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FERRARI: Enzo Ferrari

Ferrari Models: 1940-60   1960-70   1970-80   1980-90   1990 -   Formula 1
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Enzo Ferrari (1898 - 1988)

Feb 18 1898
  • date of birth, Modena Italy
1918
  • test driver in Turin
1920 -39
  • joins Alfa Romeo racing in 1920
  • test driver
  • racing driver
  • 2nd in Targa Florio endurance race, 1920
  • Scuderia(Team) Ferrari formed in 1929 after Alfa withdraws from racing
  • Scuderia Ferrari with designer Vittorio Jano built Alfa cars for the racing division of Alfa
  • Director of the Alfa Racing Division
1940
  • forms "Auto Avio Costruzioni Ferrari" company
1943
  • Ferrari workshop moved from Modena to Maranello
1946
  • first real Ferrari car
1960
  • FIAT takes 50% ownership
1963
  • forms "Istituto Professionale per l'Industria e l'Artigianato" a training school in Maranello
1969
  • Ferrari sold to FIAT
1972
  • Fiorano test track built
1988
  • Enzo Ferrari died in Modena at the age of 90


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