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- When people think about
popular racing movies,

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they gravitate towards either Rush,

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the F1 movie set in the late 1970s,

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or they gravitate to Ford Versus Ferrari,

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which covers the 24 Hours of
Le Mans during the late '60s.

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The one picture that does get overlooked

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is the 1966 classic Grand Prix,

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directed by John Frankenheimer.

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Grand Prix documents a fictional version

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of the 1966 Formula 1 season.

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While the movie itself is fictional,

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it uses real world locations,
unlike other movies,

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and it uses some of the stars
of the era in bit cameo roles

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while having big European
and Hollywood stars

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in the leading roles.

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One of the things that I
like about the movie the most

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is that it's set during the late 1960s

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and produced in the late 1960s.

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It isn't trying to recreate a past era.

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It is the era of Formula 1
that they're living through.

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Many of the film scenes were shot

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during actual Grand Prix weekends.

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All the crowds were filled with real fans.

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The garages are filled
with real mechanics,

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and it was shot in beautiful
70 millimeter film,

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meaning that that era of Grand Prix racing

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from the 1960s is beautifully preserved.

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One thing to make note
of as you're watching

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this beautiful footage of the
cars going around the track

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is that the cars on camera
aren't actually Formula 1 cars.

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They're Formula 3 cars mocked
up with body work and exhaust

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to look like the Grand
Prix cars of the day

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because the running costs
and the accident damage costs

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would be too high for film production

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if they were actually
crashing a Formula 1 car

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into Monaco Harbor.

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The film might be a bit melodramatic

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as a lot of the big budget
pictures were back then,

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but enjoy all the great footage

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of these cars and tracks of yester year.