[sugarwood]

They did a great job of making 24-hr endurance racing, something that could otherwise seem really tedious, appear exciting and dramatic. The nighttime racing in the rain scenes were very well done and really amped up the sense of tension and suspense. It's also hard to imagine this era of racing where there was no communication between the drivers and their teams in the pit, because they didn't have radios then.

I can't imagine why "car guys" wouldn't love it. The movie is a glorification of car guys and their struggle against automotive mediocrity and corporate group-think. The joke is that "Ferrari" is a completely minor character of little consequence to the storyline. The accurate title would be "Carroll Shelby and Ken Miles v. the Corporate Idiot *******s At Ford." I can't imagine the Ford company is very happy about this film.

As a side note, there were a few scenes where the Ferrari team members were yelling at each other in Italian which was not subtitled on the screen. My wife is fluent in Italian and understood all of it. She said they were essentially cursing at each other and dropping F-bombs in Italian.