Why not the daughters, too?
Because they generally won't go. I got turned down by my wife and both daughters. Fortunately my sister, who has some interest in motorsport, wanted to go so I didn't have to go by myself.
I really liked it, thought it was the best movie of all the racing movies I've seen. "Le Mans" is still my favorite but it's mostly just about a race. Like most racing movies, this one took a few liberties with what happens on the racetrack, but nothing too severe (i. e. "Days of Thunder').
When I got home, I pulled out my copy of
The Unfair Advantage, which was written by Mark Donohue and Paul van Valkenburgh, to see what Mark Donohue had to say about the Ford race cars. He had a turn at both Holman-Moody and Shelby American during his tenure racing the Fords. He did say that Ken Miles did a good job of setting the cars up and there wasn't much the drivers had to do on race weekend.
I was a little disappointed they didn't cast someone to play that other guy named Carroll, Carroll Smith, who was one of motorsports's car preparation gurus, but then there's a reason I'm a software developer and not a script writer.
Speaking of
The Unfair Advantage, it's one of the best motorsports books ever written. Rather than talking about his life, Mark devoted a chapter to each of the racing programs he was involved in, what they had to do to get each of them raceworthy, and the racing history of that program. It's worth putting on your Christmas list if you are interested in this sort of thing.
