Fact-Checking 'Ford vs. Ferrari' and Engineering Expertise

to anybody anywhere that had ever been to a race and one scene the shelby character rolls the card out and he says this is the way we're gonna speed up our pit stops we'll just change this and it was a complete front upright assembly with a-frame shocks brakes everything attached and it would only take you about two hours to swap that out and you got three more to swap but that's how in the movie they said we're gonna speed up the pits in one their daytona and the guy said how can they pit so quick and the other guy says it's those damn nascar guys that's us we just had our act together um when bibi asked us to join the program he told carol shelby when he was bitching about it that you're just a race team homey moody's a factory we need a factory we got to get this stuff finished and that's what we did that's interesting you said you never would have known that yeah we had 600 employees at that time and one customer henry ford ii every one of them was doing something for ford in comparison it was costing forward a million a day or not a million a week to keep that's not a million a month it was about 14 million a year um we were getting a million a month from ford to fund all of the drag racing all of the gt's all of the nascar everything about a million a month and we were getting the job done and hendrick and joe gibbs both have about 600 employees and it takes them a million dollars every business day to keep the doors open wow it's just different times labor more travels more cart parts or more the ford thing was was impressive the most money ever dumped into racing in one big lump ford spit more that year and their ads for the super bowl so when the overall image of of money chump change didn't matter but to racing it was a big deal that's really interesting so when for all those uh gt40s what what parts did shelby actually do like did they get their own bear chassis and put it together and you guys did too or they get stuff from you and they got all the parts and pieces from england and the chassis is from england and they assembled them and what we started doing was making the headers modifying the the bearings modifying the hubs modifying the uprights changing the suspension stuff shelby had never seen a surface plate so they didn't know how to do a childhood rebound um engineering study of the suspension where the parts were going as they would go up and down do they toe in toe out they just raced them we had the capacity to do all of that and so…