Ferrari people

Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 26. Chapters: Enzo Ferrari, Ross Brawn, Jean Todt, Nigel Stepney, Giotto Bizzarrini, Luca Cordero di Montezemolo, John Barnard, Rory Byrne, Marco Piccinini, Rob Smedley, Peter Sutcliffe, Enrique Scalabroni, Cesare Fiorio, Carlo Chiti, Mauro Forghieri, Jason Castriota, Chris Dyer, Roberto Lippi, Stefano Domenicali, Vittorio Jano, Gustav Brunner, Gilles Simon, Gioacchino Colombo, Attilio Marinoni, George Ryton, Aurelio Lampredi, Nicholas Tombazis, Luca Baldisserri, Aldo Costa, Dario Benuzzi, Mario Almondo, Alfredo Ferrari, Luca Marmorini, Paolo Martinelli, Giuseppe Busso, Giovanni Volpi, Franco Cortese, Claudio Lombardi, Alberto Massimino, Piero Ferrari. Excerpt: Enzo Anselmo Ferrari (pronounced ) (February 18, 1898 - August 14, 1988) Cavaliere di Gran Croce OMRI was an Italian race car driver and entrepreneur, the founder of the Scuderia Ferrari Grand Prix motor racing team, and subsequently of the Ferrari car manufacturer. He was often referred to as "il Commendatore" Drivers Enzo Ferrari (1st from left), Tazio Nuvolari (4th) and Achille Varzi (6th) of Alfa Romeo with Alfa Romeo Managing Director Prospero Gianferrari (3rd) at Colle MaddalenaBorn in Modena, Enzo Ferrari grew up with little formal education but a strong desire to race cars. During World War I he was assigned to the third Alpine Artillery division of the Italian Army. His father Alfredo, as well as his older brother, also named Alfredo, died in 1916 as a result of a widespread Italian flu outbreak. Ferrari became severely ill himself in the 1918 flu pandemic and was consequently discharged from Italian service. Upon returning home he found that the family firm had collapsed. Having no other job prospects, Ferrari eventually settled for a job at a smaller car company called CMN (Costruzioni Meccaniche Nazionali), redesigning used truck bodies into small passenger cars. He took up racing in 1919 on the CMN team, but had little initial success. He left CMN in 1920 to work at Alfa Romeo and racing their cars in local races he had more success. In 1923, racing in Ravenna, he acquired the Prancing Horse badge which decorated the fuselage of Francesco Baracca's (Italy's leading ace of WWI) SPAD S.XIII fighter, given from his mother, taken from the wreckage of the plane after his mysterious death. This icon would have to wait until 1932 to be displayed on a racing car. It is interesting to note that the Ferrari emblem matches that of the city of Stuttgart and is identical to the center of the Porsche emblem. In 1924 Ferrari won the Coppa Acerbo at Pescara. His successes in local races encouraged Alfa to offer him a chance of much more prestigious competition. Ferrari