Count Volpi on Enzo "copying" his Cooper rear-engine

Count Volpi sent me an email relating the following story. He gave permission to share the email on FerrariChat. Perhaps this should be in Racing, but it seems more of general Ferrari interest than just racing.
CDM

The Toyota Case

In the fall of 2004 the Maranello people were beside themselves squealing that one of their engineers had moved to Toyota and had copied their aerodynamics. It must also be said that this complaint vanished from the press soon after it appeared.

This (news) threw me back in time:

Towards the end of ’59 or the beginning of 1960 I went with Enzo Ferrari to the Modena track to observe the trials of the new Testa Rossa. Jean Behra was driving, if I recall.

While the car was going round I asked Ferrari why he wasn’t yet making rear engined cars [given the trouncing by the British ‘garage mechanics’]. His answer is famous to all: “One doesn’t put the oxes behind the cart.” I said that, however, traction was in the rear. He feigned not to hear.

Some time later, a Cooper-Monaco I had sent hill-climbing returned quite bent by a tree. A few weeks later, (Enzo) Ferrari, all kindness and solicitude, called me saying more or less: “I heard about your Cooper’s misadventure, you are just beginning (Serenissima Race Team) and must be encouraged …etc. I would like to repair it for you, free of charge, it keeps the workers busy.” Less than an hour later his car-carrier arrived to pick up. Two weeks later it brought it back spotless, newer than new.

Soon enough the first Ferrari rear-engine formula car was brought by a stork; the same car Richie Ginther inaugurated at Monte Carlo. They had copied to the letter (Half of Modena was in stitches laughing. Witnesses: Gerolamo Gardini, Bizzarrini, Chiti and others), and there is nothing wrong with that. In the 19th century the Germans copied almost everything from the British, bettering, and so on until the Japanese who also seem to improve things … waiting for the Chinese.

Anyhow, now that Toyotas (without M. Schumacher) are more often than not faster than Ferraris, how are things explained in Maranello?