ENZO Ferrari

Enzo Ferrari the Man

Enzo Ferrari lived a comfortable life before going on a successful racing career. He also founded and ran one of the most successful racing championship teams in history, as well as one of the world’s most well-known sports car companies.

The formal name of Enzo Anselmo is Enzo Anselmo. Giuseppe Maria Ferrari was born in 1889 in Modena, Italy, and got little formal education. When he was eleven years old, he was motivated to become a racing driver after watching Felice Nazzaro’s triumph at the 1908 Circuito di Bologna.

Ferrari also hoped to be an opera singer, but the flu deaths of his father and brother in 1916 pushed him to mature quickly, and he left out of school to serve as an instructor for Modena’s fire department workshop.

Enzo served in the Italian Army’s 3rd Mountain Artillery Regiment during World War I. He became critically ill during the 1918 flu pandemic and was discharged from the Italian Army.

In 1920, Enzo joined Alfa Romeo’s racing department as a driver, and in 1923, he won his first Grand Prix at Ravenna on the Savio circuit.

After the birth of his son Alfredo (Dino) in 1932, Ferrari elected to retire from racing and focus on the management and development of Alfa race cars, establishing a race team of superstar drivers. This team was known as Scuderia Ferrari (founded by Enzo Ferrari in 1929) and functioned as Alfa Romeo’s racing division. The prancing horse emblem began to emerge on his team’s vehicles about this period.

In his later years, Enzo Ferrari technically stepped down as president in 1977, yet he kept actual corporation control. On August 14, 1988, Ferrari died in Maranello, shortly after receiving an honorary degree in physics from the University of Modena. During his career, his cars won around 4,000 races and 13 world championships. In recognition of his accomplishments, he was inducted into the International Motorsports Hall of Fame in 1994.