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The 24 Hour War (2016) Documentary 5/10
Whereby revisionist history comes to LeMans in a Trumptopian view of Fords battle to wrest the race from the evil hands of Enzo Ferrari. If you have an interest this is not a bad introduction to the story of how Ford tried to buy out Ferrari and when Henry got dissed by Enzo he decided to do it all on his own.
Motorsports enthusiasts will be disappointed in the portrayal of Henry as some kind of saint who was rebuffed by the Machiavellian Italian carmaker. In truth, from all accounts they were both tyrants and the deal had no chance of ever happening.
The film goes on to show how Ford built the GT40 and would have one believe little Dearborn elves hand carved the vehicle out of pure American iron mountains while supervised by Carrol Shelby.
Well that would make a great story sort of the automotive Lord o de Rings. Except. Ford hired Eric Broadley and Lola cars to build the damn thing for them and contributed the engines. The first GT40's were run by John Wyer and Shelby did not come into the picture on that program until some time later. It was not up until the J car and its subsequent evolution into the Mark IV that it was built and designed in the States and that was quite a few years later. There are a lot of details left out of this one in order to make it a resounding Ford success story and that really saddens me as there were a huge amount of folk who contributed to that program who never even get mentioned. The quick change brakes that made the car a viable proposition owe more than a little to the input of Mark Donohue and he is not even mentioned in passing.Bruce McLaren is and often and Donohue was his co driver, go figure. The ever present Henry III in this one leads me to believe that the filmakers got their budget covered by FoMoCo and it might, just might have tarnished their research efforts
If you want a Cliffs Notes overview of the era and are none to keen on factual accuracy this might be for you.
Whereby revisionist history comes to LeMans in a Trumptopian view of Fords battle to wrest the race from the evil hands of Enzo Ferrari. If you have an interest this is not a bad introduction to the story of how Ford tried to buy out Ferrari and when Henry got dissed by Enzo he decided to do it all on his own.
Motorsports enthusiasts will be disappointed in the portrayal of Henry as some kind of saint who was rebuffed by the Machiavellian Italian carmaker. In truth, from all accounts they were both tyrants and the deal had no chance of ever happening.
The film goes on to show how Ford built the GT40 and would have one believe little Dearborn elves hand carved the vehicle out of pure American iron mountains while supervised by Carrol Shelby.
Well that would make a great story sort of the automotive Lord o de Rings. Except. Ford hired Eric Broadley and Lola cars to build the damn thing for them and contributed the engines. The first GT40's were run by John Wyer and Shelby did not come into the picture on that program until some time later. It was not up until the J car and its subsequent evolution into the Mark IV that it was built and designed in the States and that was quite a few years later. There are a lot of details left out of this one in order to make it a resounding Ford success story and that really saddens me as there were a huge amount of folk who contributed to that program who never even get mentioned. The quick change brakes that made the car a viable proposition owe more than a little to the input of Mark Donohue and he is not even mentioned in passing.Bruce McLaren is and often and Donohue was his co driver, go figure. The ever present Henry III in this one leads me to believe that the filmakers got their budget covered by FoMoCo and it might, just might have tarnished their research efforts
If you want a Cliffs Notes overview of the era and are none to keen on factual accuracy this might be for you.