Biography Ferrari was born in 1898 in Modena, Italy. He saw his first car race when he was ten.

He was forced to leave school during World War I. He served in the Italian Army artillery and after the war, he applied to Fiat for work but was turned down. He found work as a test driver for a small car company that later introduced Vespa motor-scooters. Ferrari drove in his first race in 1919 though he didnt win a race until 1923, when he was working at Alfa Romeo. In 1929, he formed his own racing team for that company. He gave up racing in 1932 when his son was born. He wanted to build his own racing machines, but World War II intervened. It wasnt until 1947 that the Ferrari name began appearing on a car. The car won the Rome Grand Prix that same year, and went on to win 93 Formula One Grand Prix races and nine Formula One championships, the most of any car maker. He attracted many of the major drivers of the era, and in total they won more than 4,000 victories, with the Ferrari team winning 13 world titles. After 1979, however, the car didnt do as well in races. His feud with the Ford company started in 1963, when Ford tried unsuccessfully to buy Ferrari. Fiat bought more than half of the Ferrari company in 1969. Ferrari was awarded an honorary engineering degree from the University of Bologna. His wife, whom he married in 1923, died in 1978, and he had two sons: Dino, who died in 1956, and Piero. Reclusive in his later years, he supervised racing-car operations at his factory until his death. He formally resigned from the presidency of the company in 1977. He died 8/14/1988 from kidney disease. History 1946-present

Currently, the Ferrari works team only compete in Formula One, and is the only team to have competed in the World Championship since its inception in 1950. Sports car racing A 312PB (driven by Jacky Ickx) during the team's final year in the World Sportscar Championship. In 1949, Luigi Chinetti drove a 166 M to Ferrari's first win in motorsports, the 24 Hours of Le Mans. Ferrari went on to dominate the early years of the World Sportscar Championship which was created in 1953, winning the title seven out of its first nine years. When the championship format changed in 1962, Ferrari earned titles in at least one class each year through to 1965 and then again in 1967.) Ferrari would win one final title, the 1972 World Championship of Makes before Enzo decided to leave sports car racing after 1973 and allow Scuderia Ferrari to concentrate solely on Formula One. During Ferrari's seasons of the World Sportscars Championship, they also gained more wins at the 24 Hours of Le Mans, with the factory team earning their first in 1954. Another win would come in 1958, followed by five consecutive wins from 1960 to 1964. Luigi Chinetti's North American Racing Team (NART) would take Ferrari's final victory at Le Mans in 1965. Although Scuderia Ferrari no longer participated in sports cars after 1973, they have occasionally built various successful sports cars for privateers. These include the BB 512 LM in

the 1970s, the 333 SP which won the IMSA GT Championship in the 1990s, and currently the F430 GT2 and GT3 which are currently winning championships in their respective classes. Formula One Scuderia Ferrari won its most recent Formula One driver's title in 2007, with Kimi Rikknen. Scuderia Ferrari joined the Formula One World Championship in the first year of its existence,in 1950. Jos Froiln Gonzlez gave the team its first victory at the 1951 British Grand Prix. Alberto Ascari gave Ferrari its first Drivers Championship a year later. Ferrari is the oldest team in the championship, and the most successful: the team holds nearly every Formula One record. As of 2008, the team's records include 15 World Drivers Championship titles (1952, 1953, 1956, 1958, 1961, 1964, 1975, 1977, 1979, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004 and 2007) 16 World Constructors Championship titles (1961, 1964, 1975, 1976, 1977, 1979, 1982, 1983, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2007 and 2008), 209 Grand Prix victories, 4925.27 points, 622 podium finishes, 203 pole positions, and 218 fastest laps in 776 Grands Prix contested. Notable Ferrari drivers include Tazio Nuvolari, Jos Froiln Gonzlez, Juan Manuel Fangio, Luigi Chinetti, Alberto Ascari, Wolfgang von Trips, Phil Hill, Olivier Gendebien, Mike Hawthorn, Peter Collins, Giancarlo Baghetti, John Surtees, Lorenzo Bandini, Ludovico Scarfiotti, Jacky Ickx, Mario Andretti, Clay Regazzoni, Niki Lauda, Carlos Reutemann, Jody Scheckter, Gilles Villeneuve, Didier Pironi, Patrick Tambay, Ren Arnoux, Michele Alboreto, Gerhard Berger, Nigel Mansell, Alain Prost, Jean Alesi, Eddie Irvine, Rubens Barrichello, Michael Schumacher, Kimi Rikknen and Felipe Massa. At the end of the 2006 season, the team courted controversy by continuing to allow Marlboro to sponsor them after they, along with the other F1 teams, made a promise to end sponsorship deals with tobacco manufacturers. A five year deal was agreed and although this is not due to end until 2011, in April 2008 Marlboro dropped their on-car branding on Ferrari. The drivers competing for 2009 were Felipe Massa and defending champion Kimi Rikknen. Massa was injured by a 1 kg suspension spring from the car of Rubens Barrichello after second qualifying at the Hungarian Grand Prix, ending his season. Upon being released from his contract at Force India, Giancarlo Fisichella was announced as the driver deputising for Massa for the rest of the 2009 season after Luca Badoer deputised for the injured driver at the European and the Belgian Grand Prix. In 2010 Fernando Alonso will start racing for Ferrari after racing for Renault and Mclaren, filling Kimi Rikknen's former seat.