Le Mans '66 (2019)

Evan Arnold: SCCA Official

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Quotes 

• [Miles continues to argue with the SCCA Official over the trunk space of his Cobra] 

  Ken Miles : How is that even possible? Is he putting boxes in their trunk? Is he, mate? Hey! Jim! Is he putting his bloody carryall in your trunk?

  SCCA Official : Discretionary infraction.

  [Miles pulls out the handbook] 

  Ken Miles : Nothing in there about my trunk and your lovely little portmanteau.

  SCCA Official : You're holding the '62 edition of the SCCA.

  [Miles puts down the book and removes the sticker off his hood and places it on the SCCA Official's jacket] 

  Ken Miles : And you can stick this bloody sticker where the sun don't shine!

  Carroll Shelby : Hey. Hey, Bill. What seems to be the problem, Bill?

  Ken Miles : The problem is that Bill here is an arsehole.

  Carroll Shelby : No, he doesn't mean that.

  Ken Miles : Oh, yes, he does. Yes, he does. No, he really does think that Bill is an arsehole.

  SCCA Official : I'm just doing my job here.

  Carroll Shelby : Hang on. Bill, Bill, Bill. In my experience, there is... listen to me. Something like this, there's always a middle ground. All right? Now, Ken's outta line.

  SCCA Official : And I'm just doing my job.

  Carroll Shelby : I understand you are. You know how he gets on a race day. You know that. All right? But you're not gonna DQ us over a trunk.

  [Miles grabs a hammer, opens his trunk and starts beating the inside of the trunk lid until it fits the fuel cell] 

  Ken Miles : Happy, Bill?

  Carroll Shelby : Bill, I'll handle it. I'll talk to him. I'll talk to him. You just go and have a great day.

• [Miles works on his Shelby Cobra while an SCCA Official loads a fuel cell in the trunk and is unable to shut the trunk lid] 

  Ken Miles : You all right?

  SCCA Official : Paragraph 15.4, section 2b of the SCCA standard dictates all AF cars must have minimum trunk space of 20 inches by 12 inches by six inches. Your trunk doesn't close. Ergo car fails standard.

  Ken Miles : Wait, wait, wait. What?

  SCCA Official : Ergo car is disqualified from said Class A competition.

  Ken Miles : Hold on a second. No, no, no. Look, look, look. Can I ask you a question, all right? When you were a little boy, did you think, 'When I grow up, I want to go to the fabled Willow Springs Raceway, and I want to enforce paragraph 15.4, section 2b of the SCCA regulations on luggage capacity'? Did you?

  SCCA Official : All right, that's it. I'm ruling you and your team disqualified from this race.

  [SCCA official places a sticker on the hood]