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THE STUNTS OF
Specially built camera rigs were needed
to keep pace with the film’s Ford GT40
Mk. II and Ferrari 330 P3 replicas; in
some scenes, speeds crested 180 mph.
“ ou can do the same stunt five times portraying the personal and mechanical Bale), he’d need cars and drivers that
and have different results. When
battles team Shelby American fought as it
could perform on the edge.
Those vehicles included classic
worked to secure victory against seem-
physics take over … who knows what
Corvettes, Shelby Cobras, rebodied 911s,
could happen?” That’s according
ingly indomitable Ferrari at the 24 Hours
Yto Robert Nagle, who, in his role
At the behest of director James
and Ferrari 330 P3s running LS3 V-8
of stunt coordinator for Ford v Ferrari, of Le Mans with its Ford GT40. and tube-frame replicas of Ford GT40s
orchestrated cars going wheel to wheel Mangold, Nagle enlisted a team that could engines. Compared to the modern cars
in racetrack combat—and occasionally execute stunts and maneuvers to convinc- Nagle worked with on productions such
flying through the air. ingly re-create the perils of the race. To as Baby Driver or the Fast & Furious
The film transports audiences back tell the story of Carroll Shelby (portrayed franchise, the ones used for Ford v Ferrari
to the French countryside of 1966, by Matt Damon) and Ken Miles (Christian were intentionally stripped down and
