The alterations made to the cause of Ken Miles' fatal crash in the movie improve the narrative and emphasize the high price race car drivers pay ... the moment Ken Miles died, was that their ...

Christian Bale stars as Ken Miles in Ford v Ferrari ... including the shocking death of Ken. He died in a fiery car accident on August 17, 1966, at the Riverside Raceway. Ken’s young son ...

When he was just 15 years old, Miles met a young woman named Mollie, then turned to a friend and said, “I’m going to marry that girl.” And he eventually did ... Ken Miles died when the Ford ...

“I’d rather die in a racing car than get eaten up by cancer," Ken Miles is quoted as saying in Go Like Hell: Ford ... I sort of knew Ken’s story, but did not know much about his death. In the movie, ...

He died, by all accounts, when his Ford J-car prototype ... bothered me, as did the fact that he wore his watch on the wrong hand, according to the pictures of the real Ken Miles.

Ford, as a company, did not care. Even Carroll Shelby ... GT40 MkIV based on the entirely American-built J-Car Ken Miles was testing when he died. By 1968, regulation changes marked the end ...