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Enzo Ferrari
Enzo Anselmo Giuseppe Maria Ferrari was an Italian racing driver and entrepreneur, the founder of Scuderia Ferrari in Grand Prix motor racing, and subsequently of the Ferrari automobile marque. Under his leadership in Formula One, Ferrari won nine World Drivers' Championships and eight World Constructors' Championships during his lifetime.
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business · Italian racing driver, engineer and entrepreneur (1898–1988) · entrepreneur · racing automobile driver · industrialist · also Enzo Ferrari, Il Commendatore, Enzo Anselmo Giuseppe Maria Ferrari, Ferrari
Born 18 February 1898 · Died 14 August 1988 · Q181282
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2026· 3 entries
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2024· 1 entry
Yahoo! Sports: How Enzo Ferrari Created the Greatest Racing Team in Motorsport History
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2023· 3 entries
autoevolution: Enzo Ferrari's Son Says What's True and What's Fake in Biopic About His Father
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Yahoo: Enzo Ferrari’s Net Worth: Who Inherited His Fortune After He Died
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Sports Illustrated: F1 News: Ferrari Expands Maranello Factory Whilst Honouring Founder Enzo Ferrari's Legacy
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2002· 1 entry
Ferrari began production of the Ferrari Enzo, named after its founder
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1998· 1 entry
Tavoni declared in an interview that he and the remainder of Ferrari's senior figures did not leave on their initiative, but were ousted following a disagreement with Ferrari over the role of his wife in the company
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1991· 1 entry
According to Brock Yates' 1991 book Enzo Ferrari: The Man and the Machine, Ferrari married to keep up appearances for the sake of his career, as divorce was frowned upon in the predominantly Catholic Italy, and sought sexual conquests not so much for pleasure but for the gratification of his ego.
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1988· 3 entries
Died 1988-08-14.
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“Among musicians, I had a true friend, Maestro Cantelli. He was a young man of particularly noble sentiments.”
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“They are cars which the sporting client can use on the road during the week and race on Sundays.”
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1985· 1 entry
But the team would not see championship glory again before Ferrari's death in 1988
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1983· 1 entry
With driver René Arnoux in contention for the championship until the very last race
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1982· 2 entries
When he went to Paris to broker a compromise between the warring FISA and FOCA parties
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The second turbo-powered Ferrari, the 126C2, showed great promise
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1981· 1 entry
Ferrari attempted to revive his team's fortunes by switching to turbo engines
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1979· 1 entry
The team experienced a disastrous 1980 campaign
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1978· 1 entry
Ferrari and Laura remained married until her death in 1978.
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1977· 1 entry
Ferrari was criticized in the press for replacing World Champion Lauda with newcomer Gilles Villeneuve
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1974· 2 entries
Ferrari appointed Luca Cordero di Montezemolo as Sporting Director/Formula One Team manager
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While Niki Lauda won the championship in 1975 and 1977
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1969· 2 entries
Fiat increased its holding to 50% of the company
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Ferrari sold 50% of his company to Fiat S
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1964· 1 entry
Following a tense battle with Jim Clark and Graham Hill
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1963· 1 entry
For US$18 million ($189,293,478 in 2025 dollars ) but, late in negotiations, Ferrari withdrew once he realized that Ford would not agree to grant him independent control of the company racing department
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1962· 1 entry
The Columbus Prize in 1965, and the De Gasperi Award in 1987
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1961· 3 entries
“a man should always have two wives”
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Ferrari supported Bologna-based publisher Luciano Conti's decision to start a new publication, Autosprint
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When he was dating three women simultaneously, he wrote, "I am convinced that when a man tells a woman he loves her, he only means that he desires her and that the only perfect love in this world is that of a father for
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1953· 1 entry
Ferrari made his only attempt at the Indianapolis 500, but the car driven by Ascari crashed on lap 41 of the race
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1952· 3 entries
To add to his honours of Cavaliere and Commendatore in the 1920s
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Ferrari was made a Cavaliere del Lavoro in 1952, to add to his honours of Cavaliere and Commendatore in the 1920s.
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With Alberto Ascari, a task that was repeated one year later
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1950· 1 entry
Ferrari enrolled in the newly born Drivers World Championship and is the only team to remain continuously present since its introduction
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1948· 1 entry
And the first win came later in the year in Lago di Garda
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1939· 1 entry
And founded Auto-Avio Costruzioni, a company supplying parts to other racing teams
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1937· 1 entry
Scuderia Ferrari was dissolved and Ferrari returned to Alfa's racing team, named "Alfa Corse"
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1935· 1 entry
When Tazio Nuvolari beat Rudolf Caracciola and Bernd Rosemeyer on their home turf at the German Grand Prix
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1933· 1 entry
And Alberto Ascari in 1955, both of whom he had a strong personal relationship with, he chose not to get too close to his drivers out of fear of emotionally hurting himself
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1932· 3 entries
And groomed as Enzo's successor, suffered from ill-health and died from muscular dystrophy in 1956
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Ferrari and Laura's one son, Alfredo "Dino", who was born in 1932 and groomed as Enzo's successor, suffered from ill-health and died from muscular dystrophy in 1956.
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Ferrari decided to retire and form a team of superstar drivers, including Giuseppe Campari and Tazio Nuvolari
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1923· 1 entry
And Antonio Ascari in 1925, Ferrari, by his admission, continued to race half-heartedly
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1920· 1 entry
Ferrari joined the racing department of Alfa Romeo as a driver
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1916· 1 entry
As a result of a widespread Italian flu outbreak
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1898· 1 entry
Born 1898-02-18.
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