10 things about Enzo Ferrari and his alien cars

Genius. Constructor. Mechanic. Driver. I can. Fighter. Garbage. The embodiment of your own quote "What you can dream, you can do".

1. IMAGINATION WORKS ALL

Enzo Ferrari started his career as a race driver at the age of 20, although at the age of ten he dreamed of sitting behind the wheel of a car and running in a race. To achieve that - Enzo had to survive the First World War, lose his father and brother in the flu epidemic of 1918, and fight alone with the same disease, which at that time cut everything in front of him.

Enco first drove for the team at CMN, a small car maker that had its own racing team. He continued his career at Alfa Romeo as a racing mechanic.

2. WHEN YOU WIN Hitler's Team

At the very beginning of his career at Alfa Romeo, Enco has formed its own Ferrari Scuderia team. From scratch, Enco created a strong team with even stronger cars that in 1929 was ready for absolute domination in the world.

This was confirmed the very next year when they stood side by side with Mercedes and Auto Union. Five years later, at the Grand Prix of Germany, the Skaderia Ferrari defeated these two racing giants.

3. Crazy Experiments

While at Alpha, Ferrari experimented with fairly radical design solutions, including a car with two eight-cylinder engines: one in the front and one in the back.

Although a beast named Alpha Bimotore, in 1935, it could develop speeds of over 300 kilometers per hour, due to instability and poor maneuverability, especially in turns, it never came to life.

4. SIGN "STOLEN" FROM THE PLANE

It is little known that the black horse is rising - a symbol that comes from the plane of the Italian air ace from the First World War, Francesca Baraca. It was Baraka who was piloting a plane with a rising horse on its side, surrounded by a yellow shield. A few years after Baraka's death, Enzo saw his mother, who told him to put a horse on his insanely fast cars for good luck. Photo: Wikipedia, The plane from which the sign was "stolen"
By the way, the first plane that Francesco Baraka shot down was a German biplane that he defeated over Stuttgart, in which the Porsche was created. Stuttgart and Porsche also have a saddled horse on their coats of arms.

5. FASCISTS MAKE THIS MANUFACTURER

The fact is that the Benito Mussolini regime has made a serious producer since Ferrari, who left Alfa in 1938, dissatisfied with their behavior towards him and his team. He was barred from using the Ferrari name and horse logo for four years.

That is why he opened the company AAC (Auto Avio Construzioni), which, like everyone else at the time, was forced to work for the "war effort" by the fascists. That gave Enzo enough money to start building an automobile empire with him.

At that time, the Tipo 815 was created, the first true Ferrari, which, in fact, bore the AAC mark.

By the way, Ferrari is known to be reluctant to make cars for mass use at the very beginning, when its first factory in Modena was destroyed in the bombing.

He then moved supplies to Maranelo, where he survived another complete destruction of the plant, after which his associates asked him to build a factory for the production of cheap cars, which would be a source of money for serious production. With heavy pain he agreed.

6. THE BEST AND BEST FARMS

The 1954 model 212 Export was certainly proclaimed the ugly duckling of this manufacturer. And only because his shell was redesigned by British (now long gone) manufacturer Abbott.

The most beautiful Ferrari of all time is certainly a model from the 1950 Testaros.

Due to the rapid technological progress and the wave of fashion - Testarosa was declared obsolete, so in the 5.000s you could buy it for less than $ 40.000, which objectively - is not so small (almost $ 10 for a XNUMX-year-old car). But one is Ferrari…

7. REBELLION FROM WOMAN

Enzo Ferrari was left without several top managers in 1961. The reason for the rebellion was Laura, his wife, who, according to many, played too big a role in the company.

The men's vanity did not suit the woman's determination of salaries, running a racing team and design bureau, or overseeing prototype development.

That's why some of the best Italian cars of the 60's were created without the sign of Ferrari: Bizarini 5300GT, 250 GTO, and many others.

8. LONG LIST OF Enemies

Because of his sharp tongue, British mind, business ability and fantastic design, Enzo Ferrari never lacked an enemy:

Henry Ford II was the most powerful. He even wanted to buy a Ferrari, but negotiations broke down after 11 o'clock, when Enc didn't like the intended role on the racing team.

Even Ferucho Lamborghini did not like Ferrari. He had a good reason for this: When Lamborghini (at the time a manufacturer of tractors and similar work machines) drove his Ferrari 250 GT to regular service, he saw that the transmission had the same solution as the one he had in his tractors.

Lamborghini asked Ferrari to change the solution of the gearbox, to which he replied: "You are a stupid tractor manufacturer, what do you know about sports cars."

The boiling Italian blood worked: Lamborghini spat at Ferrari's feet (which is an insult), turned around and started making his luxury cars.

Still, Carol Shelby is the man who hated Ferrari the most. Although he often drove the Italian stallion himself, he claimed that Enco contributed to the deaths of several drivers, including Luigi Muso, Shelby's friend. Due to this hostility, Cobra Dayton, one of Shelby's best sports cars, was created.

9. ENCO LOVED DRIVERS

His obsessive passion for proving and competing at times may have embarrassed him, but it certainly gave strength to many. He often made provocations and forced his team members to constantly brainstorm and prove themselves.

Ferrari, to that extent, adored drivers, that they had the status of demigods at his company. When Jules Villeneuve died in Formula 1 Enzo Ferrari, the constructor was in mourning for a long time, and until his death, all of Ferrari's offices featured his joint painting with Villeneuve.

10. PAPER LIGHTS

Believe it or not, the Vatican also had its Ferrari. It is an Enco Ferari model (pictured above), designed in Pinifarin's studio, and made in only 2002 copies from 2009 to 400. The sale (priced at $ 659,330) was intended for 399, while the 400th was donated to the Holy See for humanitarian purposes.