FORD AND FERRARI FIGHTING

Few of you know or remember, but from the '60s to the '70s there was the biggest discussion on the racecourse throughout the world between David and Goliath, that is the duel between Ferrari and Ford. The former had craftmade technology and human intelligence based on experience, the latter based on capital resources available to artificial intelligence: man against the robot, in summary this was what all sportsmen and not only were looking at. Needless to say who was deputy to win in the long run, but David fought to the death and was defeated only by the ubiquity of an irresistible force when Goliath collected all his energies his technology-based artificial intelligence but also leveraging an enormous economic effort. It was then that David - or the prancing horse from Maranello - gained even more trust and admiration by all athletes of the automotive world, who recognized the application of the Italian intelligence to the red racing cars. Races for the category Sport-Prototypes were an absolute spectacle as it reached the highest levels of engineering design and aerodynamics and an indissoluble union man-machine like never had before. A set of synergies that had reached unimaginable levels of technological progress also in the production of civilian cars. The emotion of hearing a 3 or a 4-liter 12-cylinder engine of the prancing horse from Maranello was very different music to the ears and the heart in comparison to the noise coming from the 7000 cubic centimeters engine made in England but built with dollars in Detroit. Everyone knew that sooner or later, Goliath would have won, it was only a matter of time - which lasted years - but everyone was cheering for David.

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