Go Like Hell: Ford, Ferrari, and Their Battle for Speed and Glory at Le Mans
A.J. Baime
By the early 1960s, Ford began to slowly lose ground to competitors. The new generation chose speed and style over the safety and comfort that Fords were associated with. While the grandson of the founder of the automobile empire, Henry Ford II, was thinking how to surprise the world, on the other side of the Atlantic, the Italian designer and race car driver Enzo Ferrari created completely different cars. Ferrari cars embodied elegance and won European races one after another, but Enzo's creations were the most fatal on sports tracks. The book by the American journalist AJ Baym "Ford vs 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 auto industry of America and Europe: piece masterpieces against the assembly line, grace against power, brilliant engineers of the Italian concern against the ingenious couple - Ford engineer Shelby and pilot Ken Miles.
