--- product_id: 1524410 title: "Go Like Hell: Ford, Ferrari, and Their Battle for Speed and Glory at Le Mans" price: "€ 36.73" currency: EUR in_stock: true reviews_count: 13 url: https://www.desertcart.gr/products/1524410-go-like-hell-ford-ferrari-and-their-battle-for-speed store_origin: GR region: Greece --- # Go Like Hell: Ford, Ferrari, and Their Battle for Speed and Glory at Le Mans **Price:** € 36.73 **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** Go Like Hell: Ford, Ferrari, and Their Battle for Speed and Glory at Le Mans - **How much does it cost?** € 36.73 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.gr](https://www.desertcart.gr/products/1524410-go-like-hell-ford-ferrari-and-their-battle-for-speed) ## Best For - Customers looking for quality international products ## Why This Product - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description The epic story of automotive history also told in the film FORD V. FERRARI: By the early 1960s, the Ford Motor Company, built to bring automobile transportation to the masses, was falling behind. Young Henry Ford II, who had taken the reins of his grandfather’s company with little business experience to speak of, knew he had to do something to shake things up. Baby boomers were taking to the road in droves, looking for speed not safety, style not comfort. Meanwhile, Enzo Ferrari, whose cars epitomized style, lorded it over the European racing scene. He crafted beautiful sports cars, "science fiction on wheels," but was also called "the Assassin" because so many drivers perished while racing them. This riveting work of narrative nonfiction, Go Like Hell , tells the remarkable story of how Henry Ford II, with the help of a young visionary named Lee Iacocca and a former racing champion turned engineer, Carroll Shelby, concocted a scheme to reinvent the Ford company. They would enter the high-stakes world of European car racing, where an adventurous few threw safety and sanity to the wind. They would design, build, and race a car that could beat Ferrari at his own game at the 24 Hours of Le Mans, the most prestigious and brutal race in the world, something no American car had ever done. Go Like Hell transports readers to a risk-filled, glorious time in this brilliant portrait of the legendary Ford vs. Ferrari rivalry, a battle between two industrialists, the cars they built, and the "pilots" who would drive them to victory, or doom. Based on extensive research, this book puts you in the driver’s seat for one of the most thrilling showdowns in sports history. A Clash of Titans: Go inside the boardrooms and minds of two fiercely competitive men, Henry Ford II and Enzo Ferrari, as they wage a corporate battle for pride, glory, and market dominance. Legendary Innovators: Meet the brilliant and relentless team Ford assembled, including the visionary Lee Iacocca and the legendary Texan racing champion Carroll Shelby, tasked with building a car from scratch to dethrone a king. Engineering and Audacity: Discover the incredible true story of the engineering and risks behind the creation of an iconic car, a machine built with one singular and seemingly impossible purpose: victory at Le Mans. High-Stakes Racing History: Feel the tension and danger of 1960s European car racing, where courageous "pilots" pushed the limits of speed and sanity in pursuit of the checkered flag. Review: Exceptional Exploration of the Competition between Ford and Ferrari to Win Le Mans - A.J. Baime has written a fascinating and involving book about European race car life in the 1960's, some might offer the Golden Age of the sport, driven by the competition between Ford and Ferrari. AJB is a very solid writer and his prose is compelling and his research deep. In particular he delves into the two personalities that drove (no pun intended) the competition: Henry Ford the second, grandson of The Henry Ford and Ferrari himself, the creator of the most dynamic of European sports cars then and now. The story is more than just theirs, it is heavily shaped by many others ranging from the steel-nerved drivers of the day to the cadre of engineers and builders of the cars. Some of the characters are well fleshed out and re-occur throughout the story, such as Carrol Shelby. There are a few times when the mob of car designers, builders and racing stalwarts can get a little confusing. In addition there were some of the races that AJB glossed over. A few of the races in which he dug into were some of the more exciting passages of the book. I certainly understand why he didn't want to write hundreds of pages regurgitating car positions etc. but a few of the races he didn't explore other than share the results. It seemed the book was just a little lighter in this area than it should have been. With that flaw aside, it is a well written book and brings to life a time of sport and dynamic competition that I found fascinating. My guess is that you will find it invigorating as well. Review: Book version of Ford vs. Ferrari - I am not a racing fan; however, I enjoyed Go Like Hell by A. J. Baime. It is about the 1960s rivalry between Enzo Ferrari and Henry Ford II in the annual 24-hour Le Mans in France. The rivalry began when Henry Ford II tried to purchase the struggling Italian car manufacturing company but was turned down as he wouldn't agree to allowing Enzo Ferrari to control the racing activity of a Ford-owned-Ferrari enterprise. This led to continued attempts by Ford Motor Company's leadership to defeat Ferrari's dominance on the Le Mans race during the 1960s. Aside from Enzo Ferrari and Henry Ford II, the book also includes other racing greats and colorful characters such as Carroll Shelby, Bruce McLaren, John Surtees, and Mario Andretti. The author is also very descriptive of the individual races as well as the engineering of the automobiles. A recommended read enjoyable for both F1 and non-F1 fans. ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | Best Sellers Rank | #37,981 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #4 in Automotive History (Books) #8 in Motor Sports (Books) #14 in Automotive Racing | | Customer Reviews | 4.7 out of 5 stars 3,574 Reviews | ## Images ![Go Like Hell: Ford, Ferrari, and Their Battle for Speed and Glory at Le Mans - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71zQpNhABBL.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Exceptional Exploration of the Competition between Ford and Ferrari to Win Le Mans *by W***B on March 7, 2017* A.J. Baime has written a fascinating and involving book about European race car life in the 1960's, some might offer the Golden Age of the sport, driven by the competition between Ford and Ferrari. AJB is a very solid writer and his prose is compelling and his research deep. In particular he delves into the two personalities that drove (no pun intended) the competition: Henry Ford the second, grandson of The Henry Ford and Ferrari himself, the creator of the most dynamic of European sports cars then and now. The story is more than just theirs, it is heavily shaped by many others ranging from the steel-nerved drivers of the day to the cadre of engineers and builders of the cars. Some of the characters are well fleshed out and re-occur throughout the story, such as Carrol Shelby. There are a few times when the mob of car designers, builders and racing stalwarts can get a little confusing. In addition there were some of the races that AJB glossed over. A few of the races in which he dug into were some of the more exciting passages of the book. I certainly understand why he didn't want to write hundreds of pages regurgitating car positions etc. but a few of the races he didn't explore other than share the results. It seemed the book was just a little lighter in this area than it should have been. With that flaw aside, it is a well written book and brings to life a time of sport and dynamic competition that I found fascinating. My guess is that you will find it invigorating as well. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Book version of Ford vs. Ferrari *by D***N on December 5, 2025* I am not a racing fan; however, I enjoyed Go Like Hell by A. J. Baime. It is about the 1960s rivalry between Enzo Ferrari and Henry Ford II in the annual 24-hour Le Mans in France. The rivalry began when Henry Ford II tried to purchase the struggling Italian car manufacturing company but was turned down as he wouldn't agree to allowing Enzo Ferrari to control the racing activity of a Ford-owned-Ferrari enterprise. This led to continued attempts by Ford Motor Company's leadership to defeat Ferrari's dominance on the Le Mans race during the 1960s. Aside from Enzo Ferrari and Henry Ford II, the book also includes other racing greats and colorful characters such as Carroll Shelby, Bruce McLaren, John Surtees, and Mario Andretti. The author is also very descriptive of the individual races as well as the engineering of the automobiles. A recommended read enjoyable for both F1 and non-F1 fans. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Ford versus Ferrari *by D***R on February 15, 2021* This book is about the automotive competition between the large, sprawling, and bureaucratic Ford Motor Company and Ferrari of Italy to win the annual 24 hour long car race in Le Mans, France during the 1960s. There is much rich material in this story which gets underway in the early 1960s with Ford losing market share to General Motors and its leader, Henry Ford II, the grandson of the founder of the company, Henry Ford, deciding to withdraw from a 1957 agreement among auto manufacturers to refrain from linking their products to racing via advertising. Ford attempts to buy Ferrari, then the established leader in car racing worldwide and the repeat winner of Le Mans for many years, but the leader of the sports car maker, Enzo Ferrari, pulls out of the deal at the last minute. This leads Ford to spend millions of dollars and hire tons of talented racing drivers and engineers to develop an automobile that can win at Le Mans. Author A.J. Baime has a lot of interesting events and characters to deal with. On the one hand there is Enzo Ferrari, a European who is brilliant at building fast cars and holds a philosophy of cars that attributes human qualities to them - they are beings, their engines are souls. On the other hand there is Henry Ford II, a child of privilege who heads a massive corporation with his name on the building. It has factories, committees, and limitless testing facilities and resources. Ford was seduced by an attitude toward the automobile that is European but he brought an American fascination with technology to the art of racing. Baime is a journalist and the book reads like a long magazine article. There are many avenues where he could have gone deeper into some of the events and characters. I wish he had explored more the origins of the Ford Motor Company, especially where Henry Ford became obsessed with racing early in his first two failed companies, and the ways in which this influenced the DNA of Ford. I would have liked to learn more about Enzo Ferrari’s background and his company. Ferrari seems to have used racing as a kind of advertisement for his products but you won’t get any sales figures or financial information in this book, it doesn’t get into that much detail, sadly. That said, Baime has talked to many of the people involved in this story, at least those that are alive (a lot of race car drivers’ deaths are recounted in this book) and his research seems to cover a lot of contemporary newspaper accounts of the races and memoirs of the racers. Even if it is a somewhat shallow account, it does have a very interesting story to tell and Baime covers it from both the Ford and the Ferrari side pretty extensively. Car racing is an exciting sport to many and this episode in its long history has relevance beyond the racetrack as it involves business history, automotive technology, and the history of the automobile. ## Frequently Bought Together - Go Like Hell: Ford, Ferrari, and Their Battle for Speed and Glory at Le Mans - Carroll Shelby - Enzo Ferrari: The Man and the Machine --- ## Why Shop on Desertcart? - 🛒 **Trusted by 1.3+ Million Shoppers** — Serving international shoppers since 2016 - 🌍 **Shop Globally** — Access 737+ million products across 21 categories - 💰 **No Hidden Fees** — All customs, duties, and taxes included in the price - 🔄 **15-Day Free Returns** — Hassle-free returns (30 days for PRO members) - 🔒 **Secure Payments** — Trusted payment options with buyer protection - ⭐ **TrustPilot Rated 4.5/5** — Based on 8,000+ happy customer reviews **Shop now:** [https://www.desertcart.gr/products/1524410-go-like-hell-ford-ferrari-and-their-battle-for-speed](https://www.desertcart.gr/products/1524410-go-like-hell-ford-ferrari-and-their-battle-for-speed) --- *Product available on Desertcart Greece* *Store origin: GR* *Last updated: 2026-07-28*