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This is the year
of Ford's great challenge and American invasion
on the supremacy of the Italian giants. The pre-race drama
had centered on the strongest ever
challenge from America. To beat Ferrari. In 1965, it was starting
to get really serious. Shelby had won a year earlier
in the GT class with the Daytona Coupe, but Ferrari had still won
overall with the prototype. Prototypes are the cars that compete
for victory overall at Le Mans, and that's all anyone really cares about
is who wins the race overall. Henry Ford II even made the trip
to Le Mans for the first time to watch his GT40s make history. The car worked fantastic.
I was third fastest qualifier
of Ford's great challenge and American invasion
on the supremacy of the Italian giants. The pre-race drama
had centered on the strongest ever
challenge from America. To beat Ferrari. In 1965, it was starting
to get really serious. Shelby had won a year earlier
in the GT class with the Daytona Coupe, but Ferrari had still won
overall with the prototype. Prototypes are the cars that compete
for victory overall at Le Mans, and that's all anyone really cares about
is who wins the race overall. Henry Ford II even made the trip
to Le Mans for the first time to watch his GT40s make history. The car worked fantastic.
I was third fastest qualifier
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This is the year
of Ford's great challenge
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and American invasion
on the supremacy of the Italian giants.
00:00:07.059 --> 00:00:08.841
The pre-race drama
had centered
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on the strongest ever
challenge from America.
00:00:11.636 --> 00:00:14.389
To beat Ferrari.
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In 1965, it was starting
to get really serious.
00:00:19.435 --> 00:00:22.073
Shelby had won a year earlier
in the GT class with the Daytona Coupe,
00:00:22.814 --> 00:00:25.483
but Ferrari had still won
overall with the prototype.
00:00:25.817 --> 00:00:29.195
Prototypes are the cars that compete
for victory overall at Le Mans,
00:00:29.278 --> 00:00:32.532
and that's all anyone really cares about
is who wins the race overall.
00:00:32.991 --> 00:00:36.577
Henry Ford II even made the trip
to Le Mans for the first time
00:00:36.661 --> 00:00:38.746
to watch his GT40s make history.
00:00:39.033 --> 00:00:43.167
The car worked fantastic.
I was third fastest qualifier.
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Movie Summary
The story of automotive icon Carroll Shelby who started as a chicken farmer and went on to become one of the winningest racing drivers in American motorsports, and the only man in history to win in Le Mans as a driver and a manufa...
