Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby

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• The car driven by Reese Bobby is an homage to Curtis Turner's 1967 Daytona 500 car designed by Smokey Yunick. This car was a 7/8 scale model of a regular Chevelle that enable Turner to have an advantage on the field. The car was banned by NASCAR thus starting Smokey's tenuous relationship with NASCAR.
• Movie Goof (errors made by characters, possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): Marrying Cal Naughton Jr. would not make Carly's name Carly Naughton Jr. (as she claims in some alternate versions), but simply Carly Naughton as the Jr. is a personal appellation of him.
• Movie Goof (factual errors): NASCAR did not implement the double file restarts for lead lap cars until midway through the 2009 season. Since Ricky Bobby and Jean Girard were both still on the lead lap, Ricky Bobby would have had to line up behind Girard since he was in second place when the caution flag came out. Ricky would have been black flagged for lining up that way, meaning he could not have won the race, even if he had crossed the line before Girard.
• The pace car used in the final race after the crash is a blue Ford Mustang GT with white, over-the-top Indy racing stripes.