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Alutant Student Newspaper from Ellensburg High School. October 22nd 2019

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Alutant <strong>Oct</strong>ober <strong>22</strong>, <strong>2019</strong><br />

15<br />

Ford vs Ferrari<br />

Elian Calderon<br />

Freelance Reporter A<br />

News<br />

If you are a big fan of cars<br />

and racing, come and see the<br />

new upcoming movie called<br />

Ford vs Ferrari. It starts on<br />

November 15, <strong>2019</strong> at the<br />

Grand Meridian Theatre.<br />

The plot follows an eccentric,<br />

determined team<br />

of American engineers and<br />

designers, led by automotive<br />

visionary Carroll Shelby and<br />

played by Matt Damon and<br />

his British driver Ken Miles,<br />

played by Christian Bale, who<br />

are dispatched by Henry Ford<br />

II with the mission of building<br />

the Ford GT40, the new race<br />

car with the potential to finally<br />

defeat The Ferrari racing team<br />

at the 1966 24 Hours of Le<br />

Mans race in France.<br />

In the 1960s, Ferrari won<br />

five times at Le Mans and<br />

Ford had planned to buy out<br />

Ferrari. Car designer Enzo<br />

Ferrari had agreed to this deal.<br />

Ferrari was very happy<br />

with the deal, knowing he<br />

won’t be alone in sharing the<br />

power of the company.<br />

However, the contract stated<br />

that Ford would take complete<br />

control over the racing<br />

department, which Ferrari was<br />

against.<br />

He wanted to keep control<br />

of his own company, so Ferrari<br />

decided not to work for<br />

Ford anymore. Ford was mad<br />

at Enzo Ferrari, so he decided<br />

to beat Ferrari by building<br />

his own car called The Ford<br />

GT40. He talked with Carroll<br />

Shelby to help him build the<br />

car.<br />

Shelby joined his team but<br />

he didn’t want to race because<br />

he was too old for racing and<br />

chose to talk to Ken Miles<br />

instead. He asked Miles if he<br />

wanted to race. Miles said yes<br />

and joined Ford.<br />

Ford built two prototypes<br />

of GT40s. Miles test drove<br />

the first car and said it was<br />

not fast enough, as it was too<br />

unstable to race with, so Ford<br />

built the GT40 again and made<br />

it better and faster.<br />

https://www.foxmovies.com/movies/ford-v-ferrari

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