Empire Builders · EB-037
HE WAS HIRED ON TUESDAY. THE PRIORITIES WERE TYPED ON HIS CONTRACT. ROAD CARS CAME SECOND.
In April 1959, Marco Bellini signed a contract stating that all profits from road car production were to fund the racing program. Thirty-one years later, he discovered that the racing program had been losing money for fourteen years, while road cars kept the entire company alive.
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