Ford v Ferrari: The Truth About Henry Ford Is Darker Than The Film

Ford v Ferrari gives you Henry Ford II as a punchline. Tracy Letts plays him as a cartoon — the bumbling executive who nearly ruins everything the real men are building. The film isn't wrong that he stole Ken Miles' Le Mans victory. But it leaves out everything that makes him actually interesting. The real Henry Ford II inherited a company losing $10 million a month, turned it into the second-largest industrial corporation on the planet, beat Ferrari at Le Mans four years running — and then authorized a memo that valued a human life at $200,000 and fired the most talented executive in American business because he simply didn't like him. This is the full story Hollywood didn't tell you.