La Storia siamo Noi: Enzo Ferrari (ENG SUB)

Anselmo Giuseppe Maria Ferrari (18 February 1898 – 14 August 1988) 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.

The founder of the world's most prestigious car factory was always very attached to his city, where he lived right up until his death in 1988. His childhood dream came true and he became a racing driver, first privately and then as a member of the Alfa Romeo team. He was interested in everything: racing, organisation, relationships with the suppliers. His destiny of car maker was already clear.

Ferrari decided to retire from competition after the birth of his first child: running the racing section of Alfa Romeo, he set up the Scuderia Ferrari in Modena. In 1939 Ferrari started up his own car building business with the company Auto Avio Costruzioni, which took on the name Ferrari after the Second World War. The factory was built in Maranello, 15 Km from Modena. It was in 1947 that a Ferrari (Model 125) made its first appearance on a racing track. At its second, in Rome, the driver Franco Cortese drove his Ferrari to its first victory.

The rest belongs to history: nine world titles in the Formula 1 Championship, fourteen in the Prototype Sport World Championship and more than five thousand victories in top-class racing competitions. These victories, the splendid car models and the figure of Enzo Ferrari himself have become a legend which has conquered the world.

He was widely known as il Commendatore or il Drake, a nickname given by British opponents in reference to the English privateer Francis Drake, due to Ferrari's demonstrated ability and determination in achieving significant sports results with his small company. In his final years, he was often referred to as l'Ingegnere ("the Engineer"), il Grande Vecchio ("the Grand Old Man"), il Cavaliere ("the Knight"), il Mago ("the Wizard"), and il Patriarca ("the Patriarch").