Ford v Ferrari is a racing movie mostly focused on two people: Carroll Shelby (Matt Damon), former Le Mans winner, retired race car driver and now a race car designer; and Ken Miles (Christian Bale), hot tempered mechanic and professional race car driver. After Enzo Ferrari insultingly refuses to sell his company to Ford, CEO Henry Ford II (Tracy Letts) gives Shelby a blank check to design a car that will win Le Mans.

There's a lot of stuff about designing the car and testing it. The main challenge is getting Miles to race Le Mans. He's the best driver but not a good spokesman for Ford so Senior Exec VP Leo Beebe (Josh Lucas) keeps trying to get Miles replaced while Shelby tries to keep him on the team.

In the first year Miles doesn't make the team and all four Ford cars fail exactly like Miles predicted. Then Shelby bets that Miles will win the 24 hours of Daytona and if so Miles gets to race Le Mans, if not Ford takes ownership of Shelby's company. Miles does make it to the Le Mans team and the climax of the movie is the race which is quite well done...

This is an entertaining movie that makes both racing and car design rather exciting.