![]() ![]() In the 1990s things looked good for Ferrari in Formula One. But things got rough for the Prancing Horse, like when Carroll Shelby brought his Cobra to European race tracks. The '60s started out pretty good for Ferrari: Phil Hill won the Formula 1 championship in 1961 using a 1.5-liter V6 race car nicknamed "Dino." It was the era of the sexy, swooping 250 Testa Rossa. In 1951, a Ferrari 375 brought the team its first victory - over Alfa Romeo, no less. Every time a race car was improved, the road car was the beneficiary. During the 1950s, Ferrari had legendary engineers like Lampredi and Jano on the payroll, and bodies designed by the legendary Pinin Farina. Post-war racing was Ferrari's finest hour on the track. In 1945, Ferrari began work on the 12-cylinder engine the company would be famous for, and in 1947, Enzo Ferrari drove the first 125 S out of the factory gates. ![]() Ferrari moved from Modena to Maranello during the war. ![]() That wasn't so bad WWII curtailed racing for most of those four years anyway. When Enzo Ferrari left Alfa Romeo, he agreed to not use his name in connection with racing for four years. He left Alfa (or was dismissed) for the last time in 1939. After 10 years on his own, though, working for someone else proved difficult. In 1938, Alfa took its racing program in-house, and Enzo Ferrari went with it. Race cars came to the Scuderia from Alfa for tuning for almost a decade, and the Ferrari shop in Modena built its first car, the Alfa Romeo 158 Grand Prix racer, in 1937. Scuderia Ferrari did not race cars with the Ferrari name, though the Alfas they used on the track did sport the prancing horse. In 1929, Enzo Ferrari left Alfa Romeo's employment to start his own racing stable (scuderia in Italian). That was until 1938, when he was hired by Alfa Romeo to head their motor racing department. When he initially started Ferrari it was built to prepare, and successfully race, various drivers in Alfa Romeo. He had no interest in the idea of producing road cars. Contents: Formula One / Formula 2 / XX & Specials / Challenge / Sports Cars & GTs Every Ferrari Race Car Ever MadeĮnzo Ferrari wanted to race. ![]()
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