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...Richard H. Bertram. At 48, Florida's Dick Bertram is the Enzo Ferrari of powerboat racing. Like Ferrari, he sells luxury transportation to the well-heeled: his sleek, fiber-glass cruisers and sport fishermen cost anywhere from $9,000 to $75,000. Like Ferrari, he puts his reputation on the line on the racing circuit. And, like Ferrari, he almost always wins, in smooth water or rough...
Each year, Italy's Automaestro Enzo Ferrari brings his high-whining, finely tuned racing instruments to Florida for the Sebring Twelve Hour Endurance Race. Each year, with splendid monotony, they mop up everything but the oil on the track. When onetime Racing Driver Carroll Shelby decided in 1961 to challenge the master with a cannibalized machine of his own devising - a brutish Ford engine* jammed into a bulging A.C. Bristol body - the Monster of Maranello smiled a fine Italian smile. Last year on this concrete and blacktop track, three of the six Shelby Cobras entered broke down; highest Cobra...
Fortnight ago, Ferrari came again to Sebring and the master's entourage, with condescending eyes, looked over this year's Shelby Cobra. "This won't be a contest - for sure," one Ferrari expert predicted on the eve of the race. "Shel by can't put all that power to the road. The more power he gives the cars, the worse they handle." When the grueling, twelve-hour ordeal had ended, the Italians were hardly singing Un Bel Di. Ferrari's electric-red cars were in the top three places overall - first this year as they...
...tool along at 6,000 r.p.m., fast enough to place respectably, but slow enough to keep from breaking down on a track that demands 28 grating changes of gear to get through a single lap. The other two cars would bear down hard and stay in front of Ferrari's G.T.s at any cost-for as long as they held together...
...Came the race, and at 50 laps tense Cobra pitmen watched four Ferrari prototypes scream past the yellow trackside pylons, locked in the lead. But behind them on Sebring's blazing 100° track boomed a blue Cobra coupe followed by two open cockpit Cobra roadsters. Not a single Ferrari Gran Turismo went by among the first ten cars...