Ford vs Ferrari: The Fiercest Rivalry in Auto Racing. The Real Story
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From the author of several bestsellers, a famous journalist. Based on this book, the Hollywood blockbuster of the same name was removed.
The exciting story of the confrontation of two auto giants.
A detailed story about outstanding personalities: riders, engineers and leaders of companies.
By the beginning of the 1960s, Ford began to take positions to competitors a little. The new generation chose speed and style, and not the safety and comfort with which Fords were associated. While the grandson of the founder of the Automobile Empire Henry Ford II thought how to surprise the world, on the other side of the Atlantic, the Italian designer and motorist Enzo Ferrari created completely different cars. Ferrari pains personified elegance and won European races one after another, but the most racers were gone at the wheel of Enzo"s creations on sports routes.
The book of American journalist Hey Baym Ford against Ferrari, dedicated to the struggle of two titans, formed the basis of the Hollywood blockbuster of the same name. It describes in detail the tough confrontation between the automotive industry of America and Europe: piece masterpieces against the conveyor, grace against the power, brilliant engineers of the Italian concern against a brilliant couple - the Ford engineer of Shelbi and Ken Miles.
Quotes
Henry II intended to do something that no one had succeeded before. His family, inextricably linked with Ford cars, stood at the stake. From the moment when in 1932 his grandfather released the V8 engine with flat heads - the last great invention of the older Henry - the Ford Empire did not amaze the world with engineering innovations. Now the grandson wanted to radically change this situation. Provided, of course, that he can win.
The racers themselves talked about the sensuality of high speeds, compared one circle along the highway with the experience of a whole life, talked about the call of their own psyche: to master the machine means to know yourself. The story that many considered truthful was popular: the driver was pulled out of a broken car with fractures of both legs, ankles, nose, ribs and three vertebrae, but when the doctors examined it, the pulse and blood pressure were normal. Is there, in principle, for a person who is so deeply immersed in himself, the path back? Poprazing the writer Ken Pardy, the rejection of racing in itself would be in a sense of suicide.
- Only those who do not move do not die at all, - said the French car rider Jean Bera after the death of Fee Portago. “But perhaps they are already dead?”
Enzo Ferrari company suffered disaster. He spent all his income on the races and was now acutely in need of money. He was doused with mud from all sides. The newspapers, which he continued to read daily, wrote about him now not as a “wizard from Maranello”, but as a “Maranello monster”. The wife of one of the riders openly called him a killer. But isn"t the next world champion appeared on Ferrari? Didn"t Ferrari raise the glory of the Italian auto industry to the level of the stratosphere? The native country turned away from him. His own people betrayed and left their commentator. The press only added oil into the fire, calling this situation a palace coup
The exciting story of the confrontation of two auto giants.
A detailed story about outstanding personalities: riders, engineers and leaders of companies.
By the beginning of the 1960s, Ford began to take positions to competitors a little. The new generation chose speed and style, and not the safety and comfort with which Fords were associated. While the grandson of the founder of the Automobile Empire Henry Ford II thought how to surprise the world, on the other side of the Atlantic, the Italian designer and motorist Enzo Ferrari created completely different cars. Ferrari pains personified elegance and won European races one after another, but the most racers were gone at the wheel of Enzo"s creations on sports routes.
The book of American journalist Hey Baym Ford against Ferrari, dedicated to the struggle of two titans, formed the basis of the Hollywood blockbuster of the same name. It describes in detail the tough confrontation between the automotive industry of America and Europe: piece masterpieces against the conveyor, grace against the power, brilliant engineers of the Italian concern against a brilliant couple - the Ford engineer of Shelbi and Ken Miles.
Quotes
Henry II intended to do something that no one had succeeded before. His family, inextricably linked with Ford cars, stood at the stake. From the moment when in 1932 his grandfather released the V8 engine with flat heads - the last great invention of the older Henry - the Ford Empire did not amaze the world with engineering innovations. Now the grandson wanted to radically change this situation. Provided, of course, that he can win.
The racers themselves talked about the sensuality of high speeds, compared one circle along the highway with the experience of a whole life, talked about the call of their own psyche: to master the machine means to know yourself. The story that many considered truthful was popular: the driver was pulled out of a broken car with fractures of both legs, ankles, nose, ribs and three vertebrae, but when the doctors examined it, the pulse and blood pressure were normal. Is there, in principle, for a person who is so deeply immersed in himself, the path back? Poprazing the writer Ken Pardy, the rejection of racing in itself would be in a sense of suicide.
- Only those who do not move do not die at all, - said the French car rider Jean Bera after the death of Fee Portago. “But perhaps they are already dead?”
Enzo Ferrari company suffered disaster. He spent all his income on the races and was now acutely in need of money. He was doused with mud from all sides. The newspapers, which he continued to read daily, wrote about him now not as a “wizard from Maranello”, but as a “Maranello monster”. The wife of one of the riders openly called him a killer. But isn"t the next world champion appeared on Ferrari? Didn"t Ferrari raise the glory of the Italian auto industry to the level of the stratosphere? The native country turned away from him. His own people betrayed and left their commentator. The press only added oil into the fire, calling this situation a palace coup
Author:
Author:Эй Джей Бэйм
Cover:
Cover:Hard
Category:
- Category:Biographies & Memoirs
Paper:
Paper:Offset
ISBN:
ISBN:978-5-9614-7656-9
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