Ferrari - A Timeline Of The Last 80 Years
By far one of the most popular car brands in both the racing and road legal world
, Ferrari has a stigma of developing high performance cars that are aesthetically beautiful.
Showcasing the company's legacy over the past 80 years, the following timeline picks out some highlights from Ferrari's history.
1929 - Enzo Ferrari began both sponsoring and creating racing cars under the brand Scuderia Ferrari, with no initial intention of developing the company into one that manufactures road legal cars.
1938 - Using his knowledge of racing over the past decade, Enzo Ferrari prepared a variety of racers, primarily in Alpha Romeo cars, leading to him being hired by the company in this year as the head of their racing branch.
1941 - Three years after his appointment, Alpha Romeo was seized by Benito Mussolini as part of the war effort. Fortunately for Ferrari, his department wasn't greatly affected, due to its small size.
1943 - Leaving the company after only a few years, Ferrari wasn't able to race or design cars until four years after he first joined Alpha Romeo, due to clauses in his contract, but moved his Ferrari factory to Maranello this year.
1947 - The year that the company we know today was officially founded, titled Ferrari S.p.A, saw the very first road car under the Ferrari brand to be produced, the 125 Sport. A piece of information that is not particularly common knowledge is that Enzo Ferrari was not in massive favour of producing road legal cars and only did so to fund his racing division.
1961 - Developing several road legal cars throughout the 1950s, the company almost faced complete disaster in the early 1960s when there was a mass walkout due to growing tension within the company. Saved by Mauro Forghieri, a young and inexperienced engineer and Sergio Scaglietti, a well-known racing body worker, Ferrari's most famous racing car, the 250 GTO, was almost not created, but was pushed forward by Forghieri and Scaglietti and became a resounding success throughout the early 1960s.
1964 - After the racing success that the company saw in the early part of the decade, they began taking more notice of their road cars and 1964 saw the production of one of Ferrari's most popular road cars, the 275.
1968 - Four years later and the legendary Ferrari Daytona rolled off the production line and into Ferrari dealers, being manufactured until 1976.
1969 - The large car manufacturer Fiat bought half of Ferrari in 1969, with the primary aim to inject funds into the company, rather than having a distinct affect on the production aspects.
1973 - Further to a massively successful year in sports car racing, Ferrari withdrew from all racing competitions of this ilk, directing all of their focus on Formula One.
1988 - Due to Enzo Ferrari's reputation in the car manufacturing world, his death was expected to have a substantial affect on the industry. Not many could predict just how great of an affect, however and Ferrari's popularity - especially in respect of road legal vehicles - blossomed substantially, with the value of both new and used cars increasing massively following his death.
1996 - The peak of Ferrari's racing popularity arguably started in 1996 when the company hired young racing driver Michael Schumacher. Dominating the Formula One racing world for 9 years until 2004, he helped the company achieve 5 driver's championships from 2000 to 2004.
2010 - Still owned primarily by Fiat, Ferrari has several other investors, including Enzo Ferrari's son, Piero Ferrari.
by: Steve Carr
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