étais présent en direct en bas de la côte virage un j'ai tout vu l'accident en direct James Gardner avait offert 25K dollars pour celui qui aurais filmer l'accident mais je n'avais pas filmé en direct🥲j'ai tout vu l'accident comme dans ce film, j'ai maintenant 79 ans😅😂je courais en Formule Ford a ce moment la🖕
For one, I am and always will be a James Garner fan. But, ...I can't help but think the purpose of him making this documentary was to recoup ,at least some of the money, he had to have lost in this racing venture of his. Race cars, mechanics, drivers on payroll travel,etc etc etc and no big wins. Just disappointment after disappointment. RIP James
