Did you know THIS was left out of Ford v Ferrari?

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[rafaelsaez]

A classic story in racing. A car becomes too dominant, so the rules are altered to crush it. Look at what happened to the Dodge Daytona/Plymouth Superbird. The same story.

[nathansmith]

They haven't won not until recently they had a GT40 with a V6

[Ratkill]

Another thing was, it was Miles that drove Henry Ford II in the GT40 not Shelby.

[sandysmith]

Nascar did the same thing to Mopar when they came out with the unbeatable Superbirds and Daytonas.

[johnneedy]

So as always stack the deck, Nascar did the same crap, Ford and Dodge would of beat out GM

[reidboggs]

It didn’t just screw the Americans though. Jaguar was working on a V12 car that never got to race (XJ13) and didn’t win another LeMans until the 80’s.

[chicocc]

And by the way, I forgot that in 1968 the rules changed also for Ferrari, basically ending the 330 P4 because of that

[MegaMr]

It also forgot to mention that Caroll Shelby had passed away in 2012

[ohalistair]

This is hugely incorrect. The real reason they stopped winning is because they stopped entering. 1969 was the last year they entered the GT40, and they won it.
The GT40 won even after the rule changes that limited the engine sizes, and were implemented by the FIA after the 1967 race. The '68 and' 69 wins were done with 4.9L engines, instead of the original 7.0L engines.

The rule changes also had nothing to do with Ford winning. It was because of the speeds which Ford was achieving, as the FIA were worried that such speeds would cause a repeat of the 1955 Le Mans disaster where 82 people died, and another 121 were injured.

[michaelvarble]

The food 427 was a beast and one of the most powerful engines ever produced

[leejam]

LeMans has always changed rules. After Jaguar won in 1951, 53, 55, 56 & 57 they changed the rules in the early 60's as jaguar had developed the V12 XJ13 which would have blown Ferrari out of the water. But engine sizes were limited to prevent this

[mainruss]

USA did the same thing when audi started owning in trans am with a 2.8l turbo v8 and Quatro. They won podiums in almost every race they finished then iirc were banned through rule changes after either their debut season or the next. Usually with 1, 2 finishes as long as the drivers (who didn't much like each other) both finished.

[ES]

This is common in sports car racing, it's not because they were American... Look at the 917 and subsequent Porsches. Or changing the rules because of the 962, or CANAM or changing the rules so Audi couldn't win again.

[BigBossIvan]

Seems a constant for scummy people. Don’t like the result? Move those goalposts…

[wintonhudelson]

They did the same thing to Jim Hall in Group 7 racing. They just killed the Chaparral cars

[Boa]

BS
The rule about engine size was before GT40 defeat.
In 1968 and 1969 the GT40 was a 5 liters Sports Car while prototypes were only 3 liters. The Ferrari P4 wasn't allowed to race as a prototype because it was 4 liters and neither as a Sports Car because of cars produced.
So it's quite the opposite. GT40 stops winning when Ford stopped its developement.

[wendlandpark]

Same thing happened when the 787B won. They changed the engine regs preventing rotaries.

[michaelmartin]

I don't care about cars so much, but the fact they developed a technology that could out pace, out last, the statuesque, with the world laughing. That's a damn good story. A damn dood movie as well

[IronMan]

Couple of things to add here:
1) Ferrari was at the 24 hours of Daytona, setting the stage for the showdown at LeMans, and Ferrari lost there as well. I don't know why they left that out because it would have raised the stakes given the audience a glimmer of hope that they in fact had a chance after all since they were painting Ferrari as "unbeatable" AND Shelby American having to fight off the other GT40 Team, Holman-Moody which was present in the film
2) They mentioned the 12 hours of Sebring, but it wasn't in the movie for whatever reason, Ken Miles won that one as well. Anyone who's played Forza can tell you that final turn will make or break your lead and the race
3) With capping the displacement to 3.0L for the 1970 race, there was a clause that if you could build 25 road going versions of your car they'd raise it to 5.0L. Porsche was the only one that did this and for the 1971 race and absolutely demolished everyone and set the stage for Porsche to have the most wins of any automaker in LeMans history

[East]

Except by producing 25 cars the intake limit was upped to 5L, no? Whole reason the porshe 917 led