“A pure racer”, car designer and ex-Le Mans winner Carroll Shelby calls Ken Miles, expat British racing driver and quirky non-conformist. For a film set in California and France, Le Mans ’66 is very British. Its hero hails from Birmingham, he drinks gallons of tea, and his gentlemanly behaviour risks snatching defeat from the jaws… Le Mans ’66 Read More
Rapid Response 3.5 stars
“When I was growing up I would get a favourite race driver and he might be killed two weeks later. So I’d get another favourite race driver. He’d get killed two or three weeks later.” In a film stuffed with “what?!” moments, medic and lifelong motor racing fan Dr Stephen Olvey’s comment really brings home… Rapid Response Read More