Ben Bowlin

Just to show you guys how much we enjoy reading listener mail -

Scott Benjamin

Have we got some?

Ben Bowlin

We’ve got some. Would you like to check it out?

Scott Benjamin

I would love to. Here we’ve got one from Gerardo. Gerardo is from the internet. He didn’t tell us where, so the internet. Here we go.

“Hi, guys. I just got done listening to the latest podcast,” which now won’t be the latest, but we’re reading it anyway. “It turns out that Ford did win,” like we said. Of course they did. He said for Ferrari, the closest places was an eighth place finish behind Ford in the GT 40.

Ben Bowlin

Wha-wha-wha.

Scott Benjamin

I know. I thought it was a little sooner. He found this when he was digging a little deeper into this. He said he wanted to look up the history of what’s really going on there, so I’m going to read this. I’m not 100 percent sure of the validity of some of this.

Ben Bowlin

I have not heard this before.

Scott Benjamin

I hadn’t either until this point. Otherwise, we would’ve brought this up during the podcast. This is a quote from wherever he grabbed this. It’s an excerpt from somewhere. “Negotiations started,” and this was way back in 1963, “We know that Ford never bought Ferrari, but do you know why?” It says, “I guess Henry Ford got a little greedy and monopolistic. He told Enzo Ferrari, who was to remain the sole operator of his Ferrari Motor Sports division, that he wouldn’t be allowed to race in the Indianapolis 500 if Henry Ford buys the company.”

Ben Bowlin

Oh.

Scott Benjamin

So Enzo got apparently really furious at this point and said, “No way, Ford. We’re not going to do it.” I don’t know. It says it wasn’t Enzo’s fault, but he says Ford bit off more than allowed. I’m confused by this. I thought this was just an “I’ll show you” from Ford move. I don’t know. I didn’t realize there was this whole Indy 500 tie-in with Enzo and wanting to be there.

Ben Bowlin

I feel like this just goes back to confirm my earlier suspicions about dealing with very influential, very important people. I will just alw
ays assume they’re vengeful and touchy. I won’t ever say that.

Scott Benjamin

They’ll blow these hundred-million-dollar deals over pride.

Ben Bowlin

Which is very nice, very polite? Let’s not forget that the Henry Ford that Gerardo and you and I are talking about is the son of the guy who ripped a car apart with his bare hands.