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"I felt wonderful about us winning one, two and three in '66, but Ken Miles, we made a horrible decision in seeing the three cars come over exactly together. It was good politically for Ford,.
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Ken Miles's death marked the lowest point in Ford's Le Mans program. Miles was a gifted engineer and driver who got involved with Ford through his work for Carroll Shelby. Miles won the 24 Hours of Daytona and the 12 Hours of Sebring in 1966, and placed second at Le Mans, with Ford's GT40 Mark II. Use default description of artifact
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Christian Bale and Matt Damon in Ford v Ferrari and Ken Miles with Carroll Shelby. Photo illustration by Slate. Photos by Merrick Morton/20th Century Fox and Bernard Cahier/Getty Images.
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But intriguingly, Ken Miles' biographer Art Evans (who is one of the few people who discussed the race with Miles before Miles before he was killed during testing, eight weeks after Le Mans) claims that Miles did in fact know that the French distance rule existed.
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By John Kuroski Published April 13, 2022 Updated November 9, 2023 From motorcycle races and commanding World War II tanks to leading Ford to victory over Ferrari at 24 Hours of Le Mans, Ken Miles lived and died in the fast lane.
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Two of the three GT40s were being run by Shelby-American, with the No. 1 car driven by Ken Miles and Denny Hulme in the lead as the final minutes ticked away. But in those last moments, Miles.
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"I'd rather die in a racing car than get eaten up by cancer," Ken Miles is quoted as saying in Go Like Hell: Ford, Ferrari, and Their Battle for Speed and Glory at Le Mans, which tells the same.
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Ken Miles was a British-born racing driver who had been a tank sergeant in the British Army during World War II, he moved to the USA in the early 1950s and become a naturalized American citizen with a well-known love of his new homeland. Much loved by his crew, he was affectionately nicknamed "Teddy Teabag" due to his tea drinking habit.
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Ford's efforts to secure a dead-heat photo finish at Le Mans in 1966 cost Ken Miles victory from a four-lap lead. But was it back luck or intra-team conspiracy? Bruce McLaren controversially shades Ken Miles as the chequered flag is waved at Le Mans in 1966 The Cahier Collection, Bernard Cahier Author Tim Considine
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Kenneth Henry Jarvis Miles (1 November 1918 - 17 August 1966) was a British sports car racing engineer and driver best known for his motorsport career in the US and with American teams on the international scene. He is an inductee to the Motorsports Hall of Fame of America . Early life
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Since 1966 and the well-known "photo-op" finish with the three Ford MK2 prototypes crossing the line yards apart the controversy of a conspiracy by the French organizers to deprive Ford of an all-American finish has raged in America.
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And since the Ford car driven by Bruce McLaren and Chris Amon started the race eight meters (roughly 60 feet) behind Miles (who was in the pole position), Miles is declared the second place.
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To a man, these three observed that Ken Miles got the short end of the stick by Ford's "formation finish," a photo opportunity for publicity. But was there something more nefarious.
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Ken Miles, who was going for the endurance racing triple crown of Daytona, Sebring and Le Mans, was disheartened when he learned he lost the race due to a publicity stunt, saying, "I'm disappointed, of course, but what are you going to do about it." ford|le mans Required fields are marked *
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The bungled photo finish resulted in Ken Miles being denied the coveted chance of winning Sebring, Daytona, and Le Mans all in the same year. Unlike in the movie, Carroll Shelby admitted to being involved in ordering the three Ford cars to cross together, a decision he regretted for the rest of his life because of what it cost Ken Miles..
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Ken Miles (Christian Bale), the other half of Ford v Ferrari's motorsport bromance, was an English race car driver who became the winning man for an American automobile giant.Born in 1918 in.