Kenneth Henry Jarvis Miles (1 November 1918 – 17 August 1966) was an English sports car racing engineer and driver best known for his motorsport career in the U.S. and with American teams on the international scene.

2020年11月2日 · In August of 1966, Carroll decided to work on the J-car again, and Ken became the primary testing driver. While driving it at 200 miles per hour the Riverside International Raceway in California, Ken flipped the car over. It caught on fire, and Ken was immediately ejected and killed.

2024年8月23日 · As the film sadly depicts, just a few months after Ford defeated Ferrari in the 1966 Le Mans, Ken Miles was killed while testing out a new Ford vehicle (the J-car) at California's Riverside International Raceway. Miles' Ford test car suddenly flipped, crashed, and caught fire.

2022年4月13日 · The fame for Ken Miles after Ford’s victory over Ferrari at Le Mans 1966 was tragically short-lived. Two months later on August 17, 1966, he was killed test driving a Ford J-car at a California raceway. The car broke into pieces and burst into flames upon impact. Miles was 47. Still, even in death, Ken Miles was an unsung racing hero.

Ken Miles was a British racing engineer and driver who is known for his racing career in the US with the American motorsport teams. In 2001, he was inducted into the “Motorsports Hall of Fame of America.”

Ken Miles survived World War II at the controls of a British Army tank only to perish behind the wheel of a prototype race car, but not before winning the 24 Hours of Daytona, the 12 Hours of Sebring and many other sports car races in a variety of machines.

2023年6月21日 · Gordon Cruickshank profiles the remarkable Ken Miles, who laid the groundwork for Le Mans glory – only to see it snatched away. He was known as Teddy Teabag, says Charlie Agapiou. “He’d use one teabag per race and by the end he was just drinking hot water!”

2019年11月14日 · Ken was killed at Riverside Raceway on Aug. 17 while testing one of the Ford J-car prototypes. The testing program that was being carried out was to determine whether the J-car was...

Until Ford v Ferrari, Ken Miles was the unsung mastermind of Ford's 1966 Le Mans victory. Here's the full story of the World War II veteran turned legendary race driver and car developer who lost his life too soon.

2021年7月19日 · Like many people now know, Ken Miles was a genius when it came to setting up race cars. However, people who have raced against Miles were the only ones who have seen how much of a gentleman driver he was, earning the nickname "Stirling Moss of the West Coast".