Enzo Ferrari

Enzo Ferrari

Enzo Anselmo Giuseppe Maria Ferrari, (Italian: [ˈɛntso anˈsɛlmo ferˈraːri]; 20 February 1898 – 14 August 1988) was an Italian motor racing driver and entrepreneur, the founder of the Scuderia Ferrari Grand Prix motor racing team, and subsequently of the Ferrari automobile marque. He was widely known as "il Commendatore" or "il Drake". In his final years he was often referred to as "l'Ingegnere" (the Engineer) or "il Grande Vecchio (the Great Old Man)".

They are cars which the sporting client can use on the road during the week and race on Sundays.
Ferrari in 1920

Quotes

  • Il secondo è il primo dei perdenti. (Second place is the loser.)
  • They are cars which the sporting client can use on the road during the week and race on Sundays.
    • As quoted by Quentin Wilson, Great Car (New York: Dorling Kindersley Publishing, 2001), 1st American edition, p. 232
  • His death has deprived us of a great champion - one that I loved very much. My past is scarred with grief; parents, brother, son. My life is full of sad memories. I look back and see the faces of my loved ones, and among them I see him.
    • Ferrari's response to the death of famed racing driver Gilles Villeneueve in 1982, as quoted by Gerald Donaldson in Gilles Villeneuve: The Life of the Legendary Racing Driver (1989), p. 322
  • I had deluded myself - as fathers often do - that our attentions would help [Dino] to regain his health. I had convinced myself that [Dino] was like one of my cars, and so I made a table of the calorific values of the various food he had to eat - types of food that would not harm his kidneys - and I kept an up-to-date daily record of his albumins, of the specific gravity of his urine, the level of urea in his blood, of his diuresis, etc., so I would have an indication of the process of the disease. The sad truth was quite different: my son was gradually wasting away with progressive muscular dystrophy. He was dying of that terrible disease which no one has ever been able to understand or cure, and against which there is no defense, aside from genetic prophylaxis (i.e. a medication or a treatment designed and used to prevent a disease from occurring).
    • As quoted by Gino Rancati, Enzo Ferrari: The Man (1988), p. 87-88

Quotes about Ferrari

  • One day in Modena I was entering a restaurant when I recognized Ferrari sitting at one of the tables. As I passed I tried to greet him, but he turned his head away and pretended to be talking to the person next to him. He was ignoring me! I used to have contact with Adolfo and Omer Orsi of Maserati, Renzo Rivolta of ISO, even Alejandro de Tomaso. But Ferrari never spoke to me again. He was a great man, I admit, but it was so very easy to upset him.
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