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Would you like to inspect the original subtitles? These are the user uploaded subtitles that are being translated: 1 00:01:28,506 --> 00:01:31,336 It all started with a business deal gone sour 2 00:01:33,219 --> 00:01:34,929 and what came out of that 3 00:01:34,929 --> 00:01:37,559 was the greatest rivalry in the history of racing. 4 00:01:40,059 --> 00:01:41,889 Ford. Ferrari. 5 00:01:41,894 --> 00:01:44,984 Two titans of the automobile industry 6 00:01:44,981 --> 00:01:48,401 waged war, at what was at the time in the 1960s 7 00:01:48,401 --> 00:01:50,071 the biggest race in the world: 8 00:01:50,069 --> 00:01:52,239 The 24 hours of le mans. 9 00:02:12,091 --> 00:02:14,221 You have to imagine the scene. 10 00:02:14,218 --> 00:02:17,008 250,000 people. 11 00:02:17,013 --> 00:02:20,063 Television cameras for the first time. 12 00:02:20,057 --> 00:02:23,437 People all over the world were watching this one race. 13 00:02:23,436 --> 00:02:26,266 It was like a Superbowl of speed. 14 00:02:26,272 --> 00:02:29,402 Definitely the most dangerous sporting event of any kind in the world. 15 00:02:32,278 --> 00:02:35,698 To win le mans, it meant that you were the best. 16 00:02:35,698 --> 00:02:38,198 Everybody drove in it. 17 00:02:38,200 --> 00:02:40,160 All the formula 1 stars at the time 18 00:02:40,161 --> 00:02:41,621 drove in le mans 19 00:02:41,621 --> 00:02:44,041 alongside all the sports car heroes. 20 00:02:44,040 --> 00:02:45,960 It's the ultimate venue. 21 00:02:45,958 --> 00:02:48,588 You win le mans, the whole planet knows. 22 00:02:51,631 --> 00:02:54,131 We're starting 55 cars. 23 00:02:54,133 --> 00:02:57,343 I don't think more than 15 or 20 are going to finish. 24 00:02:57,345 --> 00:02:59,095 For an automotive manufacturer, 25 00:02:59,096 --> 00:03:02,176 it proves their endurance more than any other race 26 00:03:02,183 --> 00:03:03,643 can possibly do. 27 00:03:03,643 --> 00:03:07,273 Commercially, it is the most important race to win 28 00:03:07,271 --> 00:03:09,571 in the world, for a car manufacturer. 29 00:03:13,653 --> 00:03:17,413 From the moment the second automobile was built, racing was born. 30 00:03:17,406 --> 00:03:21,486 And the car that would win is the car people wanted to buy. 31 00:03:21,494 --> 00:03:24,754 It took a lot of cheek to think it could rival the horse 32 00:03:24,747 --> 00:03:26,497 as a way of getting around. 33 00:03:33,172 --> 00:03:35,052 The car lost the race. 34 00:03:35,049 --> 00:03:37,589 But it won all the attention. 35 00:03:41,305 --> 00:03:44,305 And none was any too modest in the things he had to say 36 00:03:44,308 --> 00:03:46,478 about his own breed of horseless carriage. 37 00:03:48,187 --> 00:03:50,557 The best way to settle these competing claims 38 00:03:50,564 --> 00:03:54,484 was in a sport w.K. Vanderbilt brought to America from Europe. 39 00:03:54,485 --> 00:03:56,395 A race over public roads. 40 00:03:57,488 --> 00:04:00,488 By the third year of the race, 1906, 41 00:04:00,491 --> 00:04:04,081 2 million people turned out to witness this new sport 42 00:04:04,078 --> 00:04:07,328 where men and machine were linked as teammates. 43 00:04:07,331 --> 00:04:10,081 Racing at 60 mph on the straights. 44 00:04:10,084 --> 00:04:12,094 Only the fittest car survived. 45 00:04:12,086 --> 00:04:17,626 And those which held up in competition redoubled their boasting in advertising. 46 00:04:17,633 --> 00:04:20,053 From there on out, people who built cars 47 00:04:20,052 --> 00:04:22,802 knew they had to win races to market their cars. 48 00:04:22,805 --> 00:04:27,265 So racing spread the gospel of automobile companies all over the world. 49 00:04:27,268 --> 00:04:30,058 In Detroit, a man named Henry Ford 50 00:04:30,062 --> 00:04:32,402 was making what he called a quadracycle. 51 00:04:32,398 --> 00:04:37,068 It looked like a buggy, only it had no shafts or a horse to be harnessed to. 52 00:04:37,069 --> 00:04:41,739 The horsepower was going to come from a gasoline engine he had made himself. 53 00:04:41,741 --> 00:04:46,291 In 1901, Henry Ford was kind of struggling at that point. 54 00:04:46,287 --> 00:04:48,747 He would end up starting and failing twice 55 00:04:48,748 --> 00:04:51,168 before he started the Ford motor company. 56 00:04:51,167 --> 00:04:53,287 He was an engineer and a technical guy. 57 00:04:53,294 --> 00:04:56,554 And he was not one of the wealthy people at the time. 58 00:04:56,547 --> 00:05:00,377 He had this very pivotal race against Alexander winton. 59 00:05:00,384 --> 00:05:04,854 He had the crystal bowl victory winner for this race. 60 00:05:04,847 --> 00:05:07,217 He thought Alexander winton was 61 00:05:07,224 --> 00:05:09,394 the most important race car driver of the day. 62 00:05:09,393 --> 00:05:12,403 That maybe if he got some of his engineers and 63 00:05:12,396 --> 00:05:15,436 put together a car and raced winton, and beat winton, 64 00:05:15,441 --> 00:05:18,901 that would be the beginning of the new launch of the Ford motor company. 65 00:05:18,903 --> 00:05:23,243 He raced a car that he called "sweepstakes." 66 00:05:23,240 --> 00:05:27,160 But it was lighter and it was more efficient than Alexander winton's car. 67 00:05:27,161 --> 00:05:30,751 And he was behind Alexander throughout most of the race. 68 00:05:30,748 --> 00:05:33,538 And then Alexander's car began to slow, 69 00:05:33,542 --> 00:05:36,382 so he eventually caught up and passed him, and won the race. 70 00:05:36,378 --> 00:05:38,128 People came to him after the race 71 00:05:38,130 --> 00:05:42,090 and said "anything you want to do, Mr. Ford, we're happy to invest." 72 00:05:42,092 --> 00:05:44,392 That's always been something in my mind that has 73 00:05:44,386 --> 00:05:47,346 really kind of a key element of our company's DNA. 74 00:05:47,348 --> 00:05:49,888 Which is that we were really born on the racetrack. 75 00:05:49,892 --> 00:05:54,482 1923, I think, was the first year that le mans was run and there was a model-t racer. 76 00:05:54,480 --> 00:05:57,570 And various private companies had taken model-ts 77 00:05:57,566 --> 00:06:00,686 and adjusted them and used them in racing. 78 00:06:00,694 --> 00:06:03,784 That started the modern day history of the Ford motor company. 79 00:06:05,866 --> 00:06:09,406 Enzo Ferrari, was born northern Italy 80 00:06:09,411 --> 00:06:16,211 1898. Into a mixture of a rural and industrial area. 81 00:06:16,210 --> 00:06:20,710 His father was called Alberto and he was a metal worker. 82 00:06:20,714 --> 00:06:24,804 The family of Ferrari, they had a house in modena. 83 00:06:24,802 --> 00:06:28,512 They were producing parts for the Italian railway. 84 00:06:28,514 --> 00:06:33,444 My father, as a kid, he was not much interested in the family business. 85 00:06:34,478 --> 00:06:35,518 He was a dreamer. 86 00:06:37,356 --> 00:06:41,226 In 1908, father took Enzo 87 00:06:41,235 --> 00:06:45,315 to a big motor race called the coppa acerbo. 88 00:06:45,322 --> 00:06:49,412 He was fascinated by these racing cars. 89 00:06:49,410 --> 00:06:53,750 And so he fall in love with moto racing. 90 00:06:53,747 --> 00:06:57,877 And from that day onwards, he wanted to be a racing driver. 91 00:07:00,212 --> 00:07:03,382 The 1st world war happened. 92 00:07:03,382 --> 00:07:09,432 It was a tragedy for everyone. It was a tragedy for him. 93 00:07:09,430 --> 00:07:10,890 He lost a father. 94 00:07:10,890 --> 00:07:12,810 He lost a brother. 95 00:07:12,808 --> 00:07:16,308 Enzo is called into the service. 96 00:07:16,312 --> 00:07:20,772 He starts doing motor maintenance for the artillery regiment. 97 00:07:21,775 --> 00:07:23,565 Still, in the back of his mind, 98 00:07:23,569 --> 00:07:26,819 what he really wants to be is a race car driver. 99 00:07:28,407 --> 00:07:32,447 After the war, he did sell the house 100 00:07:32,453 --> 00:07:35,463 for buying racing cars. 101 00:07:35,456 --> 00:07:37,416 This is the reason for which at the beginning 102 00:07:37,416 --> 00:07:41,416 the people from modena thought he was crazy. 103 00:07:41,420 --> 00:07:44,260 For Mia-Romeo, he did one race 104 00:07:44,256 --> 00:07:49,796 called the coppa acerbo in 1924. 105 00:07:49,803 --> 00:07:52,933 Won that. And said that was the point 106 00:07:52,932 --> 00:07:55,852 when his life changed completely. 107 00:07:55,851 --> 00:07:59,771 That was when he said he became a real racing driver. 108 00:07:59,772 --> 00:08:04,402 At the same time, alfa-Romeo is going through all kinds of 109 00:08:04,401 --> 00:08:07,741 financial problems with the parent company. 110 00:08:07,738 --> 00:08:12,778 They can't be seen to be directly involved in motor racing, 111 00:08:12,785 --> 00:08:14,905 in the way that they have been. 112 00:08:14,912 --> 00:08:21,832 So they hive off the motor sport side to Enzo. 113 00:08:21,835 --> 00:08:26,835 He sets up a new organization called scuderia Ferrari. 114 00:08:26,840 --> 00:08:32,720 Which is in everything but name, is the alfa-Romeo racing team. 115 00:08:32,721 --> 00:08:36,851 For the first time, he had premises of his own. 116 00:08:36,850 --> 00:08:39,560 He also had a badge of his own. 117 00:08:39,561 --> 00:08:44,731 A black prancing horse on a yellow background. 118 00:08:44,733 --> 00:08:50,323 The prancing horse is a family story about my father. 119 00:08:50,322 --> 00:08:53,912 That he was a young racing driver... 120 00:08:53,909 --> 00:08:56,949 And he won, two years in a row, 121 00:08:56,954 --> 00:08:59,834 a race called circuito del savio. 122 00:08:59,832 --> 00:09:04,792 And in the crowd was a guy called count baracca. 123 00:09:04,795 --> 00:09:11,795 His son, francesco, had been a wwi fighter Ace 124 00:09:11,802 --> 00:09:14,012 in the Italian airforce. 125 00:09:14,013 --> 00:09:18,893 He had 34 kills before he was killed himself. 126 00:09:18,892 --> 00:09:23,022 The mother of francesco baracca told Mr. Ferrari 127 00:09:23,022 --> 00:09:26,732 to use the emblem of her son for his car because 128 00:09:26,734 --> 00:09:31,784 he was the only man in Italy eligible to use the prancing horse. 129 00:09:31,780 --> 00:09:35,780 And to use the logo in 1929. 130 00:09:35,784 --> 00:09:39,754 'T “.1. L, ll I 131 00:09:39,747 --> 00:09:44,377 while Ferrari is running alfa-scuderia Ferrari, 132 00:09:44,376 --> 00:09:46,586 they win everything there is worth winning. 133 00:09:46,587 --> 00:09:50,377 They win grand prix, they win the targa florio, 134 00:09:50,382 --> 00:09:54,972 and from 1931 to 1934 they win le mans 4 times. 135 00:09:55,763 --> 00:09:56,973 All on his watch. 136 00:09:58,724 --> 00:10:03,104 One thing that goes all the way through Ferrari's life, 137 00:10:03,103 --> 00:10:06,863 he was an individual. He did things for him. 138 00:10:06,857 --> 00:10:14,107 So when Ferrari eventually negotiates his way out of alfa Romeo 139 00:10:14,114 --> 00:10:18,994 around 1939, he gets quite a good financial payoff. 140 00:10:18,994 --> 00:10:23,714 But part of the settlement is that he will not be allowed to build cars 141 00:10:23,707 --> 00:10:26,577 using his own name for 4 years. 142 00:10:26,585 --> 00:10:33,875 As it turns out, those 4 years will be 4 years of wartime. 143 00:10:38,889 --> 00:10:42,889 During wwii, we had basically converted all of our factories 144 00:10:42,893 --> 00:10:44,443 for war production. 145 00:10:46,438 --> 00:10:49,148 Tanks and airplanes and jeeps and everything. 146 00:10:49,149 --> 00:10:52,899 It really was Henry and edsel's idea to transform Willow run 147 00:10:52,903 --> 00:10:55,073 and build bombers. 148 00:10:55,072 --> 00:10:57,122 Henry and edsel wanted to help the war effort. 149 00:10:57,116 --> 00:10:58,906 They wanted to do whatever they could 150 00:10:58,909 --> 00:11:02,199 to help win the war. Many of the history books would say 151 00:11:02,204 --> 00:11:07,714 if the Ford motor company hadn't stepped up and built the bombers at Willow run 152 00:11:07,709 --> 00:11:10,749 we might not have won the war. 153 00:11:10,754 --> 00:11:16,134 The business during the war was producing grinding machines for the army. 154 00:11:16,135 --> 00:11:19,845 And this was the means to survive. 155 00:11:19,847 --> 00:11:25,227 To have his employees working, even during the war. 156 00:11:25,227 --> 00:11:28,227 But at the same time, he was designing cars. 157 00:11:28,230 --> 00:11:32,860 And he had engineers who were working for him designing cars. 158 00:11:35,863 --> 00:11:41,243 Modena is quite heavily bombed during the war. 159 00:11:41,243 --> 00:11:45,713 L"i' i“ I, ll I lf 'l., ill I I I 160 00:11:45,706 --> 00:11:49,206 it's highly likely that the bombers that took out Ferrari's factory 161 00:11:49,209 --> 00:11:52,549 had come from the factories of Ford motor company. 162 00:11:52,546 --> 00:11:55,716 Ferrari needs somewhere a bit quieter. 163 00:11:55,716 --> 00:11:57,966 With the money he got from alfa-Romeo 164 00:11:57,968 --> 00:12:02,638 he bought ground in maranello, where he wanted to 165 00:12:02,639 --> 00:12:08,099 build the factory with the purpose to produce cars. 166 00:12:12,608 --> 00:12:17,988 I deem this reply a full acceptance of potsdam declaration, 167 00:12:17,988 --> 00:12:23,578 which specifies the unconditional surrender of Japan. 168 00:12:23,577 --> 00:12:30,327 After the war, in 1947, the design of the first Ferrari was ready 169 00:12:30,334 --> 00:12:32,544 two years after the war. 170 00:12:32,544 --> 00:12:35,714 The 125 s. It was a 12 cylinder. 171 00:12:35,714 --> 00:12:40,514 You have to understand something. Italy was destroyed. 172 00:12:41,970 --> 00:12:44,010 Everything was a ruin. 173 00:12:44,014 --> 00:12:47,314 And to start producing racing cars 174 00:12:47,309 --> 00:12:51,019 under these conditions was considered to be crazy. 175 00:12:51,021 --> 00:12:52,901 He was following his dreams. 176 00:12:52,898 --> 00:12:56,898 His passion for engines and for racing. 177 00:12:56,902 --> 00:13:01,202 The new Ferrari, it's very, very sophisticated. 178 00:13:01,198 --> 00:13:06,738 He built very small engines, but very sophisticated engines. 179 00:13:06,745 --> 00:13:09,245 And they were purely designed for racing. 180 00:13:09,248 --> 00:13:12,998 So it had overhead cam shafts, hairpin Springs, 181 00:13:13,001 --> 00:13:17,261 lots of carburetors. Everything about it was a racing car. 182 00:13:17,256 --> 00:13:20,376 The car, shortly after it's introduction, 183 00:13:20,384 --> 00:13:24,974 won the grand prix of Rome: Circuito di caracalla 184 00:13:24,972 --> 00:13:28,102 he only built two 125s, 185 00:13:28,100 --> 00:13:31,980 but those two cars did so much, 186 00:13:31,979 --> 00:13:34,859 that Ferrari is now a name in his own right. 187 00:13:34,856 --> 00:13:37,986 The cars are called Ferrari, and they start winning. 188 00:13:40,070 --> 00:13:43,660 Henry had gotten quite a bit older in the 40s. 189 00:13:43,657 --> 00:13:47,657 He can't run Ford motor company. Edsel died. 190 00:13:47,661 --> 00:13:52,001 So they bring my father, Henry Ford ii, out of the Navy. 191 00:13:51,999 --> 00:13:55,879 My grandfather, for as strong a personality that he had, 192 00:13:55,877 --> 00:13:58,247 I think still really created that team atmosphere. 193 00:13:58,255 --> 00:14:00,295 And he brought people in and delegated, 194 00:14:00,299 --> 00:14:05,679 and relied on other people to make important decisions. 195 00:14:05,679 --> 00:14:09,059 Henry Ford the 1st was a little bit less Democratic 196 00:14:09,057 --> 00:14:11,017 about the decision making process. 197 00:14:11,018 --> 00:14:14,768 He was the end-all-be-all of the Ford motor company and 198 00:14:14,771 --> 00:14:16,861 he didn't really ask other people for help. 199 00:14:16,857 --> 00:14:19,857 It was his way or the highway. 200 00:14:19,860 --> 00:14:22,740 Young Henry Ford, he had no experience. 201 00:14:22,738 --> 00:14:25,988 But he had a good sense of what the right thing to do was. 202 00:14:25,991 --> 00:14:29,291 So he went and hired a whole bunch of really smart guys 203 00:14:29,286 --> 00:14:32,156 and brought them to Ford motor company. And they were finance people, 204 00:14:32,164 --> 00:14:34,084 manufacturing people, marketing and sales people. 205 00:14:34,082 --> 00:14:40,002 It was really a group of, probably, the smartest business people of the time. 206 00:14:40,005 --> 00:14:42,205 Known as the "whiz kids." 207 00:14:42,215 --> 00:14:46,925 1949 is a really, really big year. 208 00:14:46,928 --> 00:14:50,178 It's the year that le mans comes back 209 00:14:50,182 --> 00:14:54,232 onto the calendar after the war. 210 00:14:54,227 --> 00:14:58,857 It's also the first opportunity for Ferrari to enter le mans. 211 00:14:58,857 --> 00:15:04,987 Although he had been involved in the four alfa-Romeo wins before the war. 212 00:15:04,988 --> 00:15:08,068 Ferrari rocks up at le mans with 213 00:15:08,075 --> 00:15:11,865 two 166 barchetta cars. 214 00:15:11,870 --> 00:15:14,250 The car was driven by Luigi chinetti. 215 00:15:14,247 --> 00:15:20,167 And chinetti won the le mans 24 hour race with a Ferrari car 216 00:15:20,170 --> 00:15:25,170 and it was really a very impressive win. 217 00:15:25,175 --> 00:15:29,255 First time out for Ferrari, wins the world's biggest motor race. 218 00:15:29,262 --> 00:15:31,972 He's spending a lot of money on his racing. 219 00:15:31,973 --> 00:15:35,893 Everything Ferrari does, he does the expensive way. 220 00:15:35,894 --> 00:15:37,564 He does the sophisticated way. 221 00:15:37,562 --> 00:15:40,402 At this point, Ferrari put everything into his company. 222 00:15:40,399 --> 00:15:44,399 This was something that he would continue to do for the rest of his life. 223 00:15:44,403 --> 00:15:46,453 When you think of Ferrari, and what Ferrari means 224 00:15:46,446 --> 00:15:49,446 you would think the founder of that company would be extraordinarily wealthy, 225 00:15:49,449 --> 00:15:54,749 but he never was. Because every lira was always spent on racing. 226 00:15:54,746 --> 00:15:59,786 The operation is getting to the point where he needs more and more money. 227 00:15:59,793 --> 00:16:03,883 So he will then have to sell cars for the road. 228 00:16:03,880 --> 00:16:06,380 Which is the last thing he wants to do. 229 00:16:06,383 --> 00:16:09,013 America is a dream market 230 00:16:09,010 --> 00:16:12,100 for European-type sporty cars. 231 00:16:12,097 --> 00:16:17,177 Chinetti is Italian born, lives in America. 232 00:16:17,185 --> 00:16:19,345 And he imports cars. 233 00:16:20,939 --> 00:16:23,479 So, very quickly 234 00:16:23,483 --> 00:16:28,153 America has a Ferrari imported. 235 00:16:28,155 --> 00:16:31,815 Because of that victory and because of Luigi chinetti, 236 00:16:31,825 --> 00:16:36,865 everything started and the business grows in the United States. 237 00:16:38,373 --> 00:16:41,383 At this point in their history, fords and ferraris 238 00:16:41,376 --> 00:16:45,836 were as far apart in the automotive spectrum as could be. 239 00:16:45,839 --> 00:16:47,879 The new 4-door custom sedan 240 00:16:47,883 --> 00:16:50,433 is a perfect example of the balanced engineering 241 00:16:50,427 --> 00:16:53,807 built into every model of the new 1949 line. 242 00:16:56,975 --> 00:16:58,975 There aren't any curvy roads in Detroit. 243 00:16:58,977 --> 00:17:02,347 This is the mid-west. Everything is flat and straight. 244 00:17:02,355 --> 00:17:04,565 Their whole idea of what a great car was 245 00:17:04,566 --> 00:17:08,396 this idea that you get into this living room on wheels. 246 00:17:08,403 --> 00:17:12,913 And you plug it in and it goes down the road and it's very soft. 247 00:17:12,908 --> 00:17:14,618 It isn't a sporty automobile. 248 00:17:14,618 --> 00:17:17,908 The whole idea of a sporty automobile that handles well 249 00:17:17,913 --> 00:17:20,923 didn't resonate there because there was no reason for it. 250 00:17:20,916 --> 00:17:23,126 And out on the highway, the Ford of your future, 251 00:17:23,126 --> 00:17:25,126 with its lower, stable center of gravity, 252 00:17:25,128 --> 00:17:28,088 provides a smooth mid-ship ride. 253 00:17:28,089 --> 00:17:31,299 Quiet as a whisper and gentle as a summer breeze. 254 00:17:31,301 --> 00:17:34,851 The auto companies didn't really want to compete on innovation. 255 00:17:34,846 --> 00:17:38,136 They wanted to compete on advertising and marketing. 256 00:17:38,141 --> 00:17:42,231 And to do that, they wanted to compete on things people could see 257 00:17:42,229 --> 00:17:45,309 like styling and horsepower. 258 00:17:45,315 --> 00:17:48,105 The competition was fierce over horsepower. 259 00:17:48,109 --> 00:17:51,399 In the minds of adults, maybe it wouldn't have led to more reckless driving. 260 00:17:51,404 --> 00:17:55,994 But in the minds of youngsters? 16, 17, 18 year olds? 261 00:17:58,245 --> 00:18:02,915 They were technologically stagnant in Detroit on fuel efficiency, 262 00:18:02,916 --> 00:18:08,166 ease of repair, and above all, crash-worthiness and better brakes and tires. 263 00:18:11,925 --> 00:18:15,635 Sports fans today, i don't think, could even imagine 264 00:18:15,637 --> 00:18:20,557 how violent motor-sport was during the 1950s and 1960s. 265 00:18:20,559 --> 00:18:23,309 Death was almost routine at racetracks. 266 00:18:23,311 --> 00:18:28,151 The worst ever accident in motor racing was at le mans in 1955. 267 00:18:28,149 --> 00:18:32,569 All seems to be going smoothly when disaster strikes at 125mph. 268 00:18:32,571 --> 00:18:35,281 Levegh's Mercedes collides and blows up. 269 00:18:39,077 --> 00:18:44,417 Huge parts of the car went straight through the packed grandstands. 270 00:18:44,416 --> 00:18:48,416 Around 90 people were killed, including the driver. 271 00:18:48,420 --> 00:18:52,090 Back then, I mean, when you got in the car as a driver 272 00:18:52,090 --> 00:18:55,220 I have to imagine, you had to be ready to die 273 00:18:55,218 --> 00:18:59,048 because there was a strong possibility you wouldn't survive the race. 274 00:18:59,055 --> 00:19:03,265 Unfortunately, I think that's part of what added to the spectacle of le mans. 275 00:19:03,268 --> 00:19:05,598 The circuits weren't safe. The cars weren't safe. 276 00:19:05,604 --> 00:19:08,024 If you had a big accident, it would burst into flames. 277 00:19:11,151 --> 00:19:14,361 Coming through tertre Rouge at le mans, for example, 278 00:19:14,362 --> 00:19:16,572 there's a big line of popper trees. 279 00:19:16,573 --> 00:19:20,993 Well their idea of safety in those days was to paint them white up to about head height 280 00:19:20,994 --> 00:19:24,254 so the headlights would show this white tree. 281 00:19:24,247 --> 00:19:27,327 And then they'd lean a straw bale on the first one. 282 00:19:27,334 --> 00:19:32,054 You had drivers driving cars at over 200 mph down the straight 283 00:19:32,047 --> 00:19:33,547 and they're not wearing seatbelts. 284 00:19:33,548 --> 00:19:38,678 Half the drivers did not wear a seatbelt because of the danger of fire. 285 00:19:38,678 --> 00:19:41,718 They'd rather be able to jump out or be thrown out, 286 00:19:41,723 --> 00:19:44,143 than risk the fire. 287 00:19:44,142 --> 00:19:48,152 I was in 6 fires in 4 years. They caught fire all the time. 288 00:19:48,146 --> 00:19:50,396 You didn't have to crash. You're be driving along 289 00:19:52,442 --> 00:19:54,612 up they'd go, 290 00:19:54,611 --> 00:19:58,741 eddy sacks. Dave MacDonald. So many other great drivers that 291 00:19:58,740 --> 00:20:01,370 that lost their lives in fires. 292 00:20:04,496 --> 00:20:10,036 Every year you would expect maybe 1-in-4 drivers 293 00:20:10,043 --> 00:20:16,303 to have a huge accident and some of them to die. And it was just accepted. 294 00:20:16,299 --> 00:20:20,719 The owners and the race team people, they were much less concerned 295 00:20:20,720 --> 00:20:23,510 and they would say hey, if you're a driver, you're in a dangerous business 296 00:20:23,515 --> 00:20:25,305 and that's too bad. 297 00:20:25,308 --> 00:20:30,148 Ferrari were the worst. Safety didn't come into their mind. 298 00:20:30,146 --> 00:20:33,316 And if a driver ever mentioned it, you're out on your ear. 299 00:20:33,316 --> 00:20:39,276 Ferrari wasn't doing anything that all the other car companies weren't doing. 300 00:20:39,280 --> 00:20:41,660 But, they were doing more of it. 301 00:20:41,658 --> 00:20:47,248 My father was always telling me not to become too friendly with the driver. 302 00:20:47,247 --> 00:20:51,247 Because one day, they die. 303 00:20:51,251 --> 00:20:56,011 The history of those years is a tragedy. 304 00:20:58,299 --> 00:21:02,299 The Mille miglia was a road race around Italy. 305 00:21:02,303 --> 00:21:06,313 1957 there were 5 ferraris. 306 00:21:06,307 --> 00:21:10,807 One of them is driven by a guy named Alfonso de portago. 307 00:21:10,812 --> 00:21:14,772 Quite early in the race, he has a tire blow. 308 00:21:14,774 --> 00:21:18,864 He goes into a group of spectators. 309 00:21:18,862 --> 00:21:22,702 Portago is killed. His co-driver is killed. 310 00:21:22,699 --> 00:21:27,749 Around 10 people in the crowd are killed. And 5 of those are children. 311 00:21:28,830 --> 00:21:32,670 And that is one of the biggest 312 00:21:32,667 --> 00:21:35,627 disasters for Ferrari in racing. 313 00:21:37,088 --> 00:21:40,258 The Mille miglia was immediately banned. 314 00:21:40,258 --> 00:21:44,598 In Italian law, if a driver was killed in one of your cars 315 00:21:44,596 --> 00:21:48,516 the manufacturer has to answer to the law. 316 00:21:48,516 --> 00:21:52,096 So in this particular case, Ferrari is investigated. 317 00:21:52,103 --> 00:21:56,733 Facing manslaughter charges, it goes to legal process. 318 00:21:56,733 --> 00:22:03,203 And in the end, Ferrari isn't guilty of anything because it was a racing accident. 319 00:22:03,198 --> 00:22:06,408 There was a group called the automobile manufacturers of America. 320 00:22:06,409 --> 00:22:11,329 And in 1957, the ama had essentially mandated that 321 00:22:11,331 --> 00:22:14,751 automakers could not participate in racing. And my grandfather 322 00:22:14,751 --> 00:22:19,631 was the chairman of that committee, so he obviously took that very seriously. 323 00:22:19,631 --> 00:22:25,511 And as a result he basically pulled all of Ford motor company's efforts out of racing. 324 00:22:25,512 --> 00:22:30,642 When Ford did that, they sold off all the surplus cars and equipment 325 00:22:30,642 --> 00:22:33,602 to my father and one of his race drivers, Ralph moody. 326 00:22:33,603 --> 00:22:37,523 They bought, for $15,000-$16,000, the surplus 327 00:22:37,524 --> 00:22:43,154 cars, parts, and tools. And it became holman and moody. 328 00:22:43,154 --> 00:22:47,284 My father's management style was very tough, very rude, 329 00:22:47,283 --> 00:22:50,293 very direct to the people. 330 00:22:50,286 --> 00:22:53,826 But he was always listening the people. 331 00:22:53,832 --> 00:22:57,882 But making his own decisions his way. 332 00:22:57,877 --> 00:23:02,837 In 1961, Ferrari almost threw the whole thing away. 333 00:23:02,841 --> 00:23:07,721 And it was about an internal problem that got out of hand. 334 00:23:07,720 --> 00:23:13,230 Laura Ferrari, Enzo's wife, was spending more time in the factory 335 00:23:13,226 --> 00:23:18,976 working on management. A lot of the high ranking 336 00:23:18,982 --> 00:23:24,822 engineers and other people in the factory didn't like the way she worked. 337 00:23:24,821 --> 00:23:27,531 - I -'"- .A - '1. ["1 I 'i ' lfli" 338 00:23:27,532 --> 00:23:31,702 he did ask Ferrari to ask his wife 339 00:23:31,703 --> 00:23:33,873 to stay away from the factory. 340 00:23:33,872 --> 00:23:38,252 He told Ferrari that either he went or she went. 341 00:23:39,002 --> 00:23:41,342 He went. 342 00:23:41,337 --> 00:23:45,877 Several of the most important engineers 343 00:23:45,884 --> 00:23:50,764 then wrote a letter to Ferrari backing the guy who had gone, 344 00:23:52,390 --> 00:23:54,560 and saying the same thing. 345 00:23:54,559 --> 00:23:59,479 "He comes back or we go." They went. 346 00:23:59,480 --> 00:24:02,230 All the top management of Ferrari, 347 00:24:02,233 --> 00:24:08,283 racing team, and also sales managers... 348 00:24:08,281 --> 00:24:13,701 So all of them had been fired in one day by my father. 349 00:24:13,703 --> 00:24:17,923 And he said to all of the Ferrari people at that time: 350 00:25:33,825 --> 00:25:37,575 The big companies in Detroit, Chrysler, Ford, and general motors, 351 00:25:37,578 --> 00:25:40,748 they had a gentleman agreement not to put money in racing. 352 00:25:40,748 --> 00:25:42,788 We all agreed we weren't going to be in racing, 353 00:25:42,792 --> 00:25:45,842 but there was a lot of stuff going on behind the scenes. 354 00:25:45,837 --> 00:25:50,047 There were all sorts of maneuvers they used. They would support third parties 355 00:25:50,049 --> 00:25:53,549 who could have deniability. "Well, it wasn't gm." 356 00:25:53,553 --> 00:25:55,973 They would use police parts. Things like that. 357 00:25:58,099 --> 00:26:01,889 One of the programs that got cut off on this was the gm corvette. 358 00:26:01,894 --> 00:26:04,404 Bill Mitchell said we're not going to let that happen. 359 00:26:04,397 --> 00:26:08,067 This whole anti-racing thing is going to blow over, so, 360 00:26:08,067 --> 00:26:13,737 let's hide this program and we'll design and build a new corvette in secret. 361 00:26:13,740 --> 00:26:17,160 These executives had an agreement, that they would not spend money on racing. 362 00:26:17,160 --> 00:26:19,700 But general motors was cheating and everybody knew it. 363 00:26:19,704 --> 00:26:22,584 This was in the newspapers that they were cheating. 364 00:26:22,582 --> 00:26:26,172 The corvette was dominating the American sports car racing world. 365 00:26:26,169 --> 00:26:28,709 The corvettes were winning everything. 366 00:26:28,713 --> 00:26:31,553 People were paying attention to racing in this country. 367 00:26:31,549 --> 00:26:34,179 They were noticing who won on Sunday. 368 00:26:34,177 --> 00:26:39,387 And there really was a strong correlation to sales on Monday. 369 00:26:39,390 --> 00:26:44,390 We didn't have that performance component of our brand that customers wanted. 370 00:26:44,395 --> 00:26:48,605 Ford had the galaxy. Ford had the thunderbird. 371 00:26:48,608 --> 00:26:51,568 They really had nothing that could compete with the corvette. 372 00:26:51,569 --> 00:26:56,739 Gm had something like 60% market share. And over the course of a year 373 00:26:56,741 --> 00:27:00,041 there had literally been almost a 15-point swing 374 00:27:00,036 --> 00:27:04,536 where they stole 15% of market share from Ford. 375 00:27:04,540 --> 00:27:08,500 Henry Ford flipped out and he says, hell with you guys. 376 00:27:08,503 --> 00:27:11,843 If you're cheating and you're not going to hold up the ban, 377 00:27:11,839 --> 00:27:18,429 I'm announcing right now, publicly were not going to do it and we're going racing. 378 00:27:20,181 --> 00:27:24,231 Henry is at a motor race. He's at sebring. 379 00:27:24,227 --> 00:27:28,857 Sees a Ferrari win and says, we need those red cars. 380 00:27:32,151 --> 00:27:35,821 My grandfather knew that we wanted to win le mans. 381 00:27:35,822 --> 00:27:39,742 And Ferrari had won le mans, had been winning le mans. 382 00:27:39,742 --> 00:27:41,242 I think he felt the easiest way to do it 383 00:27:41,244 --> 00:27:44,084 was just to buy Ferrari and merge the companies 384 00:27:44,080 --> 00:27:46,920 and use their kind of technical expertise to help win. 385 00:27:46,916 --> 00:27:51,706 Ferrari would bring a commercial sports car that could compete with the corvette. 386 00:27:51,712 --> 00:27:54,922 And a racing team with international pedigree. 387 00:27:54,924 --> 00:28:00,474 Ferrari built a few customer cars to pay for his racing. 388 00:28:00,471 --> 00:28:06,981 Which is interesting in one way because it's the exact opposite of the Ford story. 389 00:28:06,978 --> 00:28:11,398 Ford went back into racing to sell customer cars. 390 00:28:12,859 --> 00:28:16,649 Win on Sunday, sell on Monday. Really opposite views. 391 00:28:17,864 --> 00:28:19,824 They made an approach to Ferrari to 392 00:28:19,824 --> 00:28:23,164 investigate if he was eventually willing to sell the company. 393 00:28:23,161 --> 00:28:27,911 And Ferrari said that he was willing to speak about it in any case. 394 00:28:27,915 --> 00:28:31,705 And to see what were the terms for the sale. 395 00:28:31,711 --> 00:28:36,721 There was a lot of effort put in to making this deal a reality. 396 00:28:36,716 --> 00:28:40,926 The lawyers, the accounts, everybody went over there and went through negotiations. 397 00:28:40,928 --> 00:28:45,678 And kind of hashed out this deal where there would be two companies. 398 00:28:45,683 --> 00:28:51,563 A Ferrari-Ford division with the purpose to take part in races. 399 00:28:51,564 --> 00:28:55,904 And a Ford-Ferrari division with the purpose to manufacture cars 400 00:28:55,902 --> 00:28:59,072 for road use. Gran turismo cars. 401 00:28:59,071 --> 00:29:01,741 The Ford team tried to put a valuation on the company 402 00:29:01,741 --> 00:29:04,741 and I think, Enzo, in his mind, had a valuation. 403 00:29:04,744 --> 00:29:10,254 They were, I think at first pretty far apart, then they ended up settling $15 million. 404 00:29:10,249 --> 00:29:14,789 We'll try to accommodate your desires as best we can. 405 00:29:14,795 --> 00:29:17,835 My father thought that this was going to be a done deal. 406 00:29:17,840 --> 00:29:21,800 Ford motor company was going to walk away with an incredible brand. 407 00:29:21,802 --> 00:29:25,892 And then all of a sudden this racing thing just exploded. 408 00:29:25,890 --> 00:29:28,350 The sticking point was the racing side of the business. 409 00:29:28,351 --> 00:29:33,901 That we be called Ferrari-Ford. That would be owned by Ferrari, by Enzo. 410 00:29:33,898 --> 00:29:37,028 But there was a stipulation in the contract that said 411 00:29:37,026 --> 00:29:41,236 Ford would still have veto power or control over 412 00:29:41,239 --> 00:29:46,239 what series was raced, where the cars would race, who the drivers would be, etc. 413 00:29:46,244 --> 00:29:49,124 Ferrari said no, i don't want to sell it. 414 00:29:49,121 --> 00:29:53,081 He didn't want to accept any restriction on motor racing. 415 00:29:53,084 --> 00:29:55,924 His choice was for the freedom. 416 00:29:55,920 --> 00:30:00,920 Ferrari used that gambit to try to sell the program to fiat 417 00:30:00,925 --> 00:30:03,925 because he didn't want the Americans to take over his company. 418 00:30:15,273 --> 00:30:17,693 Enzo didn't want anyone telling him how to run 419 00:30:17,692 --> 00:30:19,862 his racing business in Europe. 420 00:30:19,860 --> 00:30:24,320 And my grandfather didn't want anyone telling him how to run the racing business in Europe. 421 00:30:24,323 --> 00:30:29,123 The final moment came sitting in his rather monastic office, 422 00:30:29,120 --> 00:30:32,250 and his works in modena, and he said, 423 00:30:32,248 --> 00:30:36,958 I don't want to race in the Indianapolis 500. 424 00:30:36,961 --> 00:30:39,711 He turned Ford down. 425 00:30:39,714 --> 00:30:42,224 My father was extremely disappointed. 426 00:30:42,216 --> 00:30:46,006 That's when he decided, all right, we're gonna beat you. 427 00:30:46,012 --> 00:30:48,892 And we're going to beat you at your own game, in your backyard. 428 00:30:53,060 --> 00:30:55,020 After the Ferrari deal fell apart, 429 00:30:55,021 --> 00:30:59,191 Ford had to create this car that could beat Ferrari 430 00:30:59,191 --> 00:31:01,281 and win le mans. 431 00:31:01,277 --> 00:31:04,987 If you're going to compete at le mans, you need a car with very high top speed. 432 00:31:04,989 --> 00:31:07,909 So you can get down the straight very, very quickly. 433 00:31:07,908 --> 00:31:10,738 My grandfather formed this division of the company called 434 00:31:10,745 --> 00:31:11,695 Ford advanced vehicles. 435 00:31:11,705 --> 00:31:15,115 And took the best engineers he could find and 436 00:31:15,124 --> 00:31:18,344 they came up with the original gt40. 437 00:31:18,336 --> 00:31:21,046 They designed everything. 438 00:31:21,047 --> 00:31:24,877 They designed a specific magnesium casting, 439 00:31:24,884 --> 00:31:29,934 with 92 separate parts. All custom fabricated and custom made. 440 00:31:29,930 --> 00:31:31,890 Just for the peddle assembly. 441 00:31:31,891 --> 00:31:36,981 The chassis was a unibody, but it's as detailed and 442 00:31:36,979 --> 00:31:42,359 complicated a unibody as anything they did for mustang or any of the production cars. 443 00:31:42,360 --> 00:31:44,900 It was a purposely built racecar. 444 00:31:48,032 --> 00:31:50,332 It was maybe heavier than it should have been, 445 00:31:50,326 --> 00:31:51,986 but it was very nice to drive. 446 00:31:51,994 --> 00:31:56,004 It was beautifully finished inside, the seats, and the controls were very easy to use. 447 00:31:58,084 --> 00:31:59,884 They were built to race. 448 00:31:59,877 --> 00:32:04,877 When you go into a corner in the gt40, it's meant to go around there. 449 00:32:04,882 --> 00:32:11,102 The design of the gt40 was really representing a big change in motor racing. 450 00:32:11,097 --> 00:32:14,767 My father was surprised by that car. 451 00:32:14,767 --> 00:32:17,187 The design was very impressive. 452 00:32:17,186 --> 00:32:22,066 The size and shape of the gt40 made it such a unique vehicle. 453 00:32:22,066 --> 00:32:26,736 I'm not sure if people had seen a car that was so low. 454 00:32:26,737 --> 00:32:30,277 So it was clearly a very unique and dynamic design. 455 00:32:33,994 --> 00:32:39,874 Ford had invested a lot in making it bulletproof for racing. 456 00:32:39,875 --> 00:32:43,875 The money Ford spent in racing for le mans 457 00:32:43,879 --> 00:32:46,549 was the biggest amount of money ever, 458 00:32:46,549 --> 00:32:53,009 in one big wad, to get dumped into racing. It just changed the scene for everyone. 459 00:32:53,013 --> 00:32:56,983 Especially for le mans, if you want to win from zero, 460 00:32:56,976 --> 00:33:02,476 you have to invest more money than the team that has been winning. 461 00:33:02,481 --> 00:33:07,491 We would get anything that we wanted. If it was a sensible choice, 462 00:33:07,486 --> 00:33:11,566 and if there was a need for it. If helped durability or speed, 463 00:33:11,574 --> 00:33:15,084 or performance, we had no problem getting it. 464 00:33:18,914 --> 00:33:22,334 We felt really good about our chances at le mans. 465 00:33:24,211 --> 00:33:26,841 Ferrari had a proven track record. 466 00:33:26,839 --> 00:33:31,049 Winning le mans year after year, every year the car was better. Faster. 467 00:33:31,051 --> 00:33:34,101 Mauro forghieri, the young, new chief engineer at Ferrari 468 00:33:34,096 --> 00:33:37,846 was about to instigate some very radical moves. 469 00:33:53,532 --> 00:33:57,082 Mid-rear engine racing cars. Both in formula-1 and sports cars. 470 00:33:57,077 --> 00:33:58,287 That had never happened at Ferrari. 471 00:33:58,287 --> 00:34:01,667 It was a radical move to put the engine behind the driver. 472 00:34:29,193 --> 00:34:31,573 Le mans always had hundreds of thousands of spectators, 473 00:34:31,570 --> 00:34:33,660 but this year it was overflowing. 474 00:34:33,656 --> 00:34:38,236 Ford's debut at le mans drew millions of eyes to that race around the world. 475 00:34:38,244 --> 00:34:40,294 The le mans 24 hour race at last. 476 00:34:40,287 --> 00:34:43,537 And three gleaming Ford gts are present. 477 00:34:43,541 --> 00:34:45,881 There was a tremendous amount of publicity 478 00:34:45,876 --> 00:34:47,036 at the fact that Ford motor company 479 00:34:47,044 --> 00:34:51,014 was going to enter the le mans race with these new gt40s. 480 00:34:51,006 --> 00:34:52,216 This is the Ford. 481 00:34:52,216 --> 00:34:55,126 The blue-and-white Ford bearing the American racing colors. 482 00:34:55,135 --> 00:34:57,925 The lowest car, by far, in the field. 483 00:34:57,930 --> 00:35:00,560 Do you feel the preparation of the Ford 484 00:35:00,558 --> 00:35:02,638 is equal to the preparation of the Ferrari? 485 00:35:02,643 --> 00:35:05,653 After which has won for, i don't know how many years. 486 00:35:05,646 --> 00:35:09,186 I think the preparation is every bit as equal, only problem is, 487 00:35:09,191 --> 00:35:10,981 that this is a new car 488 00:35:10,985 --> 00:35:15,235 and it isn't related to any other car that we've run before. 489 00:35:15,239 --> 00:35:19,489 Whereas ferraris are usually a development of something else that's already existed. 490 00:35:19,493 --> 00:35:22,583 Two of the great manufacturers from either side of the Atlantic 491 00:35:22,580 --> 00:35:28,630 are going to tangle for the first time. The stage is set for a war of speed. 492 00:35:28,627 --> 00:35:32,417 At 4pm, the starter drops his flag and runs for safety. 493 00:35:32,423 --> 00:35:37,183 But disappointment. Phil hill's Ford is seriously delayed with fuel vaporization troubles. 494 00:35:51,025 --> 00:35:54,435 In the opening laps, the gt40 is furiously fast. 495 00:35:54,445 --> 00:35:57,235 There's a helicopter camera car following it. 496 00:35:57,239 --> 00:35:59,529 Its top speed is incredible. 497 00:35:59,533 --> 00:36:02,083 Do you reckon you've got anything up your sleeve 498 00:36:02,077 --> 00:36:04,447 you can pull out a little bit more? 499 00:36:04,455 --> 00:36:09,415 I could pull out 15 seconds if they wanted it, but we're trying to finish 24 hours. 500 00:36:09,418 --> 00:36:12,208 You mean they won't let you pull out the 15 seconds? 501 00:36:14,506 --> 00:36:20,046 Ford's first casualty is Richard atwood from britain, driving a gt40. 502 00:36:20,054 --> 00:36:23,314 Going down the straight, I guess a fuel line came loose 503 00:36:23,307 --> 00:36:26,477 and I could see through the rear view mirror and the 504 00:36:26,477 --> 00:36:30,227 glass partition between the engine bay and the passenger side 505 00:36:30,230 --> 00:36:32,230 the flames coming up. 506 00:36:32,232 --> 00:36:35,532 And suddenly there was a woof underneath the bonnet. 507 00:36:35,527 --> 00:36:37,487 And I stepped away from it. 508 00:36:40,115 --> 00:36:44,115 And it's a sad sight, but that was the end of our race. 509 00:36:44,119 --> 00:36:47,459 The third car, which Phil hill and Bruce mclaren are sharing, 510 00:36:47,456 --> 00:36:49,326 it's the fastest car on the field. 511 00:36:51,168 --> 00:36:54,628 During the eleventh hour of the race, troubles brew for Ford. 512 00:36:54,630 --> 00:36:57,170 Richie ginther's gt40 is retired. 513 00:36:57,174 --> 00:37:01,724 Thirteen hours into the race, Phil hill's gt40 goes also. 514 00:37:01,720 --> 00:37:04,060 The cars really weren't ready to run 24 hours. 515 00:37:04,056 --> 00:37:06,806 But they showed right away, they were faster than the ferraris, 516 00:37:06,809 --> 00:37:10,269 and if they could develop the durability, they were going to be players. 517 00:37:10,270 --> 00:37:15,030 So once again, Ferrari wins le mans in 1964, 1st, 2nd and 3rd. 518 00:37:16,819 --> 00:37:20,319 With none of the gt40s getting anywhere near a finish line, 519 00:37:20,322 --> 00:37:24,662 Henry Ford ii is not happy. They need to make changes. 520 00:37:24,660 --> 00:37:27,620 Ford needed a guy who knew something about the 24 hours of le mans. 521 00:37:27,621 --> 00:37:30,671 Maybe a driver who had beaten Ferrari before. 522 00:37:30,666 --> 00:37:34,796 And they found the guy. It was said of him, he could charm the leaves off a tree. 523 00:37:36,714 --> 00:37:39,224 Got my driver's license at 14 years old, 524 00:37:39,216 --> 00:37:42,176 and the first thing I do is take my dad's '34 dodge out and 525 00:37:42,177 --> 00:37:47,057 get caught by the cops for driving 85 mph. 526 00:37:47,057 --> 00:37:51,557 Carroll Shelby started road racing at its very infancy 527 00:37:51,562 --> 00:37:56,772 up in Watkins Glen, in some of he very first races ever run in our country after the war. 528 00:37:56,775 --> 00:38:01,895 And he won everything, and he wore his bib overalls and he was a showman. 529 00:38:01,905 --> 00:38:06,325 The rivalry between Enzo Ferrari and Shelby started way back in the late 1950s, 530 00:38:06,326 --> 00:38:11,116 when Shelby was a driver. Ferrari wanted to hire Shelby, and Shelby refused him. 531 00:38:11,123 --> 00:38:13,793 I decided to stay with Aston Martin 532 00:38:13,792 --> 00:38:17,002 because of the internal politics of Ferrari. 533 00:38:25,471 --> 00:38:28,681 Now the winner pulls in to be submerged between a seething mass. 534 00:38:28,682 --> 00:38:31,732 Eager to have claimed a resounding victory. 535 00:38:31,727 --> 00:38:33,347 This is 1959. 536 00:38:33,353 --> 00:38:37,403 He and Roy salvadori had just won the 24 hours of le mans in an Aston Martin. 537 00:38:37,399 --> 00:38:40,279 He was at the peak of his racing career. 538 00:38:40,277 --> 00:38:44,407 He wins that, and he's dying. 539 00:38:44,406 --> 00:38:48,236 And it wasn't even a half-hour before the race, he came up and said 540 00:38:48,243 --> 00:38:51,203 his heart was going. He said, "i don't think I can run." 541 00:38:51,205 --> 00:38:53,745 I knew that i had hereditary problems. 542 00:38:53,749 --> 00:38:58,799 And my father died at 46 years old with it, so 543 00:38:58,796 --> 00:39:02,546 I figured there was nothing that could be done. 544 00:39:02,549 --> 00:39:08,679 He drove with a Nitroglycerin pill under his tongue to keep the thing down. 545 00:39:08,680 --> 00:39:11,600 We won the 24 hour race and it was the luckiest break 546 00:39:11,600 --> 00:39:13,890 up to that time did it ever happen to me because 547 00:39:13,894 --> 00:39:17,444 it opened the door for a lot of opportunities for me down the road. 548 00:39:19,733 --> 00:39:22,533 Carroll didn't know for sure what he was going to do in his life but 549 00:39:22,528 --> 00:39:26,568 one of the things he could do, is he wanted to build his own sports car. 550 00:39:26,573 --> 00:39:29,533 All this time i had been planning to try to build 551 00:39:29,535 --> 00:39:34,325 a car that utilized the American v8s. 552 00:39:34,331 --> 00:39:37,791 So Pete Brock left general motors and he went to carroll Shelby. 553 00:39:37,793 --> 00:39:41,963 You got to realize, we're a very small group. Like 8 guys total. 554 00:39:41,964 --> 00:39:46,764 We had hot-rudders from Japan, France, Italy, 555 00:39:46,760 --> 00:39:50,390 Switzerland, england, New Zealand, Australia, 556 00:39:50,389 --> 00:39:54,479 and all these guys worked together amazingly well. 557 00:39:54,476 --> 00:39:59,016 It was a great shop to work in. It was like one big family. 558 00:39:59,022 --> 00:40:00,362 Abusing each other. 559 00:40:02,526 --> 00:40:07,276 We were a ragtag bunch of crazy guys, kind of out of control. 560 00:40:07,281 --> 00:40:09,451 There's always lots of pranks going on, you know. 561 00:40:09,449 --> 00:40:10,869 Cherry bombs and all that kind of stuff. 562 00:40:10,868 --> 00:40:13,658 But basically, everyone got along well together. 563 00:40:13,662 --> 00:40:15,872 Shelby was really in the right place at the right time. 564 00:40:15,873 --> 00:40:20,253 He had all these young people, these hot-rodders who knew how to make cars go fast, 565 00:40:20,252 --> 00:40:24,512 who knew how to fabricate. And he had Phil Remington, who's this technical genius. 566 00:40:24,506 --> 00:40:27,546 Sometimes he goes by the title of chief engineer, 567 00:40:27,551 --> 00:40:30,721 sometimes general manager of racing. 568 00:40:30,721 --> 00:40:34,351 Remington is one of the few figures in racing who has become a legend 569 00:40:34,349 --> 00:40:36,519 who is not a racecar driver or constructor. 570 00:40:36,518 --> 00:40:38,768 Phil Remington was pretty much responsible for all 571 00:40:38,770 --> 00:40:41,730 of our successes in racing over there. 572 00:40:41,732 --> 00:40:45,572 Phil Remington is like the unsung hero of all 1960s racing. 573 00:40:45,569 --> 00:40:48,989 He was the genius. He could fix anything. He could fabricate anything. 574 00:40:48,989 --> 00:40:52,029 And he told the kids in Shelby's shop what to do. 575 00:40:52,034 --> 00:40:54,664 All of that together, you had an amazing company. 576 00:40:57,748 --> 00:41:01,628 Corvettes were the prominent car in racing at that point. 577 00:41:01,627 --> 00:41:04,837 And Shelby, yeah, he definitely wanted to beat the corvettes. There's no doubt about it. 578 00:41:04,838 --> 00:41:08,838 He knew if he wanted to make a name for himself as a car manufacturer, 579 00:41:08,842 --> 00:41:11,302 he had to build a corvette killer. 580 00:41:11,303 --> 00:41:15,063 He was able to get an introduction to go to Detroit. 581 00:41:15,057 --> 00:41:20,727 And meet Lee iacocca and try to sell him on the idea of an American sports car. 582 00:41:20,729 --> 00:41:24,979 We had the capability of mass producing reliable engines, 583 00:41:24,983 --> 00:41:26,783 and that's what he needed. 584 00:41:26,777 --> 00:41:29,897 They'd given him about ten minutes to give his elevator talk 585 00:41:29,905 --> 00:41:32,065 on what he was going to do. 586 00:41:32,074 --> 00:41:36,584 And he was still talking as they pushed him out the door. Finally, iacocca said 587 00:41:36,578 --> 00:41:40,498 just get that guy outta here. Give him a couple engines and some money. 588 00:41:40,499 --> 00:41:42,459 And let's see what he can do. 589 00:41:42,459 --> 00:41:45,749 Carroll went over to the ac car company, in england. 590 00:41:45,754 --> 00:41:49,764 And said Ford motor company is behind me and we're gonna build this big corporation, 591 00:41:49,758 --> 00:41:51,588 build all these sports cars. 592 00:41:51,593 --> 00:41:55,053 And would you guys supply us a couple chassis for nothing? 593 00:41:55,055 --> 00:41:58,385 Between whip-sawing both of them, uh... 594 00:41:58,392 --> 00:42:03,402 I wound up with a chassis and four or five engines from Ford. 595 00:42:03,397 --> 00:42:05,517 So they built the chassis. 596 00:42:05,524 --> 00:42:09,574 We put the engines in them and the first cobra was put together. 597 00:42:15,867 --> 00:42:19,697 When we had the first head-to-head competition at riverside, 598 00:42:19,705 --> 00:42:24,035 obviously all the top west-coast corvette drivers were there. 599 00:42:24,042 --> 00:42:29,422 It took care of the corvette pretty handedly and people at Ford noticed that. 600 00:42:29,423 --> 00:42:32,553 In 1963, we won the driver's championship, 601 00:42:32,551 --> 00:42:37,721 the manufacturer's championship, and of course, the usrc championship. 602 00:42:37,723 --> 00:42:40,063 It was a recognition that carroll, 603 00:42:40,058 --> 00:42:42,768 along with Ford, had found something special. 604 00:42:42,769 --> 00:42:46,519 We had our first true competitor in the racing car business in a while. 605 00:42:46,523 --> 00:42:48,863 No matter how good it was for short track racing 606 00:42:48,859 --> 00:42:51,779 it was not going to be a suitable car for Europe 607 00:42:51,778 --> 00:42:55,528 because it simply didn't have the top speed. 608 00:42:55,532 --> 00:42:58,162 Everybody knew that they just stopped dead around 150 mph. 609 00:42:58,160 --> 00:43:02,040 They were just like running this barn door through the air. 610 00:43:02,039 --> 00:43:05,459 I said to carroll, we can design a completely new body 611 00:43:05,459 --> 00:43:09,589 for the existing cobra chassis and i think that we can make them go faster. 612 00:43:09,588 --> 00:43:13,838 But I said it may not look like anything you've ever seen before. 613 00:43:13,842 --> 00:43:17,642 And he said, "ah hell, I don't care what it looks like, is it gonna go fast?" 614 00:43:17,637 --> 00:43:20,427 And I said I believe it will. 615 00:43:20,432 --> 00:43:24,232 There wasn't any time to do this. We had a 90 day window 616 00:43:24,227 --> 00:43:28,557 to build this car from the first sketch to the completed running car. 617 00:43:28,565 --> 00:43:31,475 To get it ready for Daytona. 618 00:43:31,485 --> 00:43:35,565 If you wanted to make a change on a car, you would just make the changes. 619 00:43:35,572 --> 00:43:39,872 So you could evolve a race car much, much quicker than any factory could do it. 620 00:43:42,496 --> 00:43:46,576 We got the car done and took it out to riverside. 621 00:43:46,583 --> 00:43:50,093 Right out of the box, the car was three and half seconds faster 622 00:43:50,087 --> 00:43:51,837 than anything we'd ever run. 623 00:43:51,838 --> 00:43:54,878 Shelby named the car for the race he was preparing it for. 624 00:43:54,883 --> 00:43:56,433 The Daytona continental. 625 00:43:56,426 --> 00:43:59,926 So since that day, it's always been known as the cobra Daytona. 626 00:44:02,182 --> 00:44:04,982 So our next race, of course, was le mans. 627 00:44:04,976 --> 00:44:08,556 And we've got two daytonas in the gt class. 628 00:44:08,563 --> 00:44:11,153 In 4th place overall, and leading the gt division, 629 00:44:11,149 --> 00:44:14,779 the cobra driven by Dan gurney and Bob bondurant. 630 00:44:14,778 --> 00:44:17,738 They're competing against one of the lead ferraris. 631 00:44:17,739 --> 00:44:19,909 And they run those guys into the ground. 632 00:44:19,908 --> 00:44:24,038 In 1964, winning le mans in the gt class is huge for Shelby 633 00:44:24,037 --> 00:44:25,617 and for the Daytona coupe. 634 00:44:25,622 --> 00:44:29,172 It was absolutely amazing a group of guys from venice California 635 00:44:29,167 --> 00:44:32,957 could come down there and beat all those high end manufacturers. 636 00:44:32,963 --> 00:44:36,053 We didn't win. The cars didn't finish. 637 00:44:36,049 --> 00:44:38,589 Henry Ford ii is not pleased. 638 00:44:38,593 --> 00:44:41,853 He wanted somebody who demonstrated that ability to win. 639 00:44:41,847 --> 00:44:44,597 Carroll Shelby had won le mans as a driver. 640 00:44:44,599 --> 00:44:48,139 Had won le mans as a manufacturer with the Daytona coupe. 641 00:44:48,145 --> 00:44:51,605 And it was after '64 that he brought in carroll Shelby 642 00:44:51,606 --> 00:44:54,606 to help develop the cars. 643 00:44:54,609 --> 00:44:57,069 Here's something else that we're excited about: 644 00:44:57,070 --> 00:45:01,570 This new Ford gt. It was designed and built by Ford engineers 645 00:45:01,575 --> 00:45:04,825 as kind of a laboratory on wheels to test new ideas 646 00:45:04,828 --> 00:45:07,908 and prove Ford's capabilities in open competition. 647 00:45:07,914 --> 00:45:12,134 We've been given the job of testing this new car and racing internationally. 648 00:45:12,127 --> 00:45:16,127 The biggest concern for them was endurance. 649 00:45:16,131 --> 00:45:23,641 These 12 hour, 24 hour races are demanding beyond reason. 650 00:45:23,638 --> 00:45:27,018 Carroll Shelby knew the task before them. 651 00:45:30,312 --> 00:45:35,192 I can remember when the two gt40s actually came into our shop, 652 00:45:35,192 --> 00:45:37,032 they still had wire wheels on them 653 00:45:37,027 --> 00:45:42,617 and were overheating, so Phil went to work on that. 654 00:45:42,616 --> 00:45:47,746 Phil Remington is the best mechanic I've ever seen in my life. 655 00:45:47,746 --> 00:45:53,036 Rem was like a fireman looking for a fire. 656 00:45:53,043 --> 00:45:57,673 Very quick on coming up with solutions. 657 00:45:57,672 --> 00:46:02,012 A lot of the sub-systems, breaking sub-systems, were redesigned. 658 00:46:02,010 --> 00:46:05,970 They changed the suspension geometry, they changed the engine, 659 00:46:05,972 --> 00:46:09,812 they did everything they could in the short amount of time they had before Daytona. 660 00:46:14,022 --> 00:46:16,612 Ken miles was the test driver. Really. 661 00:46:16,608 --> 00:46:20,068 He basically tested and developed most all the cars. 662 00:46:20,070 --> 00:46:25,120 He was an engineer prior to going to Shelby and prior to opening his own business. 663 00:46:25,116 --> 00:46:28,036 Ken miles drove it first, he didn't like it at all. 664 00:46:30,413 --> 00:46:35,043 And I hopped in and I drove it. It didn't handle great. 665 00:46:35,043 --> 00:46:40,013 So I brought it back. Told Remington what it was doing. 666 00:46:40,006 --> 00:46:44,716 So he adjusted the right heights and the suspension, 667 00:46:44,719 --> 00:46:48,099 changed the shocks on it, and stiffened it up. 668 00:46:48,098 --> 00:46:53,898 Each time that he worked on it, it got better and better and better. 669 00:47:04,155 --> 00:47:08,985 43 cars, 29 from Europe and 14 from America, 670 00:47:08,994 --> 00:47:12,874 will start the two thousand kilometer Daytona continental. 671 00:47:14,207 --> 00:47:18,207 So the gt40s show up at Daytona in 1965. 672 00:47:18,211 --> 00:47:22,881 Shelby's had less than two months to turn these cars into winners. 673 00:47:22,882 --> 00:47:24,972 The race is on. 674 00:47:24,968 --> 00:47:28,048 In the beginning of the race, Bob bondurant in a gt40 675 00:47:28,054 --> 00:47:30,934 flies by surtees in a Ferrari. 676 00:47:30,932 --> 00:47:34,732 By the time we got to turn 2, I was going 200 mph. 677 00:47:34,728 --> 00:47:38,018 And I pulled surtees 18 car lengths. 678 00:47:39,733 --> 00:47:44,323 The car worked great. I was like, yes, we fixed it and it worked. 679 00:47:48,074 --> 00:47:51,244 With all the changes that Remington made and Ken made, 680 00:47:51,244 --> 00:47:52,374 and even carroll Smith... 681 00:47:52,370 --> 00:47:54,710 They got the car moving very quickly. 682 00:47:57,792 --> 00:47:59,252 Trouble on the third turn. 683 00:47:59,252 --> 00:48:01,882 Rodriguez is slowing to a stop on the course. 684 00:48:01,880 --> 00:48:06,340 The Ferrari's European tires blew, beating the rear end and battery to pieces. 685 00:48:08,094 --> 00:48:11,354 "I ." 11.'1.Y 686 00:48:12,891 --> 00:48:15,391 the last lap. 687 00:48:15,393 --> 00:48:21,073 The Americans have won. They've overthrown the Ferrari. 688 00:48:21,066 --> 00:48:23,726 This was a magnificent win for Shelby. 689 00:48:23,735 --> 00:48:28,025 And you could say this victory, maybe even more than his le mans win in 1959 690 00:48:28,031 --> 00:48:31,871 as a driver, this is the win that first really put him on the map. 691 00:48:33,787 --> 00:48:36,537 The next race for the factory team was a sebring. 692 00:48:39,793 --> 00:48:42,133 Ferrari had pulled out of sebring in protest. 693 00:48:42,128 --> 00:48:43,878 Even though Ferrari withdrew, 694 00:48:43,880 --> 00:48:46,880 this would turn out to be a great test for Shelby and the new Ford. 695 00:48:50,512 --> 00:48:52,892 And then the rains came. 696 00:48:52,889 --> 00:48:56,179 It's the worst deluge ever recorded at sebring. 697 00:48:56,184 --> 00:48:58,394 You take a tire off to change it, 698 00:48:58,395 --> 00:49:01,225 and if you didn't grab it, it literally would float away. 699 00:49:01,231 --> 00:49:03,821 Porsche and Ford began to close in 700 00:49:03,817 --> 00:49:06,237 on the chaparral, cutting the lead in half. 701 00:49:06,236 --> 00:49:12,066 Lvai 1“ ilk u 41¢ I 1.: . U', 702 00:49:12,075 --> 00:49:18,035 the no.11 Ford gt is first in the gran touring prototype class. 703 00:49:18,039 --> 00:49:21,289 If we're successful at Daytona and we're successful at sebring... 704 00:49:24,087 --> 00:49:27,417 By the time Ford is getting its cars ready to ship to France, 705 00:49:27,424 --> 00:49:30,514 suddenly, people are starting to describe Ferrari as an underdog. 706 00:49:30,510 --> 00:49:34,510 Ford is expected to keep pace in this race, and maybe win. 707 00:49:38,268 --> 00:49:40,848 This is the year of Ford's great challenge. 708 00:49:40,854 --> 00:49:44,154 An American invasion on the supremacy of the Italian giants. 709 00:49:44,149 --> 00:49:48,399 Ford was racing four of the 289 Ford gt s 710 00:49:48,403 --> 00:49:51,533 and two 487 mark iis. 711 00:49:51,531 --> 00:49:53,621 The pre-race drama had centered 712 00:49:53,616 --> 00:49:55,906 on the strongest ever challenge from America. 713 00:49:55,910 --> 00:49:58,460 Their declared intention, to beat Ferrari. 714 00:50:00,248 --> 00:50:04,378 In 1965, it was starting to get really serious. 715 00:50:04,377 --> 00:50:09,087 My car worked fantastic. I was third fastest qualifier. 716 00:50:09,090 --> 00:50:11,930 Ford had really built some good engines. 717 00:50:11,926 --> 00:50:17,056 And somebody at Ford had decided to rebuild them just before le mans. 718 00:50:17,056 --> 00:50:22,226 The night before, Ford said change all the engines. 719 00:50:23,646 --> 00:50:27,266 When Ford debuted in 1964, there was a huge audience. 720 00:50:27,275 --> 00:50:29,985 In 1965, there was an even bigger audience. 721 00:50:29,986 --> 00:50:34,446 For the first time at le mans, an American car is actually favored to win. 722 00:50:34,449 --> 00:50:38,199 C g» '1. ', 1: L.' 723 00:50:38,203 --> 00:50:41,123 Chris am0n's first away in the Ford 7-liter, 724 00:50:41,122 --> 00:50:44,132 followed by Bob bondurant, Bruce mclaren, and surtees. 725 00:50:53,551 --> 00:50:58,011 Iorllflhln ll I hominid-III. 726 00:50:58,014 --> 00:51:00,644 And the leading Ford sets a blistering pace. 727 00:51:00,642 --> 00:51:05,232 “*11,1131. U '1. .'A 728 00:51:05,230 --> 00:51:08,230 and Christ amon in the second 427, 729 00:51:08,233 --> 00:51:12,653 they lead at the start and by time they're at the end of the mulsanne straight 730 00:51:12,654 --> 00:51:14,404 the ferraris aren't even in sight. 731 00:51:14,405 --> 00:51:18,325 We got a great start, and I knew i had a great chance to win. 732 00:51:22,038 --> 00:51:25,078 And now the mclaren mile sport is having gearbox trouble. 733 00:51:25,083 --> 00:51:27,883 Already the Ferrari grip on the race tightens. 734 00:51:27,877 --> 00:51:31,507 The le mans racein 1965 was an absolute barserker because, 735 00:51:31,506 --> 00:51:33,666 the cars were quick, the cars were running quick, but 736 00:51:33,675 --> 00:51:37,925 we had all kinds of engine problems and vibrations. 737 00:51:37,929 --> 00:51:40,599 What happened was, they got some new head bolts 738 00:51:40,598 --> 00:51:43,518 and they didn't check them out, and all the head bolts stretched. 739 00:51:45,478 --> 00:51:47,518 One thing about the Ferrari car 740 00:51:47,522 --> 00:51:51,232 was that you were unlikely to break it mechanically. 741 00:51:51,234 --> 00:51:55,744 For all that having a 7-liter engine against a 4-liter engine 742 00:51:55,738 --> 00:52:01,988 sounds one-sided, the ferraris were so much more sophisticated that 743 00:52:01,995 --> 00:52:04,615 they weren't a long way behind on horsepower. 744 00:52:04,622 --> 00:52:10,422 And they were light so they could make the car work better. 745 00:52:14,090 --> 00:52:16,550 By midnight, with the race only one-third through, 746 00:52:16,551 --> 00:52:20,101 the Ford challenge had been shattered by Ferrari. 747 00:52:20,096 --> 00:52:21,886 All the cars broke. 748 00:52:21,889 --> 00:52:26,139 Ford made the decision to tell Shelby to take them all 749 00:52:26,144 --> 00:52:30,234 out and put in Ford engines. It was a disaster. 750 00:52:30,231 --> 00:52:33,731 If I didn't have to change that engine, I would have won. 751 00:52:33,735 --> 00:52:37,105 Again, the fords broke. 752 00:52:37,113 --> 00:52:42,333 They made simple engineering mistakes, and Ferrari didn't. 753 00:52:42,327 --> 00:52:47,037 Only one Ferrari prototype finished the race, 754 00:52:47,040 --> 00:52:48,710 but that was enough to win it. 755 00:52:48,708 --> 00:52:55,378 And Ferrari also won the gt class, and they finished 1-2-3 overall. 756 00:52:55,381 --> 00:52:59,131 The press called it "murder: Italian style." 757 00:52:59,135 --> 00:53:02,215 It was the second year for my grandfather of utter disappointment. 758 00:53:02,221 --> 00:53:06,521 And I'm sure he probably questioned 759 00:53:06,517 --> 00:53:08,727 in his mind, whether this was all worth it. 760 00:53:08,728 --> 00:53:15,648 Ford, with millions and millions of dollars going down the tube again, 761 00:53:15,652 --> 00:53:17,612 start to look bad. 762 00:53:17,612 --> 00:53:21,322 This was humiliating. Henry Ford ii was pissed. 763 00:53:21,324 --> 00:53:24,124 He made it very clear that we were not going to fail again. 764 00:53:24,118 --> 00:53:28,248 Henry Ford ii was not the president or the chairman of Ford motor company, 765 00:53:28,247 --> 00:53:31,537 he was the emperor. And he had a way of making 766 00:53:31,542 --> 00:53:35,132 statements that if you don't win, you're out of here. 767 00:53:35,129 --> 00:53:37,799 I was with don frey and Leo beebe when he called us in. 768 00:53:37,799 --> 00:53:41,219 And he had name tags made up in September of 1965 769 00:53:41,219 --> 00:53:44,719 September says Ford wins le man in '66. 770 00:53:44,722 --> 00:53:46,682 "You want a job next June, don't you?" 771 00:53:48,851 --> 00:53:52,061 Ford decided to expand its operation 772 00:53:52,063 --> 00:53:55,573 so instead of just having Shelby American, they also hired holman & moody, 773 00:53:55,566 --> 00:53:59,186 who is already running their stock-car operation, and Alan mann racing, 774 00:53:59,195 --> 00:54:04,405 which had just won the gt championship with the cobra Daytona coupe. 775 00:54:04,409 --> 00:54:07,409 When I came back, a lot of the crew were missing. They were gone. 776 00:54:07,412 --> 00:54:11,082 They didn't need as many people to run the gt40s because 777 00:54:11,082 --> 00:54:13,332 they already had those people set. 778 00:54:13,334 --> 00:54:17,554 So anyone working on the Daytona coupe kind of got their walking papers. 779 00:54:17,547 --> 00:54:20,297 At the end of the '65 season, I got back. 780 00:54:20,299 --> 00:54:25,099 There's a total stranger in my office. They had come in. Taken over. 781 00:54:25,096 --> 00:54:29,636 Shelby didn't fire really me, but it was obvious they didn't need me around there anymore. 782 00:54:33,312 --> 00:54:35,772 Enzo Ferrari did not tolerate mistakes. 783 00:54:35,773 --> 00:54:37,403 Especially when it came to engineering. 784 00:54:37,400 --> 00:54:40,820 And if engineers did make a mistake, he made sure they knew about it. 785 00:54:52,790 --> 00:54:57,460 Every component broken displayed in that room 786 00:54:57,462 --> 00:55:02,592 was representing a race that had been lost. 787 00:55:02,592 --> 00:55:07,512 He said they are responsible people. Every time we are here for a meeting, 788 00:55:07,513 --> 00:55:11,393 they have the possibility to see the parts which are broken 789 00:55:11,392 --> 00:55:13,642 so they would not repeat the same mistake. 790 00:55:16,147 --> 00:55:20,277 In '66, it was really important for Ford to win, so the pressure was on. 791 00:55:20,276 --> 00:55:24,396 It was obvious that we were going to have to retire the little engine and 792 00:55:24,405 --> 00:55:30,195 go to the big engine. Even with modifications in favor of fixing 793 00:55:30,203 --> 00:55:34,503 the weaknesses of the 289, it just didn't get the job done. 794 00:55:34,499 --> 00:55:40,499 '65 was a disaster, but if we had run second or third, 795 00:55:40,505 --> 00:55:43,755 or possibly even lucked out and won the race, we might never have 796 00:55:43,758 --> 00:55:46,888 gotten the funding to go like we did in '66 and '67. 797 00:55:46,886 --> 00:55:50,466 It was the beginning of what they knew would be the 798 00:55:50,473 --> 00:55:53,853 direction to go with the big block cars. 799 00:55:53,851 --> 00:55:57,901 As a driver, of course, you always go for the power. 800 00:55:57,897 --> 00:56:02,317 The 289 at the very beginning obviously left a lot to be desired. 801 00:56:02,318 --> 00:56:05,528 There just was not the power that the driver is looking for. 802 00:56:05,530 --> 00:56:07,860 Ultimately, of course, they came out with the mark ii. 803 00:56:07,865 --> 00:56:11,615 They said, right, we got to get the job done, so if we can't do it by cunning and 804 00:56:11,619 --> 00:56:14,499 daring, we'll do it by brute just force with this bloody great engine. 805 00:56:14,497 --> 00:56:17,457 We'll blow them away. 806 00:56:17,458 --> 00:56:21,838 The 427 in that application was a brute. 807 00:56:24,340 --> 00:56:31,220 It wasn't like sending a boy to do a man's job. I mean, it fit the use. 808 00:56:31,222 --> 00:56:33,222 When they went to the bigger engines, 809 00:56:33,224 --> 00:56:36,734 all of a sudden all the drivers were smiling. 810 00:56:36,727 --> 00:56:39,267 And that's when we started seeing some real speeds. 811 00:56:39,272 --> 00:56:43,022 The weight of the car needed to have the torque and so-forth 812 00:56:43,025 --> 00:56:47,735 to be able to compete with what we were up against. You know, the ferraris. 813 00:56:50,908 --> 00:56:55,408 Here in test cell 17b, without car or driver 814 00:56:55,413 --> 00:56:58,623 the 1966 le mans race is already run 815 00:56:58,624 --> 00:57:01,884 six months before it actually happens. 816 00:57:01,878 --> 00:57:07,048 I do remember going to a Ford engine test stand. 817 00:57:07,049 --> 00:57:14,469 And it had a le mans system in it, so it had robots that shifted the gears. 818 00:57:14,473 --> 00:57:16,393 It'd go through all four gears. 819 00:57:16,392 --> 00:57:21,772 And had a 427 engine. And you could tell when it was on the mulsanne straight 820 00:57:21,772 --> 00:57:26,902 and when it slowed down for the right hand turn at the end. 821 00:57:26,903 --> 00:57:34,703 So they could run that car... I think the longest they ran was 40 hours or something. 822 00:57:34,702 --> 00:57:38,792 With the mark ii gt40 and the fe 427 engine... 823 00:57:38,789 --> 00:57:44,379 It was so understated and under tuned, that it just goes. 824 00:57:44,378 --> 00:57:50,548 At 64 hundred, to be able to run 220 mph, and do it all day long 825 00:57:50,551 --> 00:57:54,721 not even straining itself. And the drivers like that because 826 00:57:54,722 --> 00:57:59,942 it felt solid. It felt like the engine was going to be there for the entire event. 827 00:58:01,604 --> 00:58:05,574 Rem was very much involved with the mark ii 828 00:58:05,566 --> 00:58:07,936 along with Ken miles. 829 00:58:07,944 --> 00:58:11,744 As a test driver, I also got to test some of the cars 830 00:58:11,739 --> 00:58:14,989 on behalf of carroll Shelby too. 831 00:58:14,992 --> 00:58:19,082 We knew we had some brake issues, especially at le mans 832 00:58:19,080 --> 00:58:24,330 because of the mulsanne straight. So you got 3.2 miles 833 00:58:24,335 --> 00:58:29,375 and the brakes would go from 1,200 degrees to 0 every single lap. 834 00:58:29,382 --> 00:58:32,932 And at that point I don't think they had the material, 835 00:58:32,927 --> 00:58:36,717 that could withstand, you know, that repeated cycle. 836 00:58:36,722 --> 00:58:39,812 Phil Remington figured out how to make a quick change brake setup. 837 00:58:39,809 --> 00:58:44,359 They could change the disk, the calipers and the whole braking system... 838 00:58:47,733 --> 00:58:50,903 When somebody like Dan gurney has to get in that car, I mean, they had to 839 00:58:50,903 --> 00:58:55,783 build a bubble into the roof-line to be able to fit his helmet in the car. 840 00:58:55,783 --> 00:58:59,913 I was 6 foot 4 so when you get into that car, 841 00:58:59,912 --> 00:59:03,462 you were sitting on the actual chassis. 842 00:59:03,457 --> 00:59:07,787 The roof is hitting your helmet, so there wasn't anywhere else to go. 843 00:59:07,795 --> 00:59:11,795 So they had to go up on the roof, and that's where the bubble came in. 844 00:59:16,387 --> 00:59:20,847 Racing for the flag in the 24 hour Daytona continental. 845 00:59:20,850 --> 00:59:23,560 Ford had five gt40 mark h's in the running, 846 00:59:23,561 --> 00:59:25,771 led by Ken miles and Lloyd Ruby, 847 00:59:25,771 --> 00:59:27,611 and Dan gurney and Jerry Grant. 848 00:59:30,693 --> 00:59:33,903 Miles takes the lead as they thunder towards the second go around 849 00:59:33,904 --> 00:59:37,664 the infield, pushing the last Ferrari threat. 850 00:59:37,658 --> 00:59:40,078 Miles and gurney basically led the whole race. 851 00:59:40,077 --> 00:59:43,577 And it was a like a start-to-finish race. It was incredible. 852 00:59:43,581 --> 00:59:46,621 It was just a relatively easy race. 853 00:59:46,625 --> 00:59:50,495 For the first time, Ford wins 1-2-3 at Daytona. 854 00:59:52,798 --> 00:59:55,838 This is the 12 hours of sebring. And during the next 855 00:59:55,843 --> 00:59:58,053 twelve hours, we're going to to have a lot of questions answered that 856 00:59:58,054 --> 01:00:00,104 are in the minds of racing fans everywhere. 857 01:00:00,097 --> 01:00:03,097 Can the fords win two in a row, such as they did with the continental, 858 01:00:03,100 --> 01:00:06,560 the long road race. This being the second one on the road to le mans. 859 01:00:06,562 --> 01:00:12,902 And can Ferrari come back after a rather dismal start at the beginning of this year. 860 01:00:12,902 --> 01:00:14,902 Can you tell us who your rabbits will be 861 01:00:14,904 --> 01:00:16,244 and who your steady boys will be? 862 01:00:16,238 --> 01:00:18,738 Well I think we'll have Dan gurney out front. 863 01:00:18,741 --> 01:00:20,411 We were going to be the rabbit. 864 01:00:20,409 --> 01:00:24,539 To be the rabbit is someone that obviously is 865 01:00:24,538 --> 01:00:27,788 quite quick. You want to entice the competition 866 01:00:27,792 --> 01:00:31,092 to follow that and try to destroy the equipment. 867 01:00:31,087 --> 01:00:35,837 If you're designated as rabbit, that means you're expendable. 868 01:00:35,841 --> 01:00:38,841 That's part of team play strategy. 869 01:00:38,844 --> 01:00:42,644 Dan gurney is going like a rocket. It's neck and neck now. 870 01:00:42,640 --> 01:00:46,600 Parkes. Miles. Gurney. Close enough to cover with a blanket 871 01:00:46,602 --> 01:00:49,272 as they roar through the left turn. 872 01:00:49,271 --> 01:00:53,651 Ken was running second. I think at that point, Dan had lapped Ken. 873 01:00:53,651 --> 01:00:57,241 And Ken would come in to the pits and i say, Ken you got to get your finger out 874 01:00:57,238 --> 01:00:59,908 and I say, gurney's gonna win this race if you don't watch it. 875 01:00:59,907 --> 01:01:04,197 "I'm not that worried," he says, "cuz Dan is pulling me out of every turn." 876 01:01:04,203 --> 01:01:06,873 "He's definitely over-revving that vehicle." 877 01:01:06,872 --> 01:01:10,252 I said, well, it's not that much further to go, Ken. 878 01:01:10,251 --> 01:01:15,011 Night full on, it's: Ford-Ford-Ferrari-Ford-Ford. 879 01:01:16,549 --> 01:01:18,169 Report of another accident. 880 01:01:18,175 --> 01:01:23,215 Third place Rodriguez-andretti's Ferrari is in and damaged. 881 01:01:23,222 --> 01:01:26,982 Fire! Quickly out. But that should do it for the 882 01:01:26,976 --> 01:01:31,096 only Ferrari capable of challenging the Ford. 883 01:01:31,105 --> 01:01:35,225 And I get the car back in the pits and then the engine caught fire, 884 01:01:35,234 --> 01:01:39,074 you know, so we were out of that race. 885 01:01:39,071 --> 01:01:43,161 Here's Ruby bringing the Ford prototype in to hand over to teammate miles. 886 01:01:43,159 --> 01:01:46,739 They've driven a great race following their 24 hour win at Daytona. 887 01:01:46,745 --> 01:01:49,865 But it looks like second at sebring. 888 01:01:49,874 --> 01:01:54,044 It's 10 o'clock. The checkered flag is out and no Dan gurney. 889 01:01:54,044 --> 01:01:58,214 For Pete's sake! Here he is and he's pushing it! He could be disqualified for that! 890 01:01:58,215 --> 01:02:02,835 It looked like Dan was going to win until the last lap and it puked. 891 01:02:02,845 --> 01:02:05,965 Gurney is actually pushing car no. 2 in. 892 01:02:05,973 --> 01:02:09,603 And that means Ken miles has crossed the finish line first. 893 01:02:09,602 --> 01:02:11,102 Ken was a lap down at that point. 894 01:02:11,103 --> 01:02:16,403 He had to circle sebring one more time before he actually won the race. 895 01:02:16,400 --> 01:02:19,070 If Dan hadn't had touched the car, just left it where it was, he 896 01:02:19,069 --> 01:02:20,899 would have finished second. Because he started to 897 01:02:20,905 --> 01:02:24,615 push it, it was all over. He got disqualified. 898 01:02:24,617 --> 01:02:26,907 And obviously elated with surprise, 899 01:02:26,911 --> 01:02:29,081 miles enjoys the victory Lane hub-bub. 900 01:02:29,079 --> 01:02:32,119 While everyone wonders what happened to gurney. 901 01:02:32,124 --> 01:02:33,674 Well, she quit. 902 01:02:33,667 --> 01:02:35,127 Engine trouble? 903 01:02:35,127 --> 01:02:36,747 I believe so. 904 01:02:36,754 --> 01:02:39,174 How long did you push it? 905 01:02:39,173 --> 01:02:42,303 Oh, probably, almost a quarter mile. 906 01:02:42,301 --> 01:02:45,301 Ken miles, are you as surprised as we are? 907 01:02:45,304 --> 01:02:47,264 I'm slightly ashamed. 908 01:02:47,264 --> 01:02:49,684 Well it was a big day for Ford, wasn't it? 909 01:02:49,683 --> 01:02:52,353 It was a good day for Ford. I'm very happy for the Ford motor company. 910 01:02:52,353 --> 01:02:57,773 And I'm very sorry indeed for Dan. He ran a beautiful race, and I'm sorry 911 01:02:57,775 --> 01:02:59,315 something happened at the last minute. 912 01:02:59,318 --> 01:03:00,988 How'd Lloyd go for you? 913 01:03:00,986 --> 01:03:03,066 This is your third big long distance win together, isn't it? 914 01:03:03,072 --> 01:03:04,412 I like oi' Lloyd. 915 01:03:04,406 --> 01:03:06,026 What's next for you? 916 01:03:06,033 --> 01:03:08,873 Le mans. 917 01:03:08,869 --> 01:03:12,289 Suddenly Ken miles has emerged as the driver to beat 918 01:03:12,289 --> 01:03:16,959 on the Shelby team, having won Daytona and sebring in 1966. 919 01:03:16,961 --> 01:03:20,671 Sebring is another 1-2-3 finish for the Ford gt40s. 920 01:03:20,673 --> 01:03:23,723 All that's left is le mans. 921 01:03:23,717 --> 01:03:28,387 Ford had already a couple years under her, '64 and '65, 922 01:03:28,389 --> 01:03:32,809 come '66, when the success started to be real... 923 01:03:32,810 --> 01:03:36,310 Even from a competitor's standpoint such as Ferrari, 924 01:03:36,313 --> 01:03:39,733 I was sensing, you know, these guys are not going away. 925 01:03:39,733 --> 01:03:42,943 Then they started paying some attention. 926 01:03:42,945 --> 01:03:47,235 Ford had the possibility to invest an incredible amount of money 927 01:03:47,241 --> 01:03:49,411 compared to Ferrari's capabilities. 928 01:03:49,410 --> 01:03:53,120 This was something which really did spoil 929 01:03:53,122 --> 01:03:58,342 the Ferrari idea about being capable to fight against such a giant. 930 01:04:39,251 --> 01:04:43,001 I learned that Enzo Ferrari wanted to meet me. 931 01:04:43,005 --> 01:04:45,205 So I went down and met him. 932 01:04:45,215 --> 01:04:48,335 And he said, "would you like to run with us?" 933 01:04:48,344 --> 01:04:51,104 I said, yeah I would. 934 01:04:51,096 --> 01:04:56,056 In 1966, Bob bondurant swapped from Ford to the enemy. 935 01:04:56,060 --> 01:04:59,230 Drove for Ferrari at le mans. 936 01:04:59,229 --> 01:05:03,359 Enzo Ferrari was smart. He hired me because I was beating him all the time. 937 01:05:05,235 --> 01:05:07,355 '66 was a great year for the Ford gt40. 938 01:05:07,363 --> 01:05:10,413 We won Daytona 1-2-3, we won sebring 1-2-3. 939 01:05:10,407 --> 01:05:13,407 By time they got to le mans, i think everyone was feeling 940 01:05:13,410 --> 01:05:18,120 a lot confident than they had been in '64 and '65. 941 01:05:18,123 --> 01:05:21,883 Then you say to the boss, hey listen, we got a really good idea for you. 942 01:05:21,877 --> 01:05:24,297 Why don't you come to le mans and start the race 943 01:05:24,296 --> 01:05:26,206 and we'll see if we can't win it for you. 944 01:05:26,215 --> 01:05:28,415 I went to le mans with him in 1996. 945 01:05:28,425 --> 01:05:31,215 He had a smile on his face the minute we got on the airplane. 946 01:05:31,220 --> 01:05:36,220 I mean, he was really excited. He was going over to beat the Europeans. 947 01:05:36,225 --> 01:05:37,845 On their own turf. 948 01:05:39,186 --> 01:05:42,146 Well, we did all right the first couple of times out. 949 01:05:42,147 --> 01:05:45,107 We feel the cars were very impressive in Daytona and sebring. 950 01:05:45,109 --> 01:05:48,489 In the weeks to come, we hope to continue our string of victories. 951 01:05:48,487 --> 01:05:54,407 It seems whatever success we find, we'll also find our share of disappointments. 952 01:05:54,410 --> 01:05:57,580 The le mans test in '66. 953 01:05:57,579 --> 01:05:59,999 It was raining and drizzling. 954 01:05:59,998 --> 01:06:01,418 When it's raining. There's no point. 955 01:06:01,417 --> 01:06:04,377 You're not going to break any track records in the rain. 956 01:06:04,378 --> 01:06:08,218 We'd already figured out the cars were going to be quick in the rain with the right tires. 957 01:06:10,175 --> 01:06:13,885 Walter hangsen was driving a mark ii gt40. 958 01:06:16,265 --> 01:06:19,885 Miles, who was a brilliant rain driver, he'd already come into the pits. 959 01:06:19,893 --> 01:06:23,063 He said bring in Walter, he's taking to many chances out there. 960 01:06:23,063 --> 01:06:24,983 We don't need to go any quicker because it's raining. 961 01:06:24,982 --> 01:06:28,072 Carroll Smith tried to slow him down. 962 01:06:28,068 --> 01:06:32,198 It was like he refused to come in. He was just going 'round and 'round. 963 01:06:32,197 --> 01:06:35,447 Finally, at the end of the chute, at the one right hander 964 01:06:35,451 --> 01:06:37,621 he just went straight on. 965 01:06:37,619 --> 01:06:39,579 But you know, that's motor racing. Some of these drivers, 966 01:06:39,580 --> 01:06:44,210 when they get in that car, they give it everything they got. 967 01:06:44,209 --> 01:06:47,039 These things are unavoidable. 968 01:06:47,045 --> 01:06:51,165 He lost it. And it killed him. 969 01:06:51,175 --> 01:06:53,585 It rolled that car up in a little ball, that gt40. 970 01:06:53,594 --> 01:06:57,394 It was like it wasn't even made of steel. It just crumpled up around him. 971 01:07:05,063 --> 01:07:08,363 Now with the preliminaries over, le mans is under way. 972 01:07:15,574 --> 01:07:19,204 Ford entered eight Ford gt40 mark iis. 973 01:07:19,203 --> 01:07:22,043 Ferrari entered seven cars. 974 01:07:22,039 --> 01:07:25,629 The table is set. 1966 will be the showdown 975 01:07:25,626 --> 01:07:27,496 between Ford and Ferrari. 976 01:07:27,503 --> 01:07:30,213 Ford went to le mans with a 900 lb gorilla. 977 01:07:30,214 --> 01:07:34,974 But that said, they had a history of failing at le mans the past two years. 978 01:07:34,968 --> 01:07:37,348 And the fact they've never had a car finish at le mans. 979 01:07:37,346 --> 01:07:39,556 Even though I'd say they're the odds-on favorite, 980 01:07:39,556 --> 01:07:41,556 I'm not sure everyone was betting on them. 981 01:07:41,558 --> 01:07:46,478 We had a strategy and we thought the only way we would beat the fords 982 01:07:46,480 --> 01:07:51,400 would be if we could go along, and from the very start 983 01:07:51,401 --> 01:07:55,491 of the race, we could drive it like a grand prix. 984 01:07:55,489 --> 01:07:59,239 Because the drivers in the fords were all racers. 985 01:07:59,243 --> 01:08:01,543 And they wouldn't just hold back. 986 01:08:01,537 --> 01:08:03,157 They would have a go. 987 01:08:03,163 --> 01:08:08,003 And there might be some possibility that we might be able to break the fords. 988 01:08:08,001 --> 01:08:09,751 There's the Ferrari team. 989 01:08:09,753 --> 01:08:14,223 And car no. 20 was scheduled to be driven by John surtees of england. 990 01:08:14,216 --> 01:08:17,296 But shortly before the start of the race we found out that he wasn't going to drive 991 01:08:17,302 --> 01:08:19,102 and we asked him about it. 992 01:08:19,096 --> 01:08:22,306 Yes, unfortunately you've heard correct, I won't be driving. 993 01:08:22,307 --> 01:08:24,557 What is the reason? 994 01:08:24,560 --> 01:08:29,690 Well, I suppose it's best summed up at this stage by saying political reasons. 995 01:08:29,690 --> 01:08:33,320 When I got back for the actual race, dragoni said, 996 01:08:33,318 --> 01:08:40,238 "uh, got to change the policy because Mr. agnelli is going to be here... 997 01:08:40,242 --> 01:08:44,792 "And he'd like his nephew, scarfiotti, to start the race." 998 01:08:44,788 --> 01:08:48,248 I said this is ridiculous. That year we'd done one or two moves 999 01:08:48,250 --> 01:08:51,460 where we'd lost races. Because of pure strategy. 1000 01:08:51,461 --> 01:08:54,631 So I went back to Ferrari and said enough is enough, 1001 01:08:54,631 --> 01:08:59,391 I'm not going to be treated this way. I'm here to win races. I'm off. 1002 01:08:59,386 --> 01:09:04,176 Surtees was a victim of the internal politics. 1003 01:09:04,182 --> 01:09:08,772 And he was another guy who walked away. As did Phil hill. 1004 01:09:08,770 --> 01:09:11,650 It didn't matter how much you won. 1005 01:09:11,648 --> 01:09:14,358 For some people, 1006 01:09:14,359 --> 01:09:21,569 important people inside the team, if you weren't Italian, you weren't Ferrari. 1007 01:09:21,575 --> 01:09:24,735 For Ferrari to lose surtees right before the race, it's massive. 1008 01:09:24,745 --> 01:09:28,325 This man was a true talent. Still to this day, he's the 1009 01:09:28,332 --> 01:09:32,042 only man who's won world championships on two wheels and four. 1010 01:09:32,044 --> 01:09:34,674 So without him, Ferrari was handicapped for sure. 1011 01:09:34,671 --> 01:09:37,591 This race has been billed from the very start as a race 1012 01:09:37,591 --> 01:09:40,721 between the Ferrari's and the Ford teams. 1013 01:09:40,719 --> 01:09:44,809 There are fifty five cars lined up, ready to go. And of course 1014 01:09:44,806 --> 01:09:48,556 they are employing what is becoming famous in all parts of the world, 1015 01:09:48,560 --> 01:09:50,560 for the le mans start. 1016 01:09:50,562 --> 01:09:55,782 The famous le mans start. You know, you run across, jump in the car. 1017 01:09:55,776 --> 01:09:58,856 Even though you had safety belts, most of the drivers, 1018 01:09:58,862 --> 01:10:01,742 they just wanted to get out there. Wouldn't even buckle up. 1019 01:10:01,740 --> 01:10:05,410 The main thing was to concentrate on getting 1020 01:10:05,410 --> 01:10:07,410 the engine running and getting out of there. 1021 01:10:07,412 --> 01:10:11,502 And then you'd later on do your seatbelt. 1022 01:10:11,500 --> 01:10:13,170 If there was a seatbelt. 1023 01:10:13,168 --> 01:10:18,298 Going down the mulsanne straight, you try to 1024 01:10:18,298 --> 01:10:23,298 hold the thing. Maybe buckle up maybe not. 1025 01:10:23,303 --> 01:10:27,313 Ford actually, in '66 race, had strict orders for the drivers, 1026 01:10:27,307 --> 01:10:30,427 "i don't care if you're going to be there a half an hour. You got to buckle up." 1027 01:10:30,435 --> 01:10:35,855 Which was very prudent. But did the drivers listen? 1028 01:10:35,857 --> 01:10:37,187 Hell no. 1029 01:11:03,301 --> 01:11:05,181 Ken and gurney were the rabbits. 1030 01:11:05,178 --> 01:11:07,848 So their job was to go out and break the ferraris. 1031 01:11:07,848 --> 01:11:12,178 When the race started, Ken miles didn't get his door closed correctly. 1032 01:11:12,185 --> 01:11:14,265 So he got a terrible start. 1033 01:11:14,271 --> 01:11:16,731 And I thought, oh, this ended right from the beginning. 1034 01:11:25,157 --> 01:11:27,407 Those first 20 laps or so were just incredible 1035 01:11:27,409 --> 01:11:31,199 Ken was hauling ass. He was just so quick. 1036 01:11:31,204 --> 01:11:33,504 And finally after... A couple hours probably, 1037 01:11:33,498 --> 01:11:36,498 he was up in the second spot, behind Dan. 1038 01:11:42,340 --> 01:11:44,550 Phil, the tremendous talk here has been on the 1039 01:11:44,551 --> 01:11:46,721 pace of this race. What is your comment? 1040 01:11:46,720 --> 01:11:51,560 It's a terrific pace. I'm sure before the things over 1041 01:11:51,558 --> 01:11:53,888 we're going to see an awful lot of cars that just aren't around anymore. 1042 01:11:53,894 --> 01:11:55,944 You think there'll be a lot of them falling out? 1043 01:11:55,937 --> 01:11:57,557 I think so. 1044 01:11:57,564 --> 01:11:59,404 That's car no. 8, John Whitmore as the driver, 1045 01:11:59,399 --> 01:12:02,899 and this was quite a surprise that he made a stop so early in this race. 1046 01:12:02,903 --> 01:12:05,863 And incidentally we have the official report on that. 1047 01:12:05,864 --> 01:12:07,704 He had a broken brake line. 1048 01:12:13,747 --> 01:12:16,827 Six hours in, two of the gt40s are already retired. 1049 01:12:16,833 --> 01:12:18,633 As well as two ferraris. 1050 01:12:21,546 --> 01:12:25,216 The mark ii no. 1, being driven by Ken miles and denis hulme 1051 01:12:25,217 --> 01:12:28,717 is leading, but it has been a battle all along between 1052 01:12:28,720 --> 01:12:32,520 car no.1 and car no.3, Dan gurney and Ken miles, 1053 01:12:32,516 --> 01:12:36,686 and the Ferrari being driven by Rodriguez and ginther. 1054 01:12:40,398 --> 01:12:43,358 Dan gurney's car died about the eleventh hour. 1055 01:12:43,360 --> 01:12:46,900 With Jerry Grant, we led the race for a long time 1056 01:12:46,905 --> 01:12:48,505 then just had a failure of a head gasket. 1057 01:12:49,407 --> 01:12:50,777 It's a brutal race. 1058 01:12:52,828 --> 01:12:56,708 It's an endurance race. And it epitomized the word endurance. 1059 01:12:56,706 --> 01:12:59,536 Only two drivers drove. So you were going to split it 1060 01:12:59,543 --> 01:13:03,593 12 and 12, or somebody do 14 and somebody do 10. 1061 01:13:03,588 --> 01:13:06,838 You don't wake up and go 24 hours then go to sleep. 1062 01:13:06,842 --> 01:13:11,722 You've already been awake for 10-15 hours before that in the pits. 1063 01:13:11,721 --> 01:13:14,561 Especially at le mans, we never stop for one second. 1064 01:13:14,558 --> 01:13:17,058 I would never get any sleep, just too wound up. 1065 01:13:17,060 --> 01:13:19,480 You're about ready to drop dead. 1066 01:13:19,479 --> 01:13:21,819 Complete and utter physical exhaustion. 1067 01:13:24,067 --> 01:13:27,067 But we were still running away with the race. 1068 01:13:27,070 --> 01:13:32,320 Ken and deny were still hauling ass, doing a great job. 1069 01:13:32,325 --> 01:13:34,735 The ferraris are dropping out. 1070 01:13:34,744 --> 01:13:38,714 Bruce mclaren and Chris amon, they were running several 1071 01:13:38,707 --> 01:13:41,457 laps back but still running really strong. 1072 01:13:41,459 --> 01:13:43,589 As the race was a few hours from the finish, 1073 01:13:43,587 --> 01:13:46,627 it looked like car wasn't going to break anyway. 1074 01:13:46,631 --> 01:13:48,841 Ken was going to win the race easily. 1075 01:13:50,635 --> 01:13:54,385 Miles is now in first place and he's lapping at amazing speeds. 1076 01:13:54,389 --> 01:13:56,679 Faster than they told him he should be going. 1077 01:13:56,683 --> 01:13:59,693 Miles has won Daytona. Miles has won sebring. 1078 01:13:59,686 --> 01:14:02,856 So if Ken miles wins le mans, it'll be the triple crown. 1079 01:14:02,856 --> 01:14:05,646 No driver had won the three premiere 1080 01:14:05,650 --> 01:14:08,490 long distance endurance races of the year. 1081 01:14:08,486 --> 01:14:11,736 The word came down, presumably from my grandfather, 1082 01:14:11,740 --> 01:14:15,580 that he wanted to facilitate this 1-2-3 finish. 1083 01:14:15,577 --> 01:14:19,617 Henry Ford told carroll, he said "you gotta slow him down." 1084 01:14:19,623 --> 01:14:22,543 When they told Ken, he was very, very upset 1085 01:14:22,542 --> 01:14:25,542 he was leaning on the pit while waiting for his stint on the drive, 1086 01:14:25,545 --> 01:14:28,665 and that's when he first told me, "they want me to back off." 1087 01:14:28,673 --> 01:14:32,723 It's three laps ahead of him, how are they going to slow you down with this three laps? 1088 01:14:32,719 --> 01:14:36,059 He said, "well they want to slow me down on the back chute... 1089 01:14:36,056 --> 01:14:38,096 "longer pit stops. Things like that." 1090 01:14:38,099 --> 01:14:41,769 I said it ain't gonna happen. I'm not going to slow down on the bloody pit stops. 1091 01:14:41,770 --> 01:14:46,690 They've talked to the le mans officials. They're saying that we can do a dead heat. 1092 01:14:46,691 --> 01:14:50,401 Which still meant that Ken had to slow down to let Bruce catch up. 1093 01:14:50,403 --> 01:14:52,073 Which he did. 1094 01:15:07,796 --> 01:15:10,376 Ford won 1-2-3. 1095 01:15:10,382 --> 01:15:16,432 And Henry Ford was so happy. He beat Ferrari. 1096 01:15:16,429 --> 01:15:20,389 It was a relief for a lot of people because it was a herculean effort 1097 01:15:20,392 --> 01:15:23,522 to make this program a success. And so when it finally paid off, 1098 01:15:23,520 --> 01:15:25,730 I can't imagine how it must have felt for people who'd 1099 01:15:25,730 --> 01:15:28,730 dedicated years of their life to this program. 1100 01:15:28,733 --> 01:15:31,073 Your eyes water up. 1101 01:15:31,069 --> 01:15:33,029 There was a lot of hugging and handshaking and so on. 1102 01:15:33,029 --> 01:15:36,949 It was just that magnificent feeling. 1103 01:15:36,950 --> 01:15:40,080 I felt wonderful about us winning 1, 2 and 3. 1104 01:15:43,707 --> 01:15:48,497 Ford won the 1966 race fair and square by having 1105 01:15:48,503 --> 01:15:53,553 every base covered. They had a car for every eventuality. 1106 01:15:53,550 --> 01:15:58,600 It was a shock, of course. But that's motor racing. 1107 01:15:58,596 --> 01:16:01,136 You win one day, you lose, you know. 1108 01:16:01,141 --> 01:16:05,811 I think we were lucky, you know. We had six cars. 1109 01:16:05,812 --> 01:16:11,942 We felt really good about our chances and we came in 1-2-3. 1110 01:16:14,904 --> 01:16:18,704 When it came to the finish, it was considered a dead heat. 1111 01:16:18,700 --> 01:16:22,750 Even though in the pictures it looks like Bruce was ahead of Ken. 1112 01:16:22,746 --> 01:16:25,656 But when Ken came up the pit Lane to head from the circle 1113 01:16:25,665 --> 01:16:27,325 we thought we had won the race. 1114 01:16:29,836 --> 01:16:34,506 We get to the winner circle and they go waving him off, yelling in French. 1115 01:16:34,507 --> 01:16:40,217 Then the fia got involved and said, "well, just so you know..." 1116 01:16:40,221 --> 01:16:44,811 If there is a dead heat, across the finishing line 1117 01:16:44,809 --> 01:16:50,689 the car that started farthest back on the starting line must have covered 1118 01:16:50,690 --> 01:16:52,190 the greatest distance. 1119 01:16:52,192 --> 01:16:54,902 So no.2 becomes the winner! 1120 01:16:54,903 --> 01:16:57,913 There wasn't going to be a 1-2-3 finish. Bruce was going to win. 1121 01:17:01,201 --> 01:17:04,581 We made a horrible decision with Ken miles, 1122 01:17:04,579 --> 01:17:07,959 in saying the three cars come over exactly together. 1123 01:17:07,957 --> 01:17:11,087 It was good politically for Ford, so I couldn't argue with it. 1124 01:17:11,086 --> 01:17:16,006 Besides that, I work for Ford. And I'm not going to go against Henry Ford. 1125 01:17:18,718 --> 01:17:21,218 Ken ended up getting cheated out of it. 1126 01:17:21,221 --> 01:17:22,891 And it wasn't fair either because he would have 1127 01:17:22,889 --> 01:17:26,769 been the first driver to win those three big races. 1128 01:17:26,768 --> 01:17:28,558 And it broke his heart. 1129 01:17:30,105 --> 01:17:32,555 When they win the race, 1130 01:17:32,565 --> 01:17:34,895 he's asked, "what happens now?" 1131 01:17:34,901 --> 01:17:37,901 Henry Ford says, "well, we're going to come back next year and do it again." 1132 01:18:04,055 --> 01:18:07,555 It's a development of the p3, but it's better 1133 01:18:07,559 --> 01:18:10,229 it's just beautiful. It looks stunning. 1134 01:18:10,228 --> 01:18:14,058 It's got a new engine that's derived from their formula 1 engine. 1135 01:18:14,065 --> 01:18:15,725 And it just kicks ass. 1136 01:18:20,196 --> 01:18:25,826 At the latter part of '66, carroll Shelby, Phil Remington, 1137 01:18:25,827 --> 01:18:30,827 and the Shelby experts were making a faster, quicker mark ii-b. 1138 01:18:30,832 --> 01:18:33,792 My grandfather was determined to make sure 1139 01:18:33,793 --> 01:18:36,213 that people knew this was not some kind of fluke. 1140 01:18:36,212 --> 01:18:41,012 So development of the cars continued in '66. 1141 01:18:41,009 --> 01:18:43,589 The j-car was this prototype where they had used this kind of 1142 01:18:43,595 --> 01:18:49,675 honeycomb pattern and I don't think they knew exactly how durable it was. 1143 01:18:51,728 --> 01:18:56,228 So they sent it out for testing at riverside. 1144 01:18:56,232 --> 01:18:58,782 The car was being tested by Ken miles. 1145 01:19:00,612 --> 01:19:02,072 The car broke. 1146 01:19:02,071 --> 01:19:07,241 And when the car broke, he was doing 180mph. 1147 01:19:07,243 --> 01:19:10,833 It careened wildly. He went over the cliff. 1148 01:19:10,830 --> 01:19:12,870 It was unsurvivable. 1149 01:19:16,294 --> 01:19:18,054 We were all devastated, but I knew 1150 01:19:18,046 --> 01:19:20,376 Charlie was by far the most devastated. 1151 01:19:20,381 --> 01:19:23,641 I mean this guy was like a father to him. 1152 01:19:27,055 --> 01:19:29,265 When Ken died, I wasn't there unfortunately. 1153 01:19:34,729 --> 01:19:37,859 I'd never really lost a driver. 1154 01:19:37,857 --> 01:19:41,687 It was a very tragic en d to an amazing career. 1155 01:19:45,156 --> 01:19:48,826 In 1967 when the season began at Daytona, 1156 01:19:48,826 --> 01:19:54,326 Ford showed up with a full array of upgrade mark iis. 1157 01:19:54,332 --> 01:19:57,712 Ferrari wanted revenge after '66. 1158 01:19:57,710 --> 01:20:01,760 So he had the p4s and a p3.4, and he brought like 1159 01:20:01,756 --> 01:20:04,176 six cars or something. They were factory cars. 1160 01:20:06,678 --> 01:20:09,598 This was going to be a real showdown and a real race. 1161 01:20:17,689 --> 01:20:20,939 They had all these entries. And they were all big blocks. 1162 01:20:20,942 --> 01:20:23,282 Horrible goddamn thing. 1163 01:20:23,278 --> 01:20:26,038 They started coming in, one after the other with broken transmissions. 1164 01:20:28,741 --> 01:20:33,871 Only one out of six gt40s finished at Daytona in 1967. 1165 01:20:33,871 --> 01:20:36,251 Enzo Ferrari gets his revenge. 1166 01:20:36,249 --> 01:20:40,999 Ferrari won the 24 hours of Daytona with a 1-2-3 arrival 1167 01:20:41,004 --> 01:20:45,974 with two p4 and one 412. 1168 01:20:45,967 --> 01:20:50,797 Ferrari, having lost at le mans, got a little bit of 1169 01:20:50,805 --> 01:20:54,215 its own back by going to Daytona. 1170 01:20:54,225 --> 01:20:57,095 Early in the career, they had not been as durable as the opposition 1171 01:20:57,103 --> 01:21:00,733 this is the first time that Ford had been slower than the opposition. 1172 01:21:00,732 --> 01:21:04,192 So at that point it became clear to the hierarchy 1173 01:21:04,193 --> 01:21:06,403 that something needed to be done. 1174 01:21:06,404 --> 01:21:12,874 But it wasn't clear how to make the mark ii decidedly faster in a short period of time. 1175 01:21:12,869 --> 01:21:16,959 Phil Remington returned to dearborn with two 1176 01:21:16,956 --> 01:21:20,456 of his chief fabricators and they took the first 1177 01:21:20,460 --> 01:21:26,300 j-car chassis, they took it into the wind tunnel and they started literally cutting away 1178 01:21:26,299 --> 01:21:30,389 at the bodywork to try to improve the aerodynamics of the car. 1179 01:21:30,386 --> 01:21:33,386 They came up with a shape that was so dramatically 1180 01:21:33,389 --> 01:21:34,559 different from the j-car... 1181 01:21:34,557 --> 01:21:37,517 That they dubbed the new car the mark iv. 1182 01:21:37,518 --> 01:21:42,148 The mark iv was perfect out of the box. 1183 01:21:42,148 --> 01:21:45,108 It was completely designed and built, the whole car, 1184 01:21:45,109 --> 01:21:48,399 in the United States. Not england. No Italian gearbox. Nothing. 1185 01:21:48,404 --> 01:21:51,074 You didn't have to take it out and get it ported or balanced. 1186 01:21:51,074 --> 01:21:54,454 You didn't have to build an engine. Right out of the box! 1187 01:21:54,452 --> 01:21:57,832 And the engines, they had part numbers on them. 1188 01:21:57,830 --> 01:22:00,500 You could go to a Ford dealer and purchase 1189 01:22:00,500 --> 01:22:03,090 the exact parts that are in that engine. 1190 01:22:03,086 --> 01:22:06,456 Assemble your own race engine and get the same performance out of it. 1191 01:22:07,548 --> 01:22:11,178 For us, that was our goal. 1192 01:22:11,177 --> 01:22:14,297 And they went out and tested that almost immediately thereafter 1193 01:22:14,305 --> 01:22:17,965 out in Arizona and it proved to be faster right out of the box 1194 01:22:17,975 --> 01:22:21,185 than the existing mark ii. So that's when it was decided 1195 01:22:21,187 --> 01:22:24,607 to race the mark iv at sebring, and if it did well at sebring, 1196 01:22:24,607 --> 01:22:26,977 they would go ahead and take that to le mans. 1197 01:22:32,031 --> 01:22:35,621 Fast is the competitively untested Ford mark iv. 1198 01:22:35,618 --> 01:22:39,498 The super slick lemon-yellow mark iv is Ford's standard-bearer. 1199 01:22:39,497 --> 01:22:42,457 Bruce mclaren and Mario andretti will be at the controls. 1200 01:22:42,458 --> 01:22:45,168 What is your strategy in the 12 hours? 1201 01:22:45,169 --> 01:22:49,299 Well, I think we've got a car that should be fast enough to lead it 1202 01:22:49,298 --> 01:22:53,428 if qualifications are any indication at all. 1203 01:22:53,428 --> 01:22:56,888 Ford's only other factory entry: A slightly reworked version 1204 01:22:56,889 --> 01:22:59,219 of last year's victorious mark ii. 1205 01:22:59,225 --> 01:23:02,225 Lloyd Ruby and aj foyt are in command. 1206 01:23:02,228 --> 01:23:04,898 I; A. 1.1 q '.3111111 1207 01:23:04,897 --> 01:23:07,067 he didn't even bother sending them to sebring. 1208 01:23:07,066 --> 01:23:11,316 The competition would be between carroll Shelby's gt 40 mark ii b 1209 01:23:11,320 --> 01:23:13,870 versus the brand new mark iv. 1210 01:23:17,034 --> 01:23:19,584 Foyt is in the highest place Ford at the moment 1211 01:23:19,579 --> 01:23:22,209 and charging through the throng in the mark ii. 1212 01:23:26,043 --> 01:23:28,963 By the ss, the fords have gobbled up the quick starting offense. 1213 01:23:28,963 --> 01:23:32,383 Mclaren has assumed command with foyt second. 1214 01:23:32,383 --> 01:23:35,553 We go out there and we're running 7-10 seconds 1215 01:23:35,553 --> 01:23:41,143 a lap faster than foyt. I never had a better day in my life. 1216 01:23:41,142 --> 01:23:44,392 The lead car pulls in. Mclaren and andretti 1217 01:23:44,395 --> 01:23:48,265 have done a magnificent job in the new mark iv. 1218 01:23:48,274 --> 01:23:51,404 We raced it at sebring for the first time and won, 1219 01:23:51,402 --> 01:23:53,282 with Bruce mclaren as my partner. 1220 01:23:53,279 --> 01:23:58,239 And so as you can see, the mark iv became the envy of the competition. 1221 01:24:01,078 --> 01:24:05,118 Ford comes back to le mans in 1967 with a whole new goal. 1222 01:24:05,124 --> 01:24:09,044 They want to be the first American manufacturer to win the 24 hours 1223 01:24:09,045 --> 01:24:12,165 of le mans with a team of all American drivers. 1224 01:24:12,173 --> 01:24:15,093 It's race week. And along with every gendarme in 1225 01:24:15,092 --> 01:24:19,052 the south of France, comes the world's finest racing machinery. 1226 01:24:19,055 --> 01:24:23,225 It would be the first time the mark iv and the p4 would face each other 1227 01:24:23,226 --> 01:24:27,936 on the racetrack. And these were two really iconic cars, 1228 01:24:27,939 --> 01:24:30,569 representative of two different kind of philosophies 1229 01:24:30,566 --> 01:24:36,196 and racecar design and construction, but both aimed towards the same end. 1230 01:24:36,197 --> 01:24:40,237 There are so many good cars there. There were probably 1231 01:24:40,243 --> 01:24:43,453 eight or ten cars there with a legitimate shot at winning. 1232 01:24:43,454 --> 01:24:47,544 The world was waiting to see what was going to happen. 1233 01:24:47,542 --> 01:24:50,542 World famous drivers. Mario andretti, winner of 1234 01:24:50,545 --> 01:24:53,295 the most recent international endurance race at sebring. 1235 01:24:54,632 --> 01:24:57,592 Aj foyt and Dan gurney raced against each other 1236 01:24:57,593 --> 01:24:59,593 at indie just twelve days earlier. 1237 01:24:59,595 --> 01:25:04,215 Now they are teammates driving one of the new mark iv fords. 1238 01:25:04,225 --> 01:25:06,765 Foyt gets ready for practice in the no.1 mark iv. 1239 01:25:06,769 --> 01:25:08,399 He's never driven the track before 1240 01:25:08,396 --> 01:25:12,686 and this is the first time he's been in the sleek new Ford. 1241 01:25:12,692 --> 01:25:18,362 We started practice and we have an issue with the cracked windshields. 1242 01:25:18,364 --> 01:25:24,414 When the incredibly fast fords reach peak speeds in excess 1243 01:25:24,412 --> 01:25:26,752 . .~, ,,, 1244 01:25:26,747 --> 01:25:29,747 and thrown with enough velocity to crack the windshields. 1245 01:25:29,750 --> 01:25:34,130 They must all be replaced and the supply is short. 1246 01:25:34,130 --> 01:25:38,430 Ford took out first class in one of the airliners. 1247 01:25:38,426 --> 01:25:43,346 And they sent about a dozen or so windshields. 1248 01:25:43,347 --> 01:25:46,597 During the night, one special aircraft came from 1249 01:25:46,601 --> 01:25:51,351 Detroit directly to le mans with new material. 1250 01:25:51,355 --> 01:25:55,355 Ferrari couldn't have the financial capability to do something like that. 1251 01:25:57,486 --> 01:26:00,816 Ferrari has three of their factory p4s in the top ten. 1252 01:26:00,823 --> 01:26:05,333 They finished 1-2-3 in the only other 24 hour race of the season at Daytona. 1253 01:26:05,328 --> 01:26:10,248 The candy colored fords are the fastest, with six of the top ten starting positions. 1254 01:26:23,554 --> 01:26:27,224 Ronnie bucknum, driving the no.57 Ford mark ii, 1255 01:26:27,224 --> 01:26:30,104 leads the pack off the starting grid. 1256 01:26:30,102 --> 01:26:32,772 < "7.,. 1257 01:26:36,317 --> 01:26:41,237 He's in the car, gone, and he comes back after the first lap 1258 01:26:41,238 --> 01:26:44,568 thirty seconds ahead of the second place car. 1259 01:26:44,575 --> 01:26:46,735 Here comes the rest of the pack. 1260 01:26:46,744 --> 01:26:49,084 Two Ferrari p4s and two fords. 1261 01:26:51,374 --> 01:26:54,424 As the race progressed, the fords took the lead. 1262 01:26:55,628 --> 01:26:58,798 The ferraris were not too far behind, 1263 01:26:58,798 --> 01:27:01,008 but we were pulling away from them. 1264 01:27:05,346 --> 01:27:08,216 Now, from the air, we see gurney quickly 1265 01:27:08,224 --> 01:27:11,444 accelerating to become the leader on the 48th lap. 1266 01:27:16,107 --> 01:27:18,647 Foyt begins his two hour stint behind the wheel. 1267 01:27:18,651 --> 01:27:20,821 His first appearance in competition at le mans, 1268 01:27:20,820 --> 01:27:23,410 and with only ten practice laps under his belt. 1269 01:27:23,406 --> 01:27:26,616 At this stage, gurney thinks things are going too easy. 1270 01:27:26,617 --> 01:27:29,577 The expected challenge from Ferrari hasn't developed. 1271 01:27:29,578 --> 01:27:31,538 Maybe he set too fast a pace. 1272 01:27:31,539 --> 01:27:35,669 Fifteen cars have already dropped out trying to keep up with the bright red Ford, 1273 01:27:35,668 --> 01:27:38,708 and now there's a rookie driver in the car 1274 01:27:48,639 --> 01:27:52,389 the gt40 if it has an achilles heel. It's in the brakes. 1275 01:27:52,393 --> 01:27:55,903 It would go about 212, 213mph down the straight way, 1276 01:27:55,896 --> 01:27:58,476 the you'd come to the mulsanne turn 1277 01:27:58,482 --> 01:28:02,152 and you have to slow down to maybe 30mph. 1278 01:28:02,153 --> 01:28:04,573 That can really raise Kane with the brakes. 1279 01:28:06,699 --> 01:28:09,739 So what I did, I invented a new approach for braking. 1280 01:28:13,372 --> 01:28:17,672 The chicken shit form of braking I invented 1281 01:28:17,668 --> 01:28:20,798 I used instead of deep braking. 1282 01:28:20,796 --> 01:28:26,886 What I did was back off about 300 yards sooner than I had to, 1283 01:28:26,886 --> 01:28:30,886 and let the engine slow the car down and then I'd brake 1284 01:28:30,890 --> 01:28:33,390 and down shift and go around the corner. Well, 1285 01:28:33,392 --> 01:28:35,442 this was much easier for the brakes. 1286 01:28:36,896 --> 01:28:39,936 That was something i worked with aj on. 1287 01:28:39,940 --> 01:28:46,950 So we went at this thing with a slightly different philosophy of how to do it. 1288 01:28:46,947 --> 01:28:50,527 < . m . 4,. 1289 01:28:50,534 --> 01:28:52,914 Has charged into a seven lap lead. 1290 01:28:52,912 --> 01:28:56,372 We got foyt and gurney, and nobody expected them to finish. 1291 01:28:56,373 --> 01:29:01,633 Gurney did a wonderful job of not showing foyt how fast the car would go. 1292 01:29:01,629 --> 01:29:04,549 And foyt did a fabulous job in 1293 01:29:04,548 --> 01:29:08,678 driving within his limits, realizing that 24 hours is a long time, 1294 01:29:08,677 --> 01:29:12,637 taking care of the engine, taking care of the gearbox. 1295 01:29:12,640 --> 01:29:15,350 Mr. Ford had his sergeants with him, 1296 01:29:15,351 --> 01:29:17,561 but they would come through every two or three hours 1297 01:29:17,561 --> 01:29:19,731 and that happened all night long. 1298 01:29:19,730 --> 01:29:22,900 Fortunately for us, we always had good news for him at the time. 1299 01:29:22,900 --> 01:29:25,570 At 3:30 in the morning, the whole complexion of 1300 01:29:25,569 --> 01:29:28,279 the race changes when andretti spins his car, 1301 01:29:28,280 --> 01:29:31,240 bounces off the wall, and stops in the middle of the track. 1302 01:29:31,242 --> 01:29:33,792 Seconds later, and McCluskey and Jo schlesser spin off 1303 01:29:33,786 --> 01:29:36,496 trying to avoid andretti. No one is injured, but 1304 01:29:36,497 --> 01:29:38,867 all three cars must be retired. 1305 01:29:38,874 --> 01:29:42,544 Ferrari hadn't given up, and Ford did everything 1306 01:29:42,545 --> 01:29:45,545 they could to help Ferrari stay in the race. 1307 01:29:45,548 --> 01:29:48,338 They lost three cars in one accident. 1308 01:29:48,342 --> 01:29:50,762 Two factory ferraris are in hot pursuit. 1309 01:29:50,761 --> 01:29:53,301 Now in second and third position. 1310 01:29:53,305 --> 01:29:55,675 Bruce mclaren is in fourth position. 1311 01:29:55,683 --> 01:29:57,983 And as he accelerates along the mulsanne straight, 1312 01:29:57,977 --> 01:29:59,937 the top his car comes loose. 1313 01:29:59,937 --> 01:30:04,727 He's forced to slow down and hold in on by hand. 1314 01:30:04,733 --> 01:30:08,403 There was only one Ford left, and that happened to be ours. 1315 01:30:32,970 --> 01:30:35,970 Less than four hours to go, Dan gurney drives 1316 01:30:35,973 --> 01:30:40,023 the no.1 Ford for his last shift, before turning it over to aj foyt, 1317 01:30:40,019 --> 01:30:43,019 waiting in the pits, who is scheduled to finish the race. 1318 01:30:45,900 --> 01:30:47,900 The ferraris begin to pick up the pace, 1319 01:30:47,902 --> 01:30:50,362 hoping to push the leading Ford into a breakdown. 1320 01:30:54,575 --> 01:30:58,745 The Ford was about 3mph faster than the Ferrari. 1321 01:30:58,746 --> 01:31:02,786 Even though he was in the draft, I could walk away 1322 01:31:02,791 --> 01:31:04,881 from him down the straight away a little bit. 1323 01:31:04,877 --> 01:31:07,707 And then when I backed off early, he was all over me, 1324 01:31:07,713 --> 01:31:12,933 flicking his lights. This happened for four or five laps. 1325 01:31:12,927 --> 01:31:16,097 Every time we came to the last 90 degree turn, 1326 01:31:16,096 --> 01:31:19,886 at the end of the mulsanne straight, he was right on me. 1327 01:31:19,892 --> 01:31:21,852 He was really bothering me. 1328 01:31:21,852 --> 01:31:25,062 And finally I got to a turn called arnage. 1329 01:31:25,064 --> 01:31:27,074 And I went around the turn, 1330 01:31:27,066 --> 01:31:30,856 and slowly pulled off to the right, onto the grass and stopped. 1331 01:31:32,446 --> 01:31:34,906 And he pulled off behind me 1332 01:31:34,907 --> 01:31:38,077 and stopped right behind me. On the grass. 1333 01:31:38,077 --> 01:31:41,617 So I thought to myself, now what? 1334 01:31:41,622 --> 01:31:47,542 And it stayed that way for probably ten or twelve seconds... 1335 01:31:47,544 --> 01:31:51,884 And then finally he pulled out and went on. 1336 01:31:51,882 --> 01:31:55,722 He ended up finishing second. 1337 01:31:55,719 --> 01:31:58,809 Ferrari were always fairly close to the pace, 1338 01:31:58,806 --> 01:31:59,966 but never close enough. 1339 01:32:00,891 --> 01:32:03,561 It was the steamroller again. 1340 01:32:03,560 --> 01:32:05,600 Weight of numbers. Ford won. 1341 01:32:08,440 --> 01:32:10,820 There's the checkered flag. 1342 01:32:13,946 --> 01:32:17,446 Dan gurney climbs atop the Ford mark iv. 1343 01:32:17,449 --> 01:32:19,119 It's an all-American win. 1344 01:32:19,118 --> 01:32:22,498 The veteran, Dan gurney, from California. 1345 01:32:22,496 --> 01:32:25,996 The hard-charging aj foyt from Texas. 1346 01:32:26,000 --> 01:32:30,050 And the durable mark iv Ford from dearborn, Michigan. 1347 01:32:35,676 --> 01:32:38,466 Foyt and gurney were the least likely winners. 1348 01:32:38,470 --> 01:32:43,470 We were given them and everybody thought they'd blow up. 1349 01:32:43,475 --> 01:32:46,975 Well, they didn't. 1350 01:32:46,979 --> 01:32:49,019 The Ford guys were just over the moon. 1351 01:32:49,023 --> 01:32:52,903 Anything they wanted, they got for le mans in 1967. 1352 01:32:52,901 --> 01:32:57,861 Foyt was lighting cigars and cigarettes with a hundred franc bill, 1353 01:32:57,865 --> 01:33:00,025 everyone was going berserk. 1354 01:33:05,748 --> 01:33:08,458 We were all up on the platform. 1355 01:33:08,459 --> 01:33:12,589 At that moment I was handed a gigantic bottle of champagne. 1356 01:33:12,588 --> 01:33:16,798 It was a huge achievement after trying many times. 1357 01:33:16,800 --> 01:33:19,550 There were seven times where i didn't even finish. 1358 01:33:19,553 --> 01:33:23,683 I just felt... Let's do something here. 1359 01:33:23,682 --> 01:33:25,142 \.Y'\'» r 1360 01:33:25,142 --> 01:33:26,892 he sprays the crowd with champagne. 1361 01:33:26,894 --> 01:33:28,194 Nobody had ever done that. 1362 01:33:28,187 --> 01:33:32,727 Like a fire hose, I could get every single one of them. 1363 01:33:32,733 --> 01:33:35,743 I didn't realize what it would evolve into. 1364 01:33:35,736 --> 01:33:39,606 Now, in every race, particularly in Europe, people win... 1365 01:33:39,615 --> 01:33:41,115 They pop the champagne and spray it. 1366 01:33:41,116 --> 01:33:43,866 It all started right there at le mans in 1967. 1367 01:33:51,043 --> 01:33:54,133 It meant a great deal to all of us. 1368 01:33:54,129 --> 01:33:58,049 Ford went on to win the 24 hours of le mans again in 1968. 1369 01:33:58,050 --> 01:34:01,930 Again in 1969. And Ferrari never won le mans again. 1370 01:34:05,265 --> 01:34:08,845 The Ford-Ferrari rivalry? That is the golden age of racing. 1371 01:34:08,852 --> 01:34:11,062 There's been a great battle, a great fight. 1372 01:34:11,063 --> 01:34:16,073 It's really a part of the history of motor racing. 1373 01:34:16,068 --> 01:34:19,648 It's easy to think of the gt 40 as being 1374 01:34:19,655 --> 01:34:22,155 the iconic car of the time, 1375 01:34:22,157 --> 01:34:25,197 but the ferraris that were racing against them, 1376 01:34:25,202 --> 01:34:28,542 were, in their own way, 1377 01:34:28,539 --> 01:34:31,669 the most sophisticated sports cars ever built. 1378 01:34:34,586 --> 01:34:37,706 You mention Ferrari anywhere on the manet, 1379 01:34:37,714 --> 01:34:40,054 everybody knows what they're all about. 1380 01:34:40,050 --> 01:34:42,680 They're all about high performance and winning. 1381 01:34:43,887 --> 01:34:45,637 Clear. 1382 01:34:45,639 --> 01:34:48,389 Ferrari did win everything there was worth inning. 1383 01:34:48,392 --> 01:34:51,732 And he did it entirely his own way. 1384 01:34:51,728 --> 01:34:54,308 He delivered huge results, 1385 01:34:54,314 --> 01:34:57,734 and with a massive personality. 1386 01:34:57,734 --> 01:35:01,364 I'm often asked, "what was the best car you ever drove?" 1387 01:35:01,363 --> 01:35:03,663 Top of the list is the gt40. 1388 01:35:04,825 --> 01:35:07,235 American made cars 1389 01:35:07,244 --> 01:35:09,204 all of a sudden had a 1390 01:35:09,204 --> 01:35:12,004 new appreciation globally. 1391 01:35:11,999 --> 01:35:16,589 Once you achieve what the gt40 has achieved, 1392 01:35:16,587 --> 01:35:18,747 you're in the history forever. 1393 01:35:18,755 --> 01:35:21,715 It's part of an incredible accomplishment, 1394 01:35:21,717 --> 01:35:25,757 in the most competitive arena. 1395 01:35:25,762 --> 01:35:29,772 The legacy of the gt40 and the ferraris that 1396 01:35:29,766 --> 01:35:37,316 raced against it, was really to start the modern generation of le mans. 1397 01:35:37,316 --> 01:35:41,066 It was the start of big money, factory teams. 1398 01:35:41,069 --> 01:35:45,699 It really changed from being specially prepared 1399 01:35:45,699 --> 01:35:49,239 sports racing cars, to being cars designed 1400 01:35:49,244 --> 01:35:53,664 from the ground up just to do le mans. 1401 01:35:53,665 --> 01:35:56,875 Now the cars are bulletproof. The drivers drive flat out. 1402 01:35:56,877 --> 01:35:58,837 We couldn't do that. 1403 01:35:58,837 --> 01:36:01,957 Doesn't matter what brand, or what car, or who's racing. 1404 01:36:01,965 --> 01:36:05,045 In the end, we all have this drive to compete. 1405 01:36:05,052 --> 01:36:08,142 I've been so lucky to be on the same track 1406 01:36:08,138 --> 01:36:13,678 with the best drivers that ever put their hands on a steering wheel of a race car. 1407 01:36:13,685 --> 01:36:18,805 Only two makes ever won le mans in the 1960s. 1408 01:36:18,815 --> 01:36:23,395 Ferrari won the first half, Ford won the second half. 1409 01:36:23,403 --> 01:36:26,913 In the history of motor racing, there will never be another 1410 01:36:26,907 --> 01:36:29,407 rivalry like the Ford and Ferrari wars at le mans. 1411 01:36:29,409 --> 01:36:32,119 It's one of the great grudge matches of history. 1412 01:36:32,120 --> 01:36:35,040 Not just motor sports, but all of sporting history. 1413 01:36:44,424 --> 01:36:46,724 Such a historic occasion. 1414 01:36:46,718 --> 01:36:48,928 Fifty years on from the 1-2-3 finish, 1415 01:36:48,929 --> 01:36:51,889 and we're back for another crack. 1416 01:36:51,890 --> 01:36:55,940 So to be back fifty years later, with my dad, is kind of special. 1417 01:36:55,936 --> 01:36:58,806 The tricolore will be waved by Brad Pitt. 1418 01:36:58,814 --> 01:37:04,034 We are racing the 84th running of the 24 hours of le mans. 1419 01:37:04,027 --> 01:37:07,657 The Ford gt and a Ferrari, battling it out. 1420 01:37:11,493 --> 01:37:13,453 We had a problem at the start with the car, 1421 01:37:13,453 --> 01:37:15,583 it's a couple laps down right now. 1422 01:37:20,377 --> 01:37:23,377 The no.82 Ferrari, Matteo malucelli, 1423 01:37:23,380 --> 01:37:25,970 is going to lose the lead. 1424 01:37:34,891 --> 01:37:37,731 Oh, there goes the racing competition Ferrari. 1425 01:37:37,728 --> 01:37:40,018 That gives Ford the upper hand. 1426 01:37:52,409 --> 01:37:56,079 The reason this car was created was to win this race. 1427 01:37:56,079 --> 01:38:01,289 Fifty years later after the infamous 1-2-3 and we did it. 122964

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