Ferrari became severely sick himself during the 1918 flu pandemic and was consequently discharged from the Italian service.įollowing the family's carpentry business collapse, Ferrari started searching for a job in the car industry. His father Alfredo, and his older brother, Alfredo Jr., died in 1916 as a result of a widespread Italian flu outbreak. During World War I he served in the 3rd Mountain Artillery Regiment of the Italian Army.

At the age of 10 he witnessed Felice Nazzaro's win at the 1908 Circuito di Bologna, an event that inspired him to become a racing driver. Enzo grew up with little formal education. Alfredo Senior was the son of a grocer from Carpi, and started a workshop fabricating metal parts at the family home. He was the younger of two children to Alfredo Ferrari and Adalgisa Bisbini, after his elder sibling Alfredo Junior (Dino).

In his final years he was often referred to as L'Ingegnere ('The Engineer') or Il Grande Vecchio ('The Grand Old Man').Įnzo Ferrari was said to have been born on 18 February 1898 in Modena, Italy and that his birth was recorded on 20 February because a heavy snowstorm had prevented his father from reporting the birth at the local registry office in reality, his birth certificate states he was born on 20 February 1898, while the birth's registration took place on 24 February 1898 and was reported by the midwife, whose name was Jacqueline D'Amico. He was widely known as Il Commendatore or Il Drake. Enzo Anselmo Giuseppe Maria Ferrari Cavaliere di Gran Croce OMRI ( Italian: 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.

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