• Ford V Ferrari dramatizes Ford’s run at Le Mans after a failed attempt to buy Ferrari.
  • The film stars Matt Damon as Carroll Shelby and Christian Bale as Ken Miles.
  • The movie isn’t a comprehensive look at the Ford GT40 program but gives some—albeit dramatized—context around the GT40 program.

Ford’s trip to France to take on Ferrari after an attempted acquisition of the Italian automaker has become automotive legend. Naturally, it only makes sense to turn one of the most interesting stories in motorsport into a major motion picture. Like we saw with Rush, Ford V Ferrari does take some liberties with its storytelling to help condense nearly a decade of details into a couple of hours but is faithful to the story’s broad strokes. The movie also shows the evolution of Carroll Shelby (Matt Damon) and his operations under the Shelby brand.

Ford V. Ferrari doesn’t cover all of Ford’s run at the 24 Hours of Le Mans, though it does peel the curtain back at some internal politics that take place in motorsports. And it glazes over the 1964 running and cuts the GT40’s Le Mans domination after Miles’s fatal crash during testing. What it lacks in factual accuracy, it makes up for in emotion. Turning these legendary characters into silver screen icons is a fitting celebration of their collective legacies.

If you missed Ford V Ferrari in theaters when it dropped, or its run on HBO, you can watch it on Hulu right now.

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Wesley Wren
Wesley Wren has spent his entire life around cars, whether it’s dressing up as his father’s 1954 Ford for Halloween as a child, repairing cars in college or collecting frustrating pieces of history—and most things in between. Wesley is the current steward of a 1954 Ford Crestline Victoria, a 1975 Harley-Davidson FXE and a 1959 Ford Fairlane 500 Galaxie. Oh yeah, and a 2005 Kia Sedona.