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Business Movers

Wondery

History, Business, Entrepreneurship

4.8 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 5 June 2025

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Ferry Porsche steers Porsche in a new direction and his company hits the headlines with a series of remarkable performances on the racetrack. But Porsche makes the news for the wrong reasons when a Hollywood icon is killed behind the wheel of a high-speed road car.

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0:13.0	One!
0:14.0	One!
0:15.0	...wondry! It's just before dawn on June 23, 1951 in Le Mans, France.
0:34.6	41-year-old Ferry Porsche leans inside the engine bay of a Porsche 356. It's not often
0:41.0	ferry gets his hands dirty these days. He spends most of his time designing cars with a pen and paper,
0:47.0	but later today, this 356 will make its debut in the prestigious 24 hours of Lamont Road Race
0:53.3	and ferries making a few last adjustments
0:55.7	to fine-tune its engine. All ferry's hopes rest on this single vehicle. He'd originally
1:01.7	intended to race three cars, but the other two have been totaled in crashes during practice.
1:07.6	Ferry tightens a nut and raises his head. Standing to one side in the garage is one of Porsche's drivers, Paul von Guillaume,
1:14.7	who was behind the wheel when one of the other 356s crashed a few days ago.
1:19.3	Ferry calls out to him.
1:20.6	Hey, Paul, could you give me a hand over here?
1:23.3	Paul wanders over.
1:24.8	His face is pale, and he has dark bags under his eyes.
1:28.0	Yeah, what do you mean? Just jump inside and fire her up. I want to see how she's running.
1:32.2	You sure it's worth it? Well, what do you mean by that? Aren't we going to drop out?
1:36.6	Why would we drop out? Well, we came here to race three cars, Ferry, now we only have one. One car's enough. It only takes one car to win. But what about the
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