David Rosenthal: commitment

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…I mean, he's not racing them. He's trying not to have Dino race them. He's not meeting the drivers anymore. He's trying not to get too wrapped up in the lives of the drivers. And yet his son is still taken from him in this horrible illness that he cannot control and is pure randomness and awfulness. That's a great point. And it is truly shattering for Enzo. This is the shattering event among many shattering events in his life. Because it's, of course, the grief for his lost son, but it's also the grief for his empire. Like, it's gone. He has no heir anymore. The line won't continue. So, after Dino's death, Enzo stops going to races. It's sort of like a self-inflicted punishment that You know, if Dino can't be here with me to go to the races, then I will no longer travel to and go to the races, to my great, terrible joys. And it is both the end of his family line, or so he believes at this point in history, but also it's the end of sort of the inherited company that this is an old school era of capitalism where the company would be passed down through the male heir in the family. I mean, today Ferrari is a publicly traded company with multiple families and owners and parent companies and holding companies involved. Enzo's assumption here is that none of that is gonna happen in the far future. It is that Dino, my son, will own it and his descendants will own it.…

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