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Maybe if Ferruccio Lamborghini had not had that little clutch problem with his Ferrari 250 GT, and maybe if the problem had been solved to his satisfaction, and maybe if a heated Lamborghini had not run face-first into an insulted Enzo Ferrari that day in 1961, then maybe – just maybe – the red bull wouldn’t snort today.
Perhaps it would still plow: the first Lamborghini was a tractor, after all.