00:00It was the greatest rivalry in the history of racing.
00:07All the Formula 1 stars alongside all the sports car heroes drove in it.
00:13The most dangerous sporting event of any kind.
00:17Two titans of the automobile industry waged war at the biggest race in the world.
00:23It was the 24 hours of Le Mans.
00:29Death was almost routine at racetracks.
00:36When you got in the car, you had to be ready to die.
00:42But the car that would win is the car that people wanted to buy.
00:46By the mid-1960s, the name of the game at Le Mans had become Beat Ferrari.
00:52Ford had nothing that could compete.
00:54We didn't have that performance that customers wanted.
00:58Henry sees a Ferrari win and says, we need those red cars.
01:03He felt the easiest way to do it was just to buy Ferrari.
01:05Ferrari said no.
01:07That's when he decided, we're going to beat you and we're going to beat you at your own game in your backyard.
01:16The GT40 is furiously fast.
01:22When they went to bigger engines, all of a sudden, all the drivers were smiling.
01:27That's when we started seeing some real speeds.
01:29The cars were running quick, but we had all kinds of engine problems.
01:34With the race only one third through, the Ford Challenge had been shattered by Ferrari.
01:39Henry Ford II was pissed.
01:42He made it very clear that we were not going to fail again.
01:46The Ford-Ferrari rivalry, that is the golden age of racing.
01:50There were two great enemies that were going to have some great races.
01:54There's been a great battle, great fight.
01:57It's really a part of the history of motor racing.
02:01People all over the world were watching this one race.
02:04Who was going to win it?
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