Luca di Montezemolo

But in those early days of F1...

Other teams figured out, hey, you should probably move the engine to be a mid-engine, sort of above the rear axle, not in the front of the car.

And Enzo is very, like, he's biding his time.

He's like, well, wait and see.

And he's got this idea that in a carriage, the horse pulls the carriage.

Yeah.

Surely the engines should be in the front.

Yes.

And it took years to adopt the sort of correct, most balanced way to do it because he not only wanted to be a late adopter of technology to sort of let other people prove it out, but also because he was in a position to do so.

As a very early sort of luxury pioneer here, he realized that it only helped build the Ferrari myth.

Yes, exactly.

To talk about the old ways of doing things.

There's funny entries in the historical record here where in the same month that Enzo is out there talking about how the engine belongs in the front of the car, in Marinello, there are teams who are constructing next year's mid-engine car.

So say one thing, do the other.

Yes.

Or most of the F1 operations today that carry the name of a constructor of a car brand.

They're actually separate companies that happen to be owned by separate locations.

Whereas in Marinello, they're sitting there on the same plot of land.

But I think you nailed this point that I think is a little bit lost today, which is even then, in 1950-ish, you're not just going to go buy a Ferrari and then race it.

This is a highly maintained, serviced thing.