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The shortened biography of Enzo Ferrari

For all the fascination about his name, Ferrari lived quite a normal life. He went into the same barber shop-the first one on the left-at 8:30 every morning for a shave. He ate lunch-Salsicce cotto or tortellini alla panna-with the same advisor at a private room at Il Cavallino, a restaurant he sat up in a farm building directly across from the factory gate in Maranello. He and his old friends talked about the things that are wrong with Il Canarini-the soccer team, had an evening card game, and the women who joined them for a drink but the life before this moment was a story worth to tell.

It was the turn of the 20th century and the invention of the automobile had inspired road racing fever all over Europe and America. Cars rushed along dirt and gravel roads covering as much as 145 miles sometimes at speeds as high as 50mph. It was this world into which Enzo Ferrari was born on February 18th 1898. His family home was on the Norther outskirts of Italy, a land crisscrossed by 100 years old family farms and graceful vineyards still famous for its Lambrusco wines and balsamic vinegars. Enzo´s father Alfredo was a structural metal contractor with his own business. His mother Adalgisa was a typical Italian homemaker who doted on both Enzo and his brother Dino who was 2 years older.

Family Background

His early family background was happy, very happy. He respected his father and adored and admired his older brother. The Ferrari home and business was on the outskirts of an ancient Roman city called Modena. The Ferraris lived upstairs in a small apartment and Alfredo´s workshop was downstairs where he sometimes employed as many as 20 workers. Alfredo intended for his sons to take over the family business one day but young Enzo wanted none of it. Instead he toyed around with the idea of being a journalist or even an opera singer. Then in 1908 when Enzo was 10 years old his father Alfredo took both his sons to their first automobile race. Enzo discovered the world of automobiles and speed. He saw Felice Nazzaro, the great 1907 Grand Prix winner for Fiat driving a Fiat at speed and he saw Vincenzo Lancia driving a Fiat at speed and he was absolutely entranced by it that to him was absolutely the epitome of bravura. In his eyes that was the life for a proper man. But Alfredo Ferrari had other plans for his boys. He sent them to a mechanical engineering trade school to prepare them to take over the family business. His brother Dino accepted his faith but Enzo perhaps something of a dreamer was utterly disinterested in schoolwork of any sort and flunked out. He had a lot of personality and was always dreaming about becoming a racing driver, he was just fascinated about risky jobs and risky sports. By the summer of 1914 when Enzo was 16 years old Italy was quickly being drawn into the 1st World War. The following year his brother Dino enlisted in the Italian army. He was sent to the front as an ambulance driver. Then in 1916 Enzo´s father died suddenly of pneumonia. Without Alfredo the once prosperous business soon collapsed. Then word came from the front that his brother Dino was dead of typhoid fever.

Beginnings

Within months Enzo Ferrari´s once predictable life seemed to be spinning out of control. He drifted from one menial job to another for more than a year. Finally in 1917 he was drafted into the army. When he appeared for duty he announced to his superiors that he was a skilled auto mechanic. Unimpressed, they assigned him to shoe the mules. Because he came from ordinary circumstances he was not taken seriously in the army, he had no privilege, he had no title and he had no family background that would permit him to be more than a simple soldier. Enzo soon contracted a pleurisy, a disease that was often fatal at the time. He eventually was transferred to a rundown hospice in Bologna where he was left to die with the other hopeless cases, waking up each morning to the hammering of coffin makers. Somehow by sheer grit or perhaps dumb luck he survived. Discharged from the army in 1918 at the age of 20 Ferrari was a broke young man, physically, mentally and emotionally. The following year a Great War came to an end, but Italy was in an economic freefall. In the chaos and disillusionment that followed Benito Mussolini and his black shirt fascists took over. Enzo Ferrari seemed disinterested in the politics of his country. His only concern was to regain the strength he lost during his illness and then somehow get on with his life. He soon managed to get a letter of recommendation from the colonel of his regiment. With that in hand he headed for Turin, the center of the Italian car industry. When Enzo arrived he immediately applied for work at one of Turin´s most prominent companies, Fiat. The automobile manufacturing giant owned by the wealthy Agnelli family. Ferrari proudly presented his letter but to the Fiat engineer who spoke with him the letter meant nothing. Ferrari was told that the city was awash in unemployed war veterans. There was no work. He wrote in his own autobiography how he sat on a park bench in Turin unemployed, lost, with his family gone, his father and older brother both dead, no job, no hope, absolutely in despair. That was a time when he just sat on a park bench and cried. Enzo Ferrari was not a man who suffered rejection easily. His grief and shame over Fiat´s refusal to hire him slowly turned to rage.

Racing Driver 

Far-fetched as it seems, Ferrari swore a vendetta against Fiat and the Agnelli´s. Somehow he would find a way to make them pay. At the end of the Great War, Enzo Ferrari surfaced in Turin, Italy ready to transform himself from a simple country boy into a racecar driver and maybe even a star. He had survived a life-threatening illness and had suffered rejection from the leading car manufacturer in the region. He simply refused to give up. Ferrari was a war lover, he loved the competition, he loved to battle and he loved the day-to-day struggle. He always answered the bell, he always was ready for the fight. The battleground Ferrari had chosen was the world of fast cars. Up to now the automobiles used for racing were simply modified passenger cars. The new technology used to power tanks, airplanes and trucks during the war was being tested on specially engineered racecars and it was all happening in Turin, where was a well-known restaurant in the center that was frequented by the local motor-trade and motor-industry where he got to know more and more people and became very friendly indeed with a slightly older test-driver and engineer Ugo Sivocci. Sivocci managed to get Enzo a job at one of the small Italian automakers, CMN. It was located in Milan, some 100 miles east of Turin. It was here that Ferrari bought his first car, a used Alfa Romeo that could race. At that period it was a crazy decision but he was so in love with cars that it really became a starting point for him. After seeing both Sivocci and Ferrari drive in several local races. Alfa´s team manager gave them a chance to drive racecars for Alfa Romeo´s team. He did race fairly actively from 1920 to 1924, but they were mostly minor races in Italy. Hill climbs, rallies and some small events but he was never able to attain the kind of stature that he wanted and sure dreamed of except his first win in a 225-mile race trough pine forests fringing Ravenna. It was one of a few stirring performances of his middling career as a driver. The crowd carried him on their shoulders after he crossed the finish line. Before returning to Modena he was introduced to Count Enrico Baracca, father of Francesco Baracca, a World War 1 pilot who shot down 34 planes before crashing to his death at the front. His emblem was a prancing horse, a cavallino rampante, painted on the side of his biplane. At a later meeting with Count Baracca´s wife she urged him Ferrari to adopt the emblem for good luck. Ferrari needed to find other ways to increase his income and his prestige. He convinced Alfa Romeo to use him as a sales agent, trading and selling their cars to private customers and delivering them personally. It was during this time that he met Laura Dominica Garello, a mysterious 21 year old woman that haunted the cafe´s frequented by the Turin racing crowd. She became a kind of grey eminence within the Ferrari story. Some say that she was from a quite wealthy family from Turin and some say quite the opposite, that she was a professional lady working the streets in Turin. Laura´s life before Enzo Ferrari is a mystery, it is known that she and Ferrari traveled the racing circuit as a couple and may have even lived together for several years. In 1923 they married in a small Catholic ceremony. Within months of his marriage, Enzo returned to living the high-life. Running around with the racecar groupies of the day. According to his old friends Ferrari was an incorrigible ladies’ man. He liked women and the more beautiful they were, the more he liked them. Enzo and his wife Laura did fight from the start. Their lives were further complicated when Enzo´s mother Adalgisa came to live with them. Adalgisa and Laura despised each other, the 2 women fought openly with Enzo often in the middle playing the referee. His mother was a little lady, but when she shouted “Enzo”, she was the only woman he would get up and run for.

Scuderia Ferrari

Enzo escaped his troubled home life by throwing himself into work. Alfa Romeo planned to debut a racecar called the p1 at the European Grand Prix in Monza. Enzo managed to convince Luigi Bazzi, one of the best engine technician on the racing circuit, to leave Fiat and come to work with him on the car. Ferrari, Ugo Sivocci, Luigi Bazzi and the Alfa racing team arrived just one day early for the European Grand Prix at Monza. It was a fast practice run, Sivocci was behind the wheel, he maneuvered the p1 around a sharp curve and it spun out. Sivocci was killed. Ferrari was shaken by the death of his friend, the man who helped him to gain entrance into the world of Motorsports. He knew that the p1 had somehow failed and needed to be re-engineered. At Bazzi´s suggestion Ferrari recruited another Fiat worker to join him at Alfa Romeo. Vittorio Jano, an engineer reputed to be a mechanical genius. Together Jano, Bazzi and Ferrari went to work to redesign the p1. Ferrari was not an engineer, nor a car designer but within months under relentless pressure from him Jano and Bazzi re-engineered the Alfa Romeo p1 into what they called the p2. At a competition at Cremona with a star driver Antonio Ascari behind the wheel the p2 clocked 121 Mph, set a lap record and won the race. Ferrari´s victory was a start of a winning streak that pushed Fiat and the Agnelli out of auto-racing for good. Enzo Ferrari, a country boy from Po Valley had made good on his Vendetta against one of the most prosperous companies in Italy, at least for the time being. But winning was only the first step, now Ferrari had to find a way to finance it. With the help of some rich investors he offered to strike a deal with the Alfa Romeo to take over their car racing business. He provided the drivers and Alfa provided the cars with any background technical assistance that they could. So they continued racing and it was great. On December 1st 1929 he opened the doors on what he called the Scuderia Ferrari, in English the Ferrari stable. The best stable of racing drivers and Alfa Romeo cars that would be re-engineered to Enzo Ferrari´s specifications. But at home his family life continued to disintegrate. In 1932, 10 years into their marriage, Laura gave birth to a son, they named him Dino. According to Ferrari´s memoirs Dino was a tall, dark-haired boy whom Ferrari hoped would replace him as a head of the Ferrari brand one day. But it was an unrealistic ambition since he was diagnosed with muscular dystrophy, an illness that would slowly destroy his central nervous system. The fact that Dino was ill almost from childhood was difficult for Enzo Ferrari. Brock Yates suggested in his book that the illness may have been transmitted by syphilis from Laura potentially being a prostitute when she met Ferrari. By 1939 there was a world war in Europe, Mussolini had Italy in a stranglehold.

World War 2

A new Alfa Romeo executive severed the relationship with Enzo Ferrari´s Scuderia. In order to survive Ferrari would collaborate with the Italian fascist party. It was 1940 and World War 2 was spreading it´s destruction all over Europe. The Italian economy was floundering, auto racing was suspended indefinitely. The Scuderia Ferrari factory sat idle. To survive financially Enzo transformed the old Scuderia Ferrari into a factory that produced equipment for the fascist Italian´s government war efforts. There are conflicting stories about what he manufactured, some say it was power grinding machines for ball bearings that may have been used in the production of war material, and others insist he made components for the line of machine guns used by the Italian army. He went with the tide as many did but he wasn´t ever signed up for the party since he was only wed to one political cause and that was what was good for Ferrari. In order to protect his factory from allied bombers the government ordered him to move it from Modena to safer grounds, he chose Maranello, a town 10 miles away. On a return trip to Modena Enzo met Lina Lardi, a 10 years younger secretary. At first she didn´t like him since he was a man who liked to show off. This was a relationship that very much affected his life, she was a lovely lady, very serene that brought a lot of peace and solitude to his life away from a very contentious situation in his own household. At 46 Enzo fell in love with Lina Lardy. Early the next year Enzo received the news that Lina was pregnant, she delivered a healthy baby boy 9 months later and named him Piero. Mother and son were sequestered in Lina´s small hometown of Castelvetro near Ferrari´s Maranello factory. Meanwhile in Modena Laura and Enzo celebrated his son Dino´s 13th birthday. The boy’s health continued to deteriorate. Ferrari fought very hard in later stages of Dino´s illness. He kept changing his diet and brought other medical treatments. He even sent Sergio Scaglietti out of the country to buy medicine for Dino. He brought various medicines to Ferrari.

Tipo 125

After the war ended the martial plan began to infuse millions of Yankee dollars into the suffering Italian economy. The weary Italian public was ready for automobile racing to resume, so was Enzo Ferrari. He began developing new racecars and in 1947 Ferrari produced a V12 1.5 liter racer called the Tipo 125. By Italian standards the engine was enormous. Ferrari loved engines and as he was concerned the engine was the be-all and end-all racing car. The chassis was just the necessary bracket to hold the wheels on and to put a pole in where the man went. On May 11th 1947 the Tipo 125, the first automobile to carry the name Ferrari competed at Piacenza, a smaller, less important competition. Enzo chose this race because he wanted to see what his car could do. Spectators lined the streets to get a look at Ferrari´s new machine, the Italian sporting press was on hand, even a few curious members of the Alfa Romeo design staff were there. Incredibly Enzo Ferrari failed to appear, in fact from that day forward he would never attend an auto race in which a Ferrari competed. He disliked all the fuss from the journalists and liked to stay quiet. He said that he didn´t attend the events because he didn´t think his nerves would stand it. It was a remarkable move, because it effectively added to the public image. During the first race at Piacenza with only 3 laps to go and the Tipo 125 in the front, the fuel pump broke and the car coasted to a stop far short of the finish line. Enzo took the loss in stride, he called his car a promising failure. And although he didn´t know it then the Tipo 125 marked the birth of the mythic Ferari car culture and empire. Enzo began assembling some of Europe´s most brilliant technicians and most celebrated drivers. He would develop some of the fastest racing cars the world had ever seen. A stable of racecar drivers would drive these automobiles in competition after competition and win again and again. He won practically everything, the only thing he didn´t win was Le Mans in the 50s, rest out was just Ferrari. Competing on the international racing circuit cost as much as a million dollars a year. Ferrari had to find a way to increase his cash flow. In the late 1940s a former Ferrari race driver named Luigi Chinetti convinced Ferrari to give him the exclusive rights to sell a line of expensive Ferrari road cars in America. They would be equipped with engines and chassis adapted for public road use. Ironically Ferrari had no interest in the road cars at all. They were simply a means to finance his car racing business. Ferrari would have been perfectly satisfied to just build his Grand Prix cars and try to make a living doing that. Outside of the business Ferrari maintained 2 households around 20 miles apart. Some nights he had supper with Laura and Dino at the family home in Modena, other nights he spent with Lina and Piero in Castelvetro. He spent a great deal of time with Lina and apparently doted on Piero and the double life seemed to work for a long period of time. It didn´t seem to complicate his business life at all.

Dino´s death

10 years passed as Ferrari lived this double life when on June 30th 1956 Dino Ferrari was 24 years old, he died at home in Modena bedridden with kidney failure. Ferrari tried to control his emotions, but for the rest of his life he visited Dino´s grave every morning before work and spoke aloud about everything to him. Enzo honored the memory of his son with the Dino Ferrari, a car that Dino helped to design. From that day on all of the V6 and some of the 8 cylinder Ferrari´s would bear the name Dino. The Dino had so many tragic aspects to it that made it special, it represents the baby that never got a chance to grow up. It is also believed that it was during this time that Ferrari´s wife Laura, whose only child was now dead, discovered Enzo´s secret life with his mistress and their 11 year old son. It was fairly difficult for the Ferrari and awful for Laura because essentially she lost control. If Laura´s discovery had an impact on her husband Enzo, no one knew. Nothing about his behavior showed Ferrari´s true feelings. Within a year of Dino´s death the racing business that Ferrari loved so passionately would slowly begin to unravel. There would be deadly accidents on the track, he would be charged with manslaughter. Charges that threatened to bury a legend. The death of Enzo Ferrari´s son sent him into an emotional tailspin. He immersed himself in his work at his office and in his factory with 1 singular purpose, to build even faster cars. The year was 1957, the race was the Mille Miglia, a wildly popular and horribly dangerous 1000 mile open road event. 5 Ferrari automobiles were among the 293 entries. He pulled together a superstar team including de Portago who was called in as the last minute replacement. Alfonso de Portago was a passionate Spaniard nobleman, a classic Ferrari driver who drove for the pure love of the sport. 10 million spectators lined the route that went through hairpin turns and narrow village streets. 1000s of police and army regulars would not be enough to keep them out of harm´s way. The fevered environment for this event was completely insane and the Italians loved it. Portago told his friend he didn´t want to drive in the Mille Miglia, that he felt it was too dangerous, that no driver could hope to know every turn, every possible road condition. But at 5:31 in the morning, when it was his turn to take off, Portago joined the 1000 mile battle driving the most powerful car in Ferrari´s stable, the 4.1 liter Tipo 335. Observers report that Portago´s Ferrari was rocketing at full throttle when he suddenly lost control of the car. It spun end-over-end into a ditch, then over the 1st row of spectators and into a pole. The impact sent shreds of steel into bystanders. 5 children, Portago, his navigator and 10 other adults were dead, dozens were injured. The headlines shouted at the public from the front pages of the Italian press demanding an end to the Mille Miglia. Ferrari was charged with manslaughter for allegedly using tires that were not capable of sustaining those speeds. The other 4 Ferrari cars that were in the race had won on the same tires, but the manslaughter trial went on for a number of years and affected Ferrari financially and it also certainly affected his reputation. It took 4 years of court appearances for the manslaughter charge to be dropped only to be followed by another calamity on the track in 1961 during the Italian Grand Prix.

The death of Von Trips

They´ve had Phil Hill and von Trips head-to-head for the Formula 1 world championship in the Italian Grand Prix at Monza and at the end of the second lap von Trips, very popular, lovely German driver collided with another car and his car was thrown into the crowd and killed 14 spectators, flopped back onto the road. While von Trips was thrown out into the track his neck broke and he died as well. So there´s a driver dead, 14 spectators dead and immediately the press said it happened again, Ferrari’s are killing people. When Enzo Ferrari was 63 years old, there was a growing press court to contend with, there was the expense of defending himself in another drawn-out court case and there was the relentless spiraling cost of developing race cars. With all of this Ferrari´s were still winning on the track but even that was about to change.

Ford

It was the Ford motor company which after being turned down in a generous bit to buy Ferrari´s Company decided to beat him on the racetrack. By 1964 at European Grand Prix at Monza the Ford team was closing in. They had 6 Daytona coupes all lined up for Monza but the race got cancelled but it is 1965 when the Ford officially beat the Ferrari. At that point Ferraris began to lose races and it was costing well over a million a year to finance the racing business. And even though Luigi Chinetti made Ferrari passenger cars a legend in America and the cars were selling for as much as 15000$ a piece, by 1967 Ferrari’s company was teetering on the edge of bankruptcy. He´d had to cut his beloved racing program, which was basically the reason he existed for.

Fiat´s wictory

It was at that point when he went to Fiat. With no other resources at his disposal Ferrari had only 1 choice, to approach his old rivals, the Agnelli family for a financial assistance. The Agnelli had reportedly paid 11 million dollars for Ferrari´s Company. They allowed Ferrari to stay in charge of the racing arm of the company while Fiat took over the manufacturer of road cars, they would be built on a production line. It marked the end of the custom Ferrari handmade road cars that have graced highways all over the world. The deal was officially announced to the Italian public on June 21st 1969, it was the end of an era for Enzo Ferrari. At long last he was free to focus his attention solely on winning races, but Enzo Ferrari had unfinished business with his mistress and her growing family. In 1969 Enzo Ferrari was 71 years old and still actively in charge of the Ferrari racing program. His mother Adalgisa had died, his only son Piero was now in his mid-20s and married. Piero came to work at the Scuderia Ferrari to learn his father´s business. But that was more than Ferrari´s aging wife could tolerate, she would arrive at the door bursting into the office saying "Where is the little bastard?" and Piero would have to go and hide or would have to beat a hasty retreat, which must have been dreadful for Piero. By then, Enzo Ferrari was beginning to enjoy his new young family. Piero and his wife Floriana had an infant daughter Antonella. Enzo Ferrari´s only grandchild. Ferrari became a doting grandfather. She later said he was a very tough and stong man with a great heart.

Laura´s Death

Then 9 years later in 1978 when Enzo was 80, Laura Ferrari died. They had been married for 55 years. Enzo soon brought his devoted mistress, Lina, to live with him in his house in Modena. Piero and his family followed. In his final years he became to really enjoy what most would consider a normal family life. Even at the age of 80 Enzo Ferrari refused to retire. His son Piero was made a general manager of the Ferrari racing team in the mid-80s. During losing streaks the 2 Ferrari´s often fought over new engineering strategies. Ferrari spent time recounting the glory days with his old cronies. Saturday launches with the boys became a ritual for 80 year old Enzo Ferrari, especially with Sergio Scaglietti, who was an old Ferrari coach maker in Modena. They talked about everything but never about work. They told jokes, discussed who did what and who said what. In the last years of his life Ferrari was plagued with painful kidney problems. When the pope made a trip to the Maranello to pay his respects which was an extraordinary event, Ferrari was too ill to meet him in person. By July of 1988 Enzo Ferrari was slowly slipping away, he remained bedridden in his home in Modena. Attended by Piero and Floriana. 

Death of the legend

On August 14th 1988 Enzo Ferrari died quietly in his bed with his family surrounding him. He was 90 years old. A public statement regarding his death was issued at 1:00 in the afternoon, 7 hours after the funeral, as it was desired by Piero who was honoring his father´s wishes. At the funeral there were only 6 people in 2 cars and that´s it. Ferrari´s body was laid to rest in a crypt inside his family tomb next to his father Alfredo. Enzo Ferrari´s life story is the story of automobile racing, at least for the 20th century. From his humble beginnings in the Po Valley to the empire he built. Enzo Ferrari will be remembered as the last great titan of an industry he helped to create. Under his 40-year leadership from 1947 to 1988 Ferrari automobiles won more than 5000 races all over the world. Today, the passenger cars that Ferrari detained sell for as much as half a million dollars each. His influence on the whole motor industry may be the strongest of any individual. He was the dominant force in the Grand Prix racing and helped lay the ground-work for the multi-billion dollar situation that it is today.

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1964 250GTO S2. Targa Florio of course.

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‘Jano's Capolavoro’ Artwork available in Limited Edition Print Guy Moll at the wheel of one of Scuderia Ferrari's 1934 fleet of Alfa Romeo Tipo B P3s (Chassis s/n 50003 SF43). Moll, born in French colony Algeria, was seen as a huge talent who won on his Grand Prix debut at Monaco, for Scuderia Ferrari. Tragically his life was cut short later that year at the Coppa Acerbo. Vittorio Jano’s Alfa Romeo Tipo B was an automotive masterpiece, that obliterated its rivals in 1932 and continued to dominate up until 1934/5, when Auto Union, Bugatti & Maserati began to introduce their own revolutionary vehicles, spurred on by the success of the P3. Chassis 50003 was built for and purchased by Enzo Ferrari in 1934, before being sold to CEC Martin, UK, who raced it extensively. The vehicle then moved to Australia during the 50s & 60s. Today the vehicle is owned and raced by restoration specialists; Matt & Paul Grist. #creativecombined #alfaromeop3 #alfaclassic #museoalfaromeo #alfaromeoracing #scuderiaferrari #classicf1 #vintagegrandprix #ferrarihistory #carart #oldschoolf1 #automotiveillustration #classiccarart #classiccarartwork #classiccarartist #carartists #autoartsy #drawtodrive #transportation_illustration #cavallinoclassic (at Port de Monaco) https://www.instagram.com/p/B_QTG3wpWqP/?igshid=ibwbgzwhkmda

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‘Caraceni’s Hillclimber’ Artwork available in Limited Edition Print The nose of chassis no.0088E, the Ferrari 212 Export Berlinetta, bodied by Carrozzeria Touring. Reg #147588-Roma Competed in the Stella Alpina Hillclimb, in Bardonecchia, in 1951 & 52, and later in the Giro di Sicilia & Coppa della Toscana. The beautiful vehicle changed hand several times during the 50s & 60s before extensive works were carried out to bring it up to its current concours condition. Recently seen displayed at the #goodwoodrevival. A special mention to www.Barchetta.cc -host of the historic archive photos that accompany this post. #creativecombined #ferraridriver #ferraridriversclub #ferraridrivers #ferrariownersclub #ferrariowners #ferrarirestorer #ferrarivintage #racingferrari #coachbuild #concoursdelegance #targaflorio #classicdriver #petrolicious #millemigliaofficial #millemiglia_italy #ferrarihistory #carart #automotiveillustration #comicstyle #classiccarart #classiccarartwork #classiccarartist #carartists #transportation_illustration https://www.instagram.com/p/B_IPKojJd4f/?igshid=1mmevoait54mt

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‘Ecurie 28’ Artwork available in Limited Edition Print. See Bio for more details. Chassis No: 0682MDTR The 1957-winning Le Mans 500TRC, finishing 1st in class. Entered by the Ecurie Francochamps team, driven by the duo of Lucien Bianchi & Georges Harris. After it’s victorious start to life, the vehicle was reworked and sold to Sicilian Prince: Gaetano Starrabba who raced it extensively in 1958, inc. twice at the Targa Florio, before a crash in the 1959 edition ruled the end of its racing career. Later restored, owned and raced by father-son duo David and James Cottingham. Sketch & Marker, finished in Photoshop #ecuriefrancorchamps #ferrari500TRC #500TRC #davidcottingham #targaflorio #targaflorioclassica #ferrarihistory #ferrariart #ferrariownersclubnl #carartists #carartworks #carartcommunity #vintageferrari #vintageferraris #ferrariownersclubjapan #carportrait #carsketching #carsketchdaily #cardrawing #cargramm #drawtodrive #motorartistcommunity #transportationillustration https://www.instagram.com/p/B-K6-S0pBtW/?igshid=1h6yns20shss8

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‘Ecurie 28’ Artwork available in Limited Edition Print. See Bio for more details. Chassis No: 0682MDTR The 1957-winning Le Mans 500TRC, finishing 1st in class. Entered by the Ecurie Francochamps team, driven by the duo of Lucien Bianchi & Georges Harris. After it’s victorious start to life, the vehicle was reworked and sold to Sicilian Prince: Gaetano Starrabba who raced it extensively in 1958, inc. twice at the Targa Florio, before a crash in the 1959 edition ruled the end of its racing career. Later restored, owned and raced by father-son duo David and James Cottingham. Sketch & Marker, finished in Photoshop #ecuriefrancorchamps #ferrari500TRC #500TRC #davidcottingham #targaflorio #targaflorioclassica #ferrarihistory #ferrariart #ferrariownersclubnl #carartists #carartworks #carartcommunity #vintageferrari #vintageferraris #ferrariownersclubjapan #carportrait #carsketching #carsketchdaily #cardrawing #cargramm #drawtodrive #motorartistcommunity #transportationillustration https://www.instagram.com/p/B-K6-S0pBtW/?igshid=1h15t26cpx4b2

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‘Ecurie 28’ Artwork available in Limited Edition Print. See Bio for more details. Chassis No: 0682MDTR The 1957-winning Le Mans 500TRC, finishing 1st in class. Entered by the Ecurie Francochamps team, driven by the duo of Lucien Bianchi & Georges Harris. After it’s victorious start to life, the vehicle was reworked and sold to Sicilian Prince: Gaetano Starrabba who raced it extensively in 1958, inc. twice at the Targa Florio, before a crash in the 1959 edition ruled the end of its racing career. Later restored, owned and raced by father-son duo David and James Cottingham. Sketch & Marker, finished in Photoshop #ecuriefrancorchamps #ferrari500TRC #500TRC #davidcottingham #targaflorio #targaflorioclassica #ferrarihistory #ferrariart #ferrariartist #ferrariartwork #ferrariposter #ferrarimerchandise #cargraphicdesign #carillustration #carillustrations #posterart #wallartideas https://www.instagram.com/p/B-K6sM5pOjt/?igshid=7ussaqti2x0b

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For the WW1 (and Ferrari) fans out there here’s our Francesco Baracca inspired Duffel Bag. 😁👏 . So who is Francesco Baracca? Francesco was a WW1 pilot and Italy’s top fighter ace. Francesco painted on the side of his aircraft a black horse prancing on its two rear feet which represented the Coat of Arms of his family.  Fransceso went on to score 34 aerial victories however was killed on 19 June 1918 aged 30 years old.  Some time after Francesco's death, his mother presented his prancing stallion emblem, the Cavallino Rampante, to Enzo Ferrari. The prancing horse has been the official symbol of the Scuderia Ferrari racing team since 1929, and of Ferrari automobiles since they began being manufactured. 🤙😎 Free Shipping Worldwide 📦👍 🌎 www.iloveahangar.com 👍 #aviationlovers #instagramaviation #instaaviation #planespotting #avgeek #airforce #aviators #ww1 #ferrarihistory #francescobaracca #warbirds https://www.instagram.com/p/B49mSdchVaA/?igshid=8zetochycqej

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We like a story behind our designs and today’s story behind the design is about the WW1 pilot, Francesco Baracca. During WW1, Francesco Baracca flew a Spad XIII (91st Squadriglia). On this aircraft he painted a black horse prancing on its two rear feet on the side of his aircraft which represented the Coat of Arms of his family.  Fransceso went on to score 34 aerial victories however was killed on 19 June 1918 aged 30 years old.  Some time after Francesco's death, his mother presented his prancing stallion emblem, the Cavallino Rampante, to Enzo Ferrari. The prancing horse has been the official symbol of the Scuderia Ferrari racing team since 1929, and of Ferrari automobiles since they began being manufactured. 🤙😎 . . Free Shipping Worldwide 📦👍 🌎 Link to store located in Profile Bio 😁 www.iloveahangar.com 👍 #aviationlovers #aircraft #instagramaviation #instaaviation #planespotting #pilotlife #instaplane #aviationgeek #airforce #warbirds #aviators #vansshoes #chucktaylors #vanslovers #francescobaracca #ww1aviation #ferrarihistory https://www.instagram.com/p/B3jr_-Ch0ft/?igshid=f0cczpzq96k8

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In progress sketchwork for a new piece that will be completed later today, featuring the famous Ferrari #Breadvan. More details to come later. . . . . . . #creativecombined #ferraribreadvan #250gtswbbreadvan #ferrari #Formtrends #Drawtodrive #Transportation_illustration #Automotive_art_gallery #motorartistcommunity #sketchstorm #lazenbyvisuals #ferraridriver #ferraridriversclub #ferrariownersclub #ferrariowners #ferrarirestorer #ferrarivintage #racingferrari #classicdriver #ferrarihistory #carart #automotiveillustration #classiccarart #ferrariownersclubindonesia #ferrariart #ferraridesign #goodwoodrevival #ferraridealer https://www.instagram.com/p/CAxLBxepNNt/?igshid=1lo2x9srtpza3