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  1. Mar 20, 2024 · In Ford v Ferrari, rather than ejecting Ken Miles after an unexplained fault, his Ford test car crashes after experiencing brake failure. He is killed in the ensuing fire, resulting in the Ken Miles death scene. Miles was the second test driver to be killed while testing a J-car in the span of five months, with the previous driver, Walt Hansgen ...

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  2. Jun 6, 2023 · Ken Miles, left, talks with ... Scarfiotti would crash his P3 and Surtees would leave Ferrari’s F1 team in favor of Cooper. ... and as seen in photos, Miles intentionally braked at the finish to ...

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    Ken Miles stepping into Dolphin Mk.2, March 1961. Kenneth Henry Jarvis Miles (1 November 1918 – 17 August 1966) was an English sports car racing engineer and driver best known for his motorsport career in the U.S. and with American teams on the international scene. He is an inductee to the Motorsports Hall of Fame of America.

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  5. Oct 20, 2009 · Ken Miles lost his life moments after this photo was taken.He clipped a curb at the end of Riverside Raceways straight going into turn nine and they suspect a chassis failure caused him to lose control and crash. The new "J" Car had a bonded aluminum honeycomb structure and they think a 90 degree angle joint failed.

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  6. Oct 26, 2021 · On 19 June 1966, Automobile Club de l’Ouest president Jean-Marie Lelièvre was particularly moved when presenting the winners of the world’s greatest endurance race with the trophy. For the 1966 edition had been anything but run-of-the-mill. Not only had Ford broken speed records to end Ferrari’s winning streak, but the eventful race and ...

  7. Jun 21, 2023 · A snapshot of Ken Miles – British to the end though US-based, maximising his resources, completely unfazed by anyone else’s view of him. Ken Miles – unseen buttress to the Carroll Shelby operation, and most famous for not winning Le Mans. That muddled triumph of 1966, when three Ford MkIIs bellowed across the line at La Sarthe to claim ...

  8. Aug 17, 2021 · We remember racing legend Ken Miles, who died 55 years ago today in a crash while testing Ford's J-Car. It was the darkest hour in Ford's 1960s Le Mans campaign. Lessons from the crash led directly to the Ford Mark IV, which went on to win Le Mans in 1967.

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