• Henry Ford’s Most Famous Quote About Racing Is Flat-Out Wrong

    Henry Ford’s Most Famous Quote About Racing Is Flat-Out Wrong

    “Auto racing began 5 minutes after the second car was built” is a sentence that most racing fans have heard at least once during their lives. It is usually evoked to illustrate humanity’s innate competitiveness and how racing was a natural use for automobiles. The quote is widely attributed to Henry Ford, except there is…