2.- Carrera y Alfa Romeo
3.- Creation of the "rampant cavallino"
4.- Death of Enzo Ferrari
5.- Ferrari, currently
1.- birth and family of Enzo Ferrari
In full name Enzo Anselmo Guiseppe Maria Ferrari , creator of the prestigious motorist brand "Ferrari" was born in the city of Modena, Italy in 1898. His family was made up of his parents Alfredo and Adalgisa, as well as an older brother. His father was responsible for directing a metal company, mainly railway which made him maintain a special passion with everything related to the car, so the influence he generated before Enzo.
2.- Carrera and Alfa Romeo
He studied at an engineering school but when his father and brother died during World War, he decided to leave the studies and seek employment. He participated as a firefighter until the end of 1918 in which he was called to collaborate with the militia and then work as a CMN test pilot. He was chosen by Alfa Romeo to be an image of his brand competing with the racing cars they made at that time.
After participating in different competitions, finally in 1923, Enzo managed to be crowned as number 1 in the Grand Prix held in Ravenna. This motivated him to continue competing and thus managed to position himself as the best pilot obtaining first place in 3 more competitions. By 1932, Enzo made the decision to withdraw,Enjoy their marriage and children and simply participate in the development of racing cars, so he proposed to Alfa Romeo to work with them as a designer and seller. He managed to create a team called " Scudería Ferrari ".
With the arrival of World War II, Alfa Romeo broke ties with Enzo and "Scudería Ferrari". This caused a pause in everything related to cars and races, causing Enzo to create "Auto Avio Costruzioni Ferrari" collaborating with the main Italian airlines. By 1947 Ferrari decided to return to the world of races and that was how he created the "Ferrari 125", with which he ran in Piacenza but failed a few laps to finish thanks to the breakage of one of the fuel pumps. This was the end of his pilot career.
3.- Creation of "Cavallino Rampante"
The origin of the famous Caballito de Ferrari dates back to the years of the First World War in which the Italian hero and aviator Francesco Baracca, had painted in the fuselage of the plane the iconic equine. This was a family badge. Enzo decided to use the horse after winning the Ravenas circuit in which he had the honor of meeting Enrico Baraccca , father of the late Francesco and his wife Paolina Bianncoli, who was the one who managed to convince Enzo to use it as an emblem in his team which would give him a lot of luck.
Over the years, Ferrari was modernizing and adapting the shield with the rampant cavallino, adding the red and yellow that had a relationship and meaning with the city where he was born andHe grew up, Modena. Little by little he was developing his company and working with the team, although it was not its main objective, Enzo had to start making tourism cars since its economy was being affected.
With this situation, Ferrari signed an agreement at 50% with Fiat for 1969. 19 years later, Fiat became the majority shareholder in this agreement.
4.- Death of Enzo Ferrari
From the age of 80, Enzo began to have difficulties in the kidneys and present a leukemia picture, the latter being the cause of his death in 1988, at 90 years of age.
5.- Ferrari, currently
Currently Ferrari's majority shareholders as a brand are Grupo Fiat, with 5% the 2 children of Enzo Ferrari and a last 5% to Arab Emirates.
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