Word: enzo
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...steel. The rods were power output shafts for the transmissions of six 490-h.p. Mark II racers that Ford had entered in the season's first big sports-car race-with high hopes of retaining the world manufacturers' championship it had wrested away from Italy's Enzo Ferrari last year with victories at Daytona, Sebring and Le Mans. Ford had earmarked $6,000,000 for the campaign. The transmission output shafts accounted for less than $750-but for want of a shaft the first battle, at least, was lost...
...weapons were in keeping with the times: automobiles. The battle ground was the 24 Hours of Le Mans, the world's toughest, most famous auto race, the one the French themselves call "La Ronde Infernale." The combatants: Italy's canny old Enzo Ferrari, whose heraldic emblem, a rampant black stallion, has been the proudest marque in racing for more than a decade; and the U.S.'s Henry Ford II, a businessman-turned-sportsman mostly because he had a score to settle. Three years ago, Ford tried to buy control of Ferrari. Ferrari turned him down...
...They have us in their hip pocket," said Texas Oilman Hap Sharp, complaining that Jiis two Chevrolet-powered Chaparrals were leaking oil and handling poorly on practice runs. Italy's Enzo Ferrari, whose high-whining, finely tuned cars had dominated Sebring for a decade, winning seven times in all, was so pessimistic about his chances of stopping Ford's "steamroller" this year that he bothered to enter only one prototype in the race. Of course, the new Ferrari 330 P3 was quite a car: developed specifically to compete with Ford, it harbors beneath its streamlined, electric-red shell...
...years ago, Shelby took a team of Fords to Le Mans, managed a fourth-place finish behind three Ferraris. "We threw a scare into Enzo," he crowed. "Next time we'll have his hide." But last year Ferraris swept the first three places at Le Mans, and only one of Shelby's Fords even finished the race...
Maybe it wasn't Le Mans. And maybe, as some Ferrari fans insisted, old Enzo had only sent his "second team" to Daytona. But for the first time ever, a U.S. car had won a 24-hour endurance race. Even Luigi Chinetti, the Ferrari team manager and a naturalized American, felt a certain glow. "I am happy for my country," he said...