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The Ford vs Ferrari lies
Ford really did try to buy Ferrari in the early 1960s, and Enzo Ferrari did walk away at the last minute because he refused to give up control of his racing program.

The film turns this into a very personal insult scene where Ferrari supposedly mocks Ford and his cars; historians note there is no evidence Ferrari actually delivered the famous taunts the way the movie shows.

Ford’s motive wasn’t only wounded pride; the company also wanted to boost sales and its image with a glamorous racing program, which the film downplays.
Ken Miles’ personality and role

Ken Miles was indeed a brilliant, sometimes difficult driver and engineer who was central to developing the GT40 into a winner, which the movie gets broadly right.

The film exaggerates how much he was “the lone genius outsider.” In reality, he was part of a much larger technical and racing effort at Ford and worked with many other engineers and drivers over several seasons.

Some of the more explosive confrontations (shouting matches, walk‑outs, the “fight” scene with Carroll Shelby) are invented or heavily dramatized to make him look more persecuted and misunderstood than sources support.
Corporate villains and politics

The movie turns Ford’s racing director Leo Beebe and other executives into almost cartoonish villains who constantly try to sabotage Miles, including keeping him out of races purely for image reasons.

In reality, there was plenty of corporate politics, marketing concerns, and clashes of priorities, but the paper trail suggests a more complex mix of safety worries, team politics, and sponsor/image pressures rather than a single vendetta.

Henry Ford II is shown as volatile and easily manipulated by flattery or insults; accounts depict him as tough and proud but not quite the shouting caricature seen on screen.

Ford really did enter a large number of GT40s (far more than Ferrari’s factory entries), and Ferrari’s official cars really did drop out, clearing the way for Ford to dominate.

There really was an order to slow the cars and stage a “photo‑finish” with multiple GT40s crossing the line together for maximum PR impact.

Ken Miles actually had built a substantial lead, and because of the staged finish plus a technicality (a shorter starting distance for the other car), he was classified second instead of first, losing the chance at winning Daytona, Sebring, and Le Mans in one year.

What’s fictionalized is the level of last‑minute drama and how clearly everyone understood the consequences; the film simplifies complex regulations and radio/pit‑wall decisions into a single, neat act of betrayal.
Racing action and track details

Lap times, on‑track duels, and some wheel‑to‑wheel moments are compressed or invented to keep the race visually exciting and easy to follow; a 24‑hour race is far more drawn out and strategic than the movie can show.

Some tracks, corners, and pit‑lane setups are recreated with artistic license rather than perfect historical accuracy; the goal was cinematic clarity over exact replication.

A few rival drivers and teams are merged or simplified into single characters or cars, so the real field was more varied than the film suggests.
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The film’s basic outline of the accident and its timing is accurate, but it compresses the aftermath and emotional fallout, focusing on Carroll Shelby’s grief rather than the wider technical investigations within Ford.

The suggestion that corporate decisions around Le Mans directly “led” to his accident is more thematic than factual; the J‑car program and its aerodynamic issues were their own complex story.
What the movie gets mostly right

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