Ferrari: Race to Immortality (2017)

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Documentary

6.7 / 10

The 1950's - the iconic Scuderia Ferrari battle to stay on top in one of the deadliest decades in motor racing history. Cars and drivers were pushed to their limits, and the competition for the world championship meant racing on a knife edge where one mistake could take a life. At the centre of it all was Enzo Ferrari, a towering figure in motor racing who was driven to win at any cost. Amidst the stiff competition within his Ferrari team, two of its British stars, Peter Collins and Mike Hawthorn, put friendship first and the championship second. Ferrari: Race to Immortality tells the story of the loves and losses, triumphs and tragedy of Ferrari's most celebrated drivers in an era where they lived la dolce vita during the week and it was win or die on any given Sunday.

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Frederick Miles

It is partly true that the Le Mans 55 race continued because the authorities though it too dangerous to clear the crowd in the eclousures and stands after the crash but at least at much the fact was the French crowd was obsessed with Hawthorns awesome drive against the might of Mercedes who the French remembered as the occupiers, the 'Hun" and the the SS who many of their wives, girlfriends and daughters had spent the war in bed with. The fact is the crowd were desperate to see Merceded defeated and the Mercedes team and Moss and Fangio were desperate to go out and smash Hawthorn and revenge the fact that Hawthorn had competley outdriven Fangio in the first three hours ( the film of the race say at the limit Fangio can bearly hold the 3 litre Mercedes on the road and the D- Type with Hawthorn at the wheel is lapping at 122mph average compared with Moss best of 106mph in 1954. Virtually every head of state in Europe was on the phone to Bonn, Adneauer and mercedes in Stuggart pleeding with them for hours to withdraw. Had they not anything could have happened- conditions that night were terrible Le Mans was a major French industrial centre and rail depot and there was virtually acid rain though the night but in both the Jaguar and Mercedes camp the scene was as frenzied as during WW2 in the RN and Kreigsmarine HQ in 1944 after the Prinz Eugen smashed the Hood , in both camps it was total hysteria and a desire to get it on and resume the fight let alone in the crowd even among spectators who had seem their fellow viewers torn apart. - @Thursday, December 28, 2017 5:25 AM

Frederick Miles

A few points of difference. Peter Collins was not really a great driver in the league of Moss, Hawthorn or Fangio. Collins nearly took the championship in 1956 because Ferrari had very little competition that year the only other serious team was Maserati and Moss and Behra were hampered by great unreliability. At Ferrari Fangio was the only other serious driver. The other Ferrari drivers were rich playboys or essentially amatuers. A lot of the circuits and races in those days were just about straight out speed and hardly had any real corners there was less braking and gear changing involved at Monza, Rheims, Spa, Imola, Enna etc than on most US oval tracks at Indianapolis before the 1980s you had four distinct slightly baked corners which all different and required a quite deal of skill and precise judgement of the braking point at Rheims and Spa you had one awesome corner, another that was tricky and probably a couple of other minor dabs on the brakes and if you had a slow car you really didnt brake at all other than for say a slow hairpin or chicane. Collins win at Rheims and Spa at 56 were not really that much he got the flag over the other Italians because friends in the pits gave him the right signals at Rouen in 57 and the supposedly great wing at Silvestone in 58 its totally over the top 13/10th stuff which survived the drive only with luck. - @Thursday, December 28, 2017 5:16 AM

minatormyth

Looking forward to watching this :) - @Sunday, November 26, 2017 3:35 PM

Rob Graham

I've never even heard of this! When is it coming to Canada? - @Saturday, November 4, 2017 11:51 PM

Nico Papadopoulos

Forza Ferrari! - @Monday, October 30, 2017 11:01 PM

Em D

I really wished Christian Bale could play Enzo... - @Thursday, September 28, 2017 2:09 PM