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FORMULA 1
HISTORY OF SCUDERIA FERRARI
Scuderia Ferrari’s history truly
begins not long after Enzo
Ferrari was born in 1898.
Imagine a little ten year old
boy attending his first race
with his Papa and brother
in 1908: it was the Coppa Fiorio, near
Bologna and that’s when the eventual
Ferrari founder Enzo Ferrari’s passion was
fired and he starting dreaming of racing
himself. His opportunity came after the
First World War when he joined a small car
factory called CMN in Milan — also with
stints as a test driver.
He pursued his dream and entered his first
race the Parma-Poggio Berceto in 1919, and
four years later he courageously won the
Circuito del Savio. This was when war hero
Francesco Baracca’s mother entrusted him
with the iconic Prancing Horse emblem.
It took Enzo about another decade until
1929 to realize the next part of his dream
and have Scuderia Ferrari formally hatch
itself. Ferrari having been invited to the
celebrations for the world speed record
set in Cremona by Baconin Borzacchini,
and needing finance and partners took
the opportunity to pow wow with Alfredo
Caniato and Mario Tadini and laid the firm
foundations for the Scuderia.
The next month, with the aid of Modena notary
Alberto Della Fontana, and with finance
secured principally from Tadini, Scuderia Ferrari
was founded essentially first to buy and
race Alfa Romeos. The company, under the
chairmanship of Mario Tadini, also included
Enzo Ferrari, Alfredo and Augusto Caniato
and Enzo’s photographer friend Ferruccio
Testi as well as Alfa Romeo racing cars, Pirelli
tires and fuel from Shell.
It was a visionary and creative move that
presaged the age of modern motor-racing
sponsorship. Ferrari became a powerful new
force, part acting as broker and trusted by
the car manufacturers to be a catalyst and
outsourcer for them in order to grow the
motor-racing business itself — an activity
that previously had mostly been undertaken
by themselves. Scuderia Ferrari with their
expert knowhow and mechanics became a
magnet for new drivers and sponsors.
FERRARI RACING MACHINES
It wasn’t until 1939 that Enzo Ferrari began
to build sports cars of his own. From
then the Prancing Horse’s stunning racing
history speaks for itself. Enzo Ferrari will
Enzo Ferrari,
the founder of
the Scuderia
Ferrari Grand
Prix motor
racing team
Ferrari’s 125 S, first car model, entering the historical gate to Ferrari’s
establishments in Maranello, in 1947
go down in history for his vision and for not
least in having created what has been ranked
as the most mighty brand image in the world.
He received a lot of international and Italian
awards including the Columbus Prize, the
Hammarskjöld Prize by the United Nations,
the Gold Medal for Culture and Art, the honorary
title of Cavaliere di Gran Croce della
Repubblica Italiana etc. The University of
Modena conferred Enzo Ferrari with an Honorary
Degree in Physics. He also was posthumously
inducted into the International Motorsports
Hall of Fame and the Automotive
Hall of Fame.
Scuderia Ferrari was a competitor in the first
Formula One Championship in 1950 — and
it’s the only team to have competed in every
season of the Formula One World Championships.
It’s without any doubt the most successful
F1 team having broken a lot of motorsport
records. Two of the many memorable
landmark wins: first, the 1981 Monaco Grand
Prix where Gilles Villeneuve proved himself,
achieving a breathtaking victory and making
the cover of Time. And second, the incredible
100th win by Ferrari in 1990 with Alain Prost
in the French Formula 1 Grand Prix.
MICHAEL SCHUMACHER
AND CHARLES LECLERC
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Enzo Ferrari, in the
1920s
Scuderia Ferrari’s most successful driver
has been Michael Schumacher, winning
72 Grand Prix races and 5 drivers’
titles during his time with the team. Currently,
the two primary drivers for Scuderia
Ferrari are the exciting new Monegasque
driving ace Charles Leclerc and veteran winner
of four World
Championships,
Sebastian Vettel.
Call it Destiny —
Charles Leclerc
will already forever
be a part of
Ferrari’s history,
not solely because of the Monegasque
driver’s startling acceleration in 2019 from
rookie number 2 driver to competing on
equal terms with multiple world champion
driving ace Sebastian Vettel.
Divine providence struck during the year of
the 90th anniversary celebrations. Charles
Leclerc’s victory at Monza, the flagship
Italian Grand Prix in 2019 and pride of all
Italians was perhaps the greatest emblematic
win in the 90th anniversary year of
Ferrari. And he did it in the Ferrari SF 90,
the racing machine dedicated to Ferrari’s
90th anniversary.
CHARLES LECLERC’S 90TH
BIRTHDAY GIFT TO FERRARI
Ferrari had been waiting for a victory on
home turf at Monza for as many as nine
years! Leclerc pulled off that miracle
with Hamilton breathing down his neck and
after holding off both the Mercedes’ drivers
in one of the great races of 2019.
It even eclipsed Schumacher’s win when he
too won at Monza in his first visit with the
Ferrari team in 1996. Charles’ wins during
the 2019 season make him the 39th driver
to have won world championship races for
Ferrari, but the word is that a racing driver
like him arrives on the scene only once
every ten years. We can’t wait to see the
future unfold.
We have seen 90 years. One more decade
will see 100 years. Monegasque Charles
Leсlerc is already forever associated with
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