With the help of a friend and on the strength of his growing reputation as a driver, he eventually landed to a seat on the Alfa Romeo team and Ferrari got off to a good start, finishing second in 1920 in the difficult Targa Florio in Sicily.
Enzo Ferrari had founded Scuderia Ferrari in 1928 in Maranello, Italy, and the team quickly became noted for its racing cars.
After having worked at Alfa Romeo for 10 years, during which he ran the company’s racing department under Scuderia Ferrari banner, Enzo Ferrari left Portello in 1939 due to continual disagreements with the directorship, in particular the new technical boss, Spaniard Wilfredo Ricart.
Enzo Ferrari’s separation terms for Alfa Romeo prohibited him from building a car bearing his name for four years. Therefore his new car which was built in 1939 named Auto Avio Costruzione.
The first race car was built in the old Scuderia Ferrari workshop in Modena. In 1945 Enzo Ferrari began to warm the idea of building a car that would finally carry his own name.
A good ‘agitator of men’, as he liked to define himself, Ferrari resumed contact with some his Alfa colleagues, including technician Giuseppe Busso, test driver Luigi Bazzi and designer Gioachino Colombo.
On May 11, 1947, the very first car bearing the Ferrari name appeared in public in Italy.
By 1948, the Ferrari factory was producing a small number of twelve-cylinder competition models.
Throughout the 1970s and 1980s, Ferrari continued to build on the company’s reputation as the most exclusive sports car manufacturer in the world.
The last car create under Ferrari’s control was the F40. Ferrari died at the age of 90.
History of Ferrari
