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    West Coast Stock Car Hall of Fame in 2020. (key) Ken Miles was married to Mollie and had a son, Peter Miles (born September 28, 1950). He was also a close...
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    February 2010. "Crash kills ace driver Ken Miles". St. Petersburg Times. (Florida). UPI. 18 August 1966. p. 1C. "Miles dies in crash". Daytona Beach Morning...
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  • Christian Bale as Ken Miles, English race car driver Jon Bernthal as Lee Iacocca, vice president of Ford Caitríona Balfe as Mollie Miles, Miles' wife Tracy...
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    Ford Motor Company, he also developed the Ford GT40 with racing legend Ken Miles, the car that won the 24 Hours of Le Mans in 1966, 1967, 1968, and 1969...
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    rev-limit setting for the 24h race. The new year started with promise with Ken Miles and Lloyd Ruby winning both the inaugural 24 Hours of Daytona and then...
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    His performances as politician Dick Cheney in Vice and race car driver Ken Miles in the sports drama Ford v Ferrari (2019) earned him a second win and...
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    races. In two races, they finished 1–2–3. In 1965, McLaren and co-driver Ken Miles raced a Ford GT40 in the 24 Hour Race at Le Mans. The car was leading...
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  • Edward Sumpter (Series 2—5) Tristan Gemmill as D.I. Ken Miles (Series 1) Thomas Lockyer as D.I. Ken Miles (Series 2) David O'Hara as D.C.C. Stephen Blackton...
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  • to do so in 2010. No driver has won all three events in the same year. Ken Miles lost the chance to win all three events in the same year when a problem...
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    24-hour length as Le Mans. The first 24 Hour event in 1966 was won by Ken Miles and Lloyd Ruby driving a Ford Mk. II. Motor Sport reported: "For their...
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    alignment of where he felt that they should be. He then placed driver Ken Miles in the car, and using scrap wood and gaffer tape, designed the windscreen...
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    management the GT40 driven by Lloyd Ruby and Ken Miles won the first race of the 1965 season at Daytona, and Miles and Bruce McLaren finished first in the...
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    Parnelli Jones, Elliott Forbes-Robinson, Pedro Rodriguez, Dave MacDonald, Ken Miles, Jim Hall and Jerry Titus. The fastest official race lap records at Pacific...
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    for his roles on stage and screen, he has gained attention for playing Miles Straume in the ABC drama series Lost (2008–2010) and Eric Tao in HBO drama...
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    top drivers of the day, including Carroll Shelby, Masten Gregory and Ken Miles. Another driver entered was an inexperienced local youngster named Dan...
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  • Ken Takakura (Japanese: 高倉 健, Hepburn: Takakura Ken), born Goichi Oda (小田 剛一, Oda Gōichi, February 16, 1931 – November 10, 2014), was a Japanese actor...
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  • Miles Straume is a fictional character played by Ken Leung on the ABC television series Lost. Miles is introduced early in the fourth season as a hotheaded...
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    winning the crown with second-place finishes in the third event, such as Ken Miles (1966 24 Hours of Le Mans), Mario Andretti (Le Mans 1995) and Allan McNish...
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    with Ken Miles in the lead. In the lead half-hour of the race, the Fords bunched up together in a pre-arranged plan for Bruce McLaren and Miles to cross...
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    near the end. Gurney pushed his car over the finish line, beaten only by Ken Miles and Lloyd Ruby. However, his actions were ultimately determined to be...
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    1966, it achieved numerous victories. American-British race car driver Ken Miles took the 2.0-liter class in the Las Vegas Stardust and Laguna Seca USRRC...
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    commissioned racing driver and fabricator Ken Miles to build another prototype as quickly as he could. Miles was provided with a budget of $800, a Series...
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    Ken Curtis (born Curtis Wain Gates; July 2, 1916 – April 28, 1991) was an American actor and singer best known for his role as Festus Haggen on the western...
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  • facility. He approached Ken Miles and Dick Van Laanen to design the road course. They designed a paved road course nearly 2 miles (3.2 km) in length. The...
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    "The Wroeken".[citation needed] Christian Bale (playing racing driver Ken Miles, from Sutton Coldfield) uses the phrase “It’s just a quick ride round...
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  • Miles is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Miles Brothers, American early cinema pioneers A. D. Miles, actor who is best known as Marty...
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    1975–1982] John Leese, journalist, editor of the Evening Standard 1986–1991 Ken Miles, Racing Car Driver, 2nd Place Le Mans 1966 John Mogg, Baron Mogg John...
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    of a car was very fast, but even top drivers like Carroll Shelby and Ken Miles had found it difficult to handle. He finished second in the inaugural...
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  • Jazz is a 2001 television documentary miniseries directed by Ken Burns. It was broadcast on PBS in 2001 and was nominated for an Emmy Award for Outstanding...
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    Speedway oval, but space constraints resulted in its final configuration. Ken Miles was among several people involved in planning the layout. The first event...
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