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The life Enzo Ferrarii
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The birth of a racer!
Ferrari was born on 18 February 1898 in Modena, Italy. He was the youngest of two children to Alfredo and Adalgisa Ferrari. Enzo grew up with little formal education. Alfredo Senior was the son of grocer from Carpi and started a workshop fabricating metal parts at the family home. -
Ferrari's Insperation
at age 10 Enzo ferrari sees Felice Nazzaro's win at the 1908 Circuit di Bologna, an event that inspired him to work with race cars. -
Ferraris in world war one
During World War I he was assigned to the third Alpine Artillery division of the Italian Army. His father Alfredo, as well as his older brother, Alfredo Jr., died in 1916 as a result of a widespread Italian flu outbreak. Ferrari became severely sick himself in the 1918 flu pandemic and was consequently discharged from Italian service. -
Ferraris first race!
Following the family's carpentry business collapse, Ferrari started searching for a job in the car industry. He applied to work for Fiat but they declined him so he eventually settled for a job as a test driver at C.M.N An Italian car company that redesigned trucks into small passenger cars. he was soon promoted to race car driver for the company and represented them in the 1919 Parma-Poggio di Berceto hillclimb race, where he finished fourth in the three-litre category at the wheel of a 2.3-lit -
Ferrari gets promoted
In 1920 Ferrari left C.M.N. to race for Alfa Romeo. A well known race company at the time. -
Ferrari Marries
On the 28th of April 1923 Enzo Ferrari married Laura Dominica Garello and remained married until 1978 -
Recieving The prancing horse
In 1923 he received the Prancing Horse badge which decorated the fuselage of his former army buddy (and Italy's WWI leading ace) Francesco Baracca's SPAD S.XIII fighter from his mother. The badge had been taken from the wreckage of the plane after Baracca's mysterious death in 1918. Ferrari would later display the badge on his cars when he founded his own racing team in 1932. -
The Coppa Acerbo
In 1924 Ferrari won the Coppa Acerbo at Pescara, a success that encouraged Alfa Romeo to offer him a chance to race in much more prestigious competitions. But he turned down the offer so he could continue working at the development and production of the alpha factory cars. -
Alfredo "Dino" Ferrari
Alfredo Ferrari was Ferrari and his wifes only son together and was born in 1932 -
Sculderia Ferrari
Ferrari raced with with the group for 8 more years, then he left the group in 1932 to form his own race team wile still being a branching team from alfa romeo. it was called Sculderia Ferrari -
On His own
After ferrari created his own race team alpha romero continued to fund Ferrari's team untill 1933 when the company ran into financial struggles and disconected from Ferrari leaving there team on there own -
The 1935 German grand prix
After being disconected from Alpha Romeo Ferrari's team struggled with German companies Untill 1935 when Ferrari's racer;Tazio Nuvolari beat Rudolf Caracciola and Bernd Rosemeyer on their home turf at the German Grand Prix. -
Alpha Romeo comes back
in !937 Alpha Romeo wanted to regain full control of there racing team making Enzo Ferrari a sporting director, ferrai was unhappy with the agreement and left Alpha Romeo and founded his own company the Auto-Avio Costruzioni, a company supplying parts to other racing teams. aqlthough he coulden't race or design any cars for 4 years. -
WW2. The bombing of Ferrari's factory
With the outbreak of World War II in 1943, Ferrari's factory was forced to undertake war production for Mussolini's fascist government. Following Allied bombing of the factory, Ferrari relocated from Modena to Maranello. At the end of the conflict, Ferrari decided to start making cars bearing his name, and founded Ferrari S.p.A. in 1947. -
Ferrari's secet son
Ferrari had a second son in 1945 but divorce was Illegal at the time so he could not be anounced as his son until his wifes death. Peiro is currently vice president of Ferrari with 10% ownership. -
Ferrari S.p.A
In 1947 Enzo founded S,p.A And started using cars bearing his name (Ferrari) -
S.p.A's first win
The team's open-wheel debut took place in Turin in 1948 and the first win came later in the year in Lago di Garda. -
s.p.a's first major victory
The first major victory came at the 1949 24 Hours of Le Mans, with a Ferrari 166M driven by Luigi Chinetti. -
Formula 1
In 1950 Ferrari enrolled in the new formula 1 world championship and is the only team to remain prwesent since its introduction in 1950. Unfortunatly the S.p.a lost the race but was withen the top 10. -
Ferrari's first grand prix
Ferrari won his first Grand Prix with José Froilán González at Silverstone in 1951. -
Ferrari's first championship
The first championship came in 1952, with Alberto Ascari, a task that was repeated one year later. -
A tragic loss
Alfredo Ferrari grew ill and suffered from ill-health and died from muscular dystrophy in 1956. -
Tradgedy on the track
During the 1957 Mille Migia An accedent occured on the track when a Ferrari 335s driven by Alfonso de Portago was traveling at 250 km/h when it blew a tire and crashed into the roadside crowd, killing de Portago, his co-driver and nine spectators, five of whom were children. In response, Enzo Ferrari and Englebert, the tyre manufacturer, were charged with manslaughter in a lengthy criminal prosecution that was finally dismissed in 1961. -
The worlds most expensive car
In 1964 Ferrai designed the Ferrari 250 GTO, which in 2013 was sold for 36 million dollars at auction making it the most expensive car in the world. -
the "Dino" Ferrari
Ferrari names the 1970 car after his son who passed away at 14 years old. -
Financial struggles
By the end of the 1960s, increasing financial difficulties as well as the problem of racing in many categories and having to meet new safety and clean air emissions requirement for road car production and development, caused Enzo Ferrari to start looking for a business partner, someone who could fund his race team. -
Ferrari finds a buisness partner
In 1963 ferrari offered to sell his company to ford for 18 milion dollars but when realizing he would not remain in control of the racing team he withdrew his offer. But in 1969 he sold 50% of his company to FIAT with the exption that he remained in total control of his racing team and that FIAT would generously fund the team. (FIAT's holding rose to 90% in 1988) -
FIAT takes control
In 1971 Ferrari stepped down and let Fiat run the Roadcar portion of Ferrari (selling/designing sports cars) wile Ferrari focused on the racing portion. -
Stepping down
In 1974 Ferrari appointed Luca Cordero di Montezemolo as Sporting Director/Formula One Team manager. (Montezemolo eventually assumed the presidency of Ferrari in 1992, a post he held until September 2014). -
Widowed
Ferrari's wife passes away leaving him a widow. -
Turbo
In 1981 Ferrari wanted to revive there teams glory so he created the Ferari 126c2, which showed great promise but ended short with the death of one of the racers and violent accedent of another, when the car flipped over permenently restricting the racer from the season. -
Australia 1987
The last win That Ferrari saw was the at the 1987 finals in Australia with ferrari's racers scoring first and second place. -
The death of a racer
Enzo Ferrari died on the 14th of Augest 1988 at 90 years old. He witnessed the launch of the Ferrari F40, one of the greatest road cars at that time, shortly before his death, which was dedicated as a symbol of his achievements. In 2002 the first car to be named after him was launched as the Enzo Ferrari. The Italian Grand Prix was held just weeks after Ferrari's death, and the result was a 1–2 finish for Ferrari. -
Ferrari F40
The last Ferrari that Enzo saw released before his death. It was a symbol of all his accomplishments in his life. -
The Enzo Ferrari
In 2002 the japaneese designer Ken Okuyama anounced the Newest ferrari at the Paris motor show it was the Enzo ferrari. Originaly they anounced they were going to build 349 of the formula 1 type cars and all 349 were sold before they were even made. After numerous requests to build more Ferrari decided to make 50 more bringing the total of 399, Irt was first sold for a little over $600,000 but typicaly sells in auction for 1 million dollars. -
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