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Enzo Ferrari is born in Modena
The future founder is born in Modena in February 1898. Sources give the 18th or the 20th, so only the month is shown here.
Maranello Edition · Origins
The Ferrari story, from the first sketch to today.
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173 moments · 60 model generations · 128 years
Before the badge
A young man from Modena runs other people’s racing cars and dreams of building his own.
1898
1908
PeopleA ten-year-old sees his first motor race
Enzo’s father takes him and his brother to the Bologna circuit, where Felice Nazzaro wins. The boy decides he wants to race.
1916
PeopleEnzo loses his father and his brother
An influenza outbreak kills both Alfredo Ferrari and his elder son in 1916, leaving Enzo the only man of the family.
1919
PeopleTurned down by Fiat, he starts racing for CMN
After Fiat rejects him, Enzo becomes a test driver at CMN in Milan and makes his competitive debut in the Parma to Poggio di Berceto hill climb.
1920
PeopleTwenty years with Alfa Romeo begin
Enzo joins Alfa Romeo as a works driver, the start of a relationship that later makes him head of its racing department.
1923
PeopleA countess offers him a prancing horse
After winning on the Savio circuit near Ravenna, Enzo meets the parents of fighter ace Francesco Baracca. By his own account, the Countess suggests putting her son’s horse on his cars for luck.
1924
RacingEnzo’s best season behind the wheel
He wins at Ravenna, at Polesine and the Coppa Acerbo in Pescara. It is the high point of a driving career he later admits he continued half-heartedly.
1929
CompanyEnzo founds Scuderia Ferrari
Enzo sets up his racing team in Modena, running Alfa Romeo cars with drivers such as Giuseppe Campari and Tazio Nuvolari.
1932
PeopleDino is born and Enzo stops racing
Alfredo, known as Dino, is born on 19 January. His arrival settles it for Enzo, who gives up driving to concentrate on running his team.
- Design
The Prancing Horse first races, at Spa
Nine years after the Baracca meeting, the emblem finally appears on the Scuderia’s Alfa Romeos at the Spa 24 Hours. Antonio Brivio and Eugenio Siena win in an 8C 2300, with team-mates second.
1933
CompanyAlfa withdraws and the Scuderia steps in
Short of money, Alfa Romeo pulls its own team out of racing. Scuderia Ferrari becomes its representative on track and later gets the P3 monoposto.
1935
RacingNuvolari beats the Germans at home
In a Scuderia Ferrari Alfa Romeo, Tazio Nuvolari chases Manfred von Brauchitsch’s Mercedes through the German Grand Prix. A tyre fails on the German’s car on the last lap, and Nuvolari takes the win.
1937
CompanyAlfa takes back control of the team
Alfa Romeo, by now holding 80% of the Scuderia, dissolves it and creates Alfa Corse. Enzo stays on as sporting director.
- Technology
The Alfetta takes shape in Enzo’s workshop
Enzo proposes a 1.5-litre racer to Alfa. Gioacchino Colombo, on loan from the factory, designs it in Modena, and the car later dominates the first Formula 1 season.
1939
CompanyEnzo leaves Alfa and starts on his own
After clashing with Alfa’s managing director Ugo Gobbato, Enzo walks out and founds Auto Avio Costruzioni in Modena. His exit deal bars him from using the Ferrari name on racing cars for some years.
1940
New modelThe Tipo 815 races under another name
After leaving Alfa Romeo, Enzo founds Auto Avio Costruzioni in Modena and builds the Tipo 815 for the 1940 Mille Miglia. His agreement with Alfa keeps the Ferrari racing name off it.
1943
CompanyThe move to Maranello
A government order to decentralise industry sends the company out of Modena to Maranello, where Enzo owns land. It makes precision grinding machines there, not cars.
1945
TechnologyEnzo asks Colombo for a V12
With the war over, Enzo commissions Gioacchino Colombo to design an all-new car to beat the Alfas, built around a 12-cylinder engine. The company also takes the Ferrari name in 1945.
- People
A second son, kept secret
Piero is born to Enzo and Lina Lardi. With divorce illegal in Italy, Enzo cannot recognise him while his wife Laura is alive.
The first V12s
The name finally appears on a car, and the wins at Le Mans, in Formula 1 and at Daytona follow.
1947
New modelThe 125 S, first car to wear the badge
The 125 S makes its debut at Piacenza in May 1947. Its 1.5-litre V12 is designed by Gioacchino Colombo, with contributions from Giuseppe Busso and Luigi Bazzi.
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First win, among the baths of Caracalla
Two weeks after retiring at Piacenza, Franco Cortese wins the Rome Grand Prix in the 125 S. Enzo had called the debut a promising failure.
1948
RacingFirst Mille Miglia win
Clemente Biondetti and Giuseppe Navone win the Italian road race in an Allemano-bodied 166. It is the first of many Ferrari wins in the event, and the 166 MM takes its name from it.
- Racing
Ferrari’s first Grand Prix car appears
The supercharged 125 F1 makes its debut at the Italian Grand Prix in Turin, with Raymond Sommer among its drivers. Its showing persuades Enzo to continue with Grand Prix racing.
- New model
The 166 MM creates the barchetta
At the Turin show, Ferrari presents a car at a motor show for the first time. Touring’s light open body looks so like a small boat that the press nickname it barchetta.
1949
RacingFirst Le Mans win
Lord Selsdon and Luigi Chinetti win the 24 Hours in a 166 MM Touring barchetta. It is Chinetti’s third Le Mans victory, and he drives about 22.5 of the 24 hours.
1950
TechnologyLampredi’s big V12 replaces the supercharger
Unhappy at Monaco, Enzo pushes for naturally aspirated engines. Aurelio Lampredi’s V12 grows through 3.3, 4.1 and 4.5 litres in a single season, leading to the 375 F1.
- Racing
A count in a suit wins the Mille Miglia
Textile heir Giannino Marzotto, 22, wins in a 195 S in a jacket, shirt and tie. He is the youngest winner of the race, and beats the works stars Ascari and Villoresi.
- Racing
Formula 1 debut at Monaco
Ferrari skips the first world championship race and enters from the second, with three supercharged 125 F1s. Alberto Ascari finishes second, a lap behind Fangio’s Alfa, and Raymond Sommer fourth.
1951
RacingFirst Formula 1 win at Silverstone
José Froilán González starts from pole and beats Juan Manuel Fangio’s Alfa Romeo at the British Grand Prix, giving the team its first win in the championship.
- Racing
Mexico falls to a Vignale coupé
Piero Taruffi and Luigi Chinetti win the Carrera Panamericana in a 212 Inter bodied by Vignale, a win that helps build Ferrari’s reputation.
1952
DesignPinin Farina starts dressing Ferraris
Battista Farina’s work for Ferrari begins, the start of the partnership that gives the marque its look. Until then, customers chose among many coachbuilders.
- Racing
Bracco holds off the Mercedes 300 SL
Giovanni Bracco and Alfonso Rolfo win the Mille Miglia in a 250 S berlinetta by Vignale, ahead of Karl Kling’s Mercedes-Benz 300 SL. The win leads to the 250 line.
- Racing
Ascari goes to Indianapolis
For its only official entry in the 500, Ferrari builds the 375 Indianapolis. Alberto Ascari misses a world championship round to go, then retires when a wheel fails.
- Racing
A first Ferrari win at Monaco, in a sports car
That year the Monaco Grand Prix is held for sports cars. Vittorio Marzotto wins in a 225 S by Vignale, the marque’s first victory in the Principality.
- Racing
Ascari brings the first world title
With the championship run to Formula 2 rules, Ferrari’s four-cylinder 500 F2 is the car to have. Ascari wins six straight races and the drivers’ title at Monza.
1953
RacingAscari does it again
Still with the 500 F2, Ascari wins in Argentina, the Netherlands, Belgium, Britain and Switzerland to take a second consecutive title.
- Racing
Hawthorn beats Fangio in the race of the century
At Reims, 24-year-old Mike Hawthorn takes his first Grand Prix win after swapping the lead with Fangio lap after lap.
- Racing
First world sports car champions
The FIA creates a World Sportscar Championship for makes, and Ferrari wins the first edition with its 340 MM and 375 MM. A fourth place in Mexico clinches it.
1954
New modelThe 250 GT sets the template
The Paris show sees the 250 Europa GT by Pinin Farina, the first road car with Colombo’s 250 V12 and the first to use the Gran Turismo name. It shapes Ferrari’s road cars for ten years.
- Racing
Second Le Mans win, with a five-litre V12
José Froilán González and Maurice Trintignant win in a Pinin Farina-bodied 375 Plus, its bored-out Lampredi V12 Ferrari’s answer to the new Jaguar D-Type.
- Racing
Winning the last Carrera Panamericana
Umberto Maglioli wins the final edition in a 375 Plus entered by the American Erwin Goldschmidt, at a record average of nearly 174 km/h. The race is judged too dangerous and is never run again.
1955
PeopleAscari dies testing a Ferrari at Monza
Four days after surviving a plunge into Monaco harbour with Lancia, Italy’s double champion is killed at Monza at the wheel of a Ferrari sports car. The cause of the crash has never been settled.
- Company
Lancia hands its racing team to Ferrari
Ascari’s death and money trouble end Lancia’s programme. Its cars and equipment go to Ferrari for free, including six D50s, and Fiat adds 50 million lire a year for five years.
1956
PeopleDino Ferrari dies at 24
Enzo’s elder son dies of muscular dystrophy. The funeral falls on the day of the French Grand Prix. The V6 engines that follow carry his name.
- Racing
Collins hands Fangio the title
At Monza, Peter Collins still has a chance of the championship. He gives his car to team leader Fangio, whose steering has failed, and Fangio shares second place to win his fourth title.
1957
New modelA Ferrari for California
Importer Luigi Chinetti and West Coast dealer John von Neumann persuade Enzo that American buyers want an open sporting 250 GT. Scaglietti builds it.
- New model
The Testa Rossa gets its red heads
The three-litre V12 sports racer takes its name from the colour of its cylinder heads. Built for teams and private drivers, it becomes one of Maranello’s most famous racers.
- Racing
Taruffi’s promise and the end of the Mille Miglia
Piero Taruffi wins at last and keeps his promise to his wife to retire. But a burst tyre sends Alfonso de Portago’s 335 S off the road near the finish, killing him, his navigator and nine spectators. The race is banned.
1958
RacingHawthorn wins by a point, then walks away
Winning just one race, Mike Hawthorn beats Stirling Moss by a point to become Britain’s first world champion, in a 246 F1 with a Dino V6. Shaken by Collins’s death, he retires and dies on the road months later.
- People
Two Ferrari drivers die within weeks
Luigi Musso dies at Reims in July, and Peter Collins at the Nürburgring soon after, just weeks after winning the British Grand Prix.
- Company
Chinetti creates NART
Luigi Chinetti, Ferrari’s American importer, sets up the North American Racing Team with money from wealthy racers. It races Ferraris in the US and promotes the marque.
- Racing
Testa Rossa wins at Le Mans
Olivier Gendebien and Phil Hill win in a Scaglietti-bodied 250 TR, after Enzo chose the proven car over his newest prototypes.
1959
New modelThe 250 GT short wheelbase
Shown at Paris, designed by Pinin Farina and built by Scaglietti, the berlinetta is Ferrari’s first road car with standard disc brakes. Stirling Moss wins the Tourist Trophy in one in 1960 and 1961.
1960
CompanyThe company becomes Ferrari S.p.A.
The firm, called Auto Costruzioni Ferrari since 1957, is reorganised and takes the Ferrari S.p.A. name. Results of the period list its works entry as SEFAC.
- Racing
The last front-engined win
British teams boycott Monza over its banking, and Phil Hill leads a Ferrari sweep in the 246 F1. It is the last championship win for a front-engined car.
1961
CompanyThe palace revolt
At the end of the year, Enzo’s senior staff are gone, among them Romolo Tavoni, Carlo Chiti and Giotto Bizzarrini. Accounts differ on whether they quit or were fired. Several go on to found the rival ATS.
- Racing
A mid-engined Ferrari wins the Targa
The 246 SP, Ferrari’s first mid-engined sports racer, wins the Targa Florio with Wolfgang von Trips and Olivier Gendebien. Enzo has given up his belief that the horse goes before the cart.
- Racing
Baghetti wins on his debut
Giancarlo Baghetti wins the French Grand Prix in a privately entered 156, his first world championship race. No driver has done it since.
- Racing
A title won and a tragedy at Monza
Wolfgang von Trips arrives leading the championship, but crashes on lap two, dying with fifteen spectators. Phil Hill wins the race and becomes the first American champion, in the shark-nosed 156.
1962
New modelThe 250 GTO arrives
Giotto Bizzarrini develops the car in secrecy to beat the Jaguar E-Type, and Sergio Scaglietti gives it its definitive shape after Bizzarrini’s exit. Just 36 are built.
1963
CompanyEnzo says no to Ford
After weeks of hard talks, Enzo backs out just before signing, unwilling to give up control of the racing team. Ford decides to beat him on the track instead.
- Racing
An all-Italian win with the 250 P
Lorenzo Bandini and Lodovico Scarfiotti win in a mid-engined 250 P, the only time an Italian crew has won Le Mans in an Italian car. Ferraris fill the first six places.
1964
RacingSurtees, champion on two wheels and four
John Surtees beats Graham Hill by a single point in the V8 158 F1 and becomes the only world champion on motorcycles and in cars. At the last two races the cars run in NART’s white and blue, as Enzo protests over the 250 LM.
- Racing
A headmaster wins at Le Mans
Jean Guichet and Nino Vaccarella win in a 275 P. Vaccarella, who runs the family’s school in Palermo, skips the celebrations to be at work on Monday morning.
1965
CompanyA first deal with Fiat, for an engine
To qualify its V6 for Formula 2, Ferrari needs 500 production engines. It agrees that Fiat will build them for its own Dino coupé and spider, and talks about a closer tie begin.
- Racing
A customer car wins Ferrari’s last Le Mans for decades
Ford’s and Ferrari’s prototypes fail, and a 250 LM entered by NART wins from a privately entered sister car. It is Ferrari’s sixth win in a row, and its last at Le Mans for 58 years.
1966
VersionFour camshafts for a road Ferrari
An update of the 275 GTB gets a four-cam version of the Colombo V12, with 300 CV. It leads straight to the 365 GTB/4.
- Design
A three-seater with the driver in the middle
Pininfarina’s 365 P Berlinetta Speciale puts a racing V12 behind a central driving seat with a passenger on each side. Gianni Agnelli orders a second car.
- Racing
Ford ends the Le Mans run
Three years after Enzo’s refusal, Ford Mk IIs take the first three places, ending Ferrari’s six straight wins.
- People
Surtees walks out
After winning at Spa in torrential rain, Surtees is left out of the Le Mans line-up amid a dispute with team manager Eugenio Dragoni, and leaves Ferrari. The two sides’ accounts differ.
1967
New modelA Dino for the road
The small mid-engined V6 berlinetta carries the Dino name of Enzo’s son rather than the horse, as was then usual for a Maranello car without a V12.
- Racing
A 1-2-3 at Daytona
Chris Amon and Lorenzo Bandini lead home a 1-2-3 finish at the 24 Hours of Daytona. The media later give the name of the race to the 365 GTB/4.
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Bandini’s crash at Monaco
Late in the Monaco Grand Prix, Lorenzo Bandini crashes at the harbour chicane. His Ferrari catches fire and he dies of his injuries three days later.
1968
New modelThe car the press names Daytona
The 365 GTB/4 appears at Paris, styled at Pininfarina by Leonardo Fioravanti. The Daytona name is the media’s, after the 1-2-3 of 1967. Ferrari calls it the 365 GTB4.
- Racing
Ickx wins in the rain at Rouen
Young Jacky Ickx wins the French Grand Prix in a 312, Ferrari’s first win of a difficult season.
The Fiat years
Fiat’s investment steadies the company, the flat-12 arrives and Lauda ends an eleven-year wait.
1969
CompanyFiat buys half of the company
After talks with Ford fell through in 1963, Fiat buys 50% of the shares, bringing the financial stability the business needs.
- Racing
Amon wins the Tasman series
Chris Amon takes the title in New Zealand and Australia in a Dino 246 Tasmania, a Ferrari Formula 2 car with a larger V6. He never won a world championship Grand Prix.
1970
TechnologyThe flat-12 312 B
Mauro Forghieri’s 312 B brings a 180-degree V12 to Formula 1. After a slow start Ferrari wins four races, among them Clay Regazzoni’s first, at Monza.
- Racing
The 512 S beats Steve McQueen at Sebring
With Fiat’s investment behind him, Enzo orders the 25 V12 sports cars the rules demand, designed in three months. Andretti, Giunti and Vaccarella win the 12 Hours on the same lap as the Porsche of the actor and Peter Revson.
1971
New modelThe Boxer replaces the Daytona
At the Turin show, the 365 GT4 BB becomes the first production Ferrari with a flat-12 derived from Formula 1, set behind the driver.
- People
Giunti killed on the 312 PB’s debut
Leading the Buenos Aires 1000 km, Ignazio Giunti hits the Matra that Jean-Pierre Beltoise is pushing along the track after running out of fuel.
1972
RacingThe 312 PB wins all it enters
Ferrari’s three-litre sports cars win ten championship rounds from ten starts, missing only Le Mans, and take the makes’ title. At Zeltweg they fill the top four places.
- Company
The Fiorano test track opens
Built at Enzo’s wish for developing and testing the cars, the private circuit opens in April 1972 with a length of three kilometres.
1973
New modelA V8, and Bertone instead of Pininfarina
Shown at Paris, the Dino 308 GT4 is Maranello’s first production V8 and its first mid-engined 2+2. Marcello Gandini styles it at Bertone, the first non-Pininfarina Ferrari in 20 years.
- Company
Ferrari leaves sports car racing
Ferrari ends its works sports car programme after 1973 to put everything into Formula 1. It does not return with a factory prototype for 50 years.
- People
Enzo hires Montezemolo
In a winless season, Luca di Montezemolo arrives as an assistant to the management. A year later he is running the team.
1974
RacingLauda’s first win is Ferrari’s fiftieth
Hired on Regazzoni’s recommendation, Niki Lauda wins the Spanish Grand Prix at Jarama, with his team-mate second. It is the Scuderia’s 50th Formula 1 win.
1975
New modelThe fibreglass 308 GTB
Pininfarina’s V8 berlinetta appears at Paris, styled by Leonardo Fioravanti. It is Ferrari’s first road car with a fibreglass body, a material soon replaced by metal.
- Technology
The 312 T and its transverse gearbox
Forghieri’s new car debuts in South Africa with its gearbox across the car, ahead of the rear wheels. The T stands for that gearbox, which moves weight forward.
- Racing
Lauda ends an eleven-year wait
Third place at Monza is enough. Lauda’s run of wins with the 312 T brings the first drivers’ title since Surtees in 1964, and Regazzoni’s win that day helps Ferrari to the constructors’ crown.
Turbos and a farewell
Lauda’s fire, Scheckter’s title and the first turbo cars, ending with the death of the founder.
1976
New modelA Ferrari with an automatic gearbox
The 400 replaces the 365 GT4 2+2 at the Paris show and brings the first automatic transmission on a production Ferrari, a Borg Warner three-speed. Purists wince, but about two thirds of the buyers choose it. Enzo calls the car a GT in evening dress.
- Racing
Lauda survives the Nürburgring fire
The championship leader is pulled from his burning 312 T2 by other drivers. He is back at Monza 42 days later and finishes fourth, then loses the title to James Hunt by one point after pulling out of the rain-soaked finale in Japan.
1977
RacingLauda wins a second title with the 312 T2
A year after the fire he leads from France onwards, and his win at Hockenheim feels like an exorcism of the Nürburgring. He takes the 1977 crown, the team keeps the Constructors’ title, and he still leaves Ferrari, with Gilles Villeneuve taking his place.
1978
RacingVilleneuve wins at home in Montreal
Outscored all year by Carlos Reutemann and kept on only because Enzo believes in him, Gilles Villeneuve takes his first Grand Prix at the last race of the season, on a new circuit on Montreal’s Notre-Dame island.
1979
RacingScheckter is champion at Monza
Jody Scheckter leads Villeneuve home half a second apart in a Ferrari one-two, which settles both titles in front of the home crowd. No Ferrari driver takes the drivers’ crown again until the Schumacher era.
1980
New modelThe Mondial 8 brings four seats back to Pininfarina
Shown at Geneva, it replaces the Bertone-styled Dino 308 GT4 with a longer wheelbase and fuel injection. Its name nods to the 500 Mondial of the 1950s. Ferrari’s own history calls it a “democratic supercar”.
1981
RacingA turbo Ferrari wins at Monaco
Few expect a turbo to suit the twists of Monaco, but Villeneuve’s 126 CK takes the first Ferrari win with a turbocharged engine and Monaco’s first for a turbo, ending a gap of a year and a half.
1982
TechnologyThe turbo reaches the road cars
The 208 GTB Turbo appears at Turin. Italian tax favours cars under two litres, so turbocharging restores the power gap to the three-litre cars without raising the owner’s tax bill. It carries Formula 1 thinking into the showroom.
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Gilles Villeneuve dies at Zolder
Less than two weeks after Didier Pironi passes him on the last lap at Imola, which Villeneuve takes as a betrayal and swears never to speak to him again, the Canadian is killed in final qualifying for the Belgian Grand Prix after hitting Jochen Mass’s March.
- Racing
Pironi’s crash and a title lost by five points
Leading the drivers’ standings, Pironi badly injures his legs in wet qualifying in Germany and never races in Formula 1 again. He misses six of the 16 races and still ends five points behind Keke Rosberg. Ferrari wins the Constructors’ title.
1983
RacingA second straight Constructors’ title
After a ban on ground-effect cars, René Arnoux and Patrick Tambay share the wins. The carbon-fibre 126 C3 arrives mid-season and takes Germany and the Netherlands. It is the team’s last constructors’ crown for 16 years.
1984
New modelThe GTO starts the supercar line
Announced by Enzo in 1983 and shown at Geneva, it uses Kevlar and twin turbos, with 200 planned for competition homologation. Rules change and it is left with no championship to race in, but it sells out at once: 272 find buyers.
- Design
The Testarossa’s strakes meet Paris
The heir to the 512 BBi needs side radiators, so Pininfarina turns them into the long strakes that define the car. The name recalls the red-headed racers of the 1950s, and its cam covers are painted red to match. The gala preview takes place at the Lido.
1986
RacingThe Indy car built as a threat
Opposed to plans for V8-only Formula 1 rules, Enzo has a secret single-seater designed for America’s CART series and warns he might leave. The 637, led by Gustav Brunner, is shown to the press and never races.
1987
New modelThe F40 marks 40 years
Presented to the press on 21 July, the twin-turbo berlinetta celebrates 40 years since the first road-approved car. It is the last car unveiled in Enzo’s presence.
1988
CompanyFiat takes 90% after Enzo’s death
The stake bought in 1969 rises from 50% to 90% in the year the founder dies. His son Piero, named as an heir, keeps 10% and stays on as vice chairman.
- People
The Pope laps Fiorano in a Mondial
John Paul II tours Maranello and Piero Ferrari drives him around the track in a Mondial Cabriolet so he can bless the crowd. Enzo, by then rarely at the factory, speaks to him only by phone, two months before his own death.
- People
Enzo Ferrari dies in Maranello
The founder dies at 90 in Maranello, weeks after the first anniversary of the F40’s presentation.
- Racing
The one-two at Monza after Enzo
Four weeks after the founder’s death, Gerhard Berger and Michele Alboreto finish first and second at home. It is the only race of 1988 that McLaren-Honda fails to win, and Ferrari’s own account calls it a one-two sent from above.
The long road back
Without Enzo, the team goes years without a title, until Montezemolo, Todt and Schumacher rebuild it.
1989
New modelThe 348, first car after Enzo
Revealed at Frankfurt, it is the first all-new model since the founder’s death. The V8 is now mounted lengthwise, its transverse gearbox behind, and the flanks borrow their strakes from the Testarossa.
- Technology
Mansell wins first time out with paddles
John Barnard’s 640 replaces the gear lever with paddles behind the wheel. The paddock bets on how few laps it will last, and Nigel Mansell books an early flight home. It wins in Brazil on his Ferrari debut. It is the first semi-automatic win in Formula 1, ten years after a Ferrari test car first tried the idea.
1990
RacingProst brings the 100th win
At Paul Ricard the outsider Leyton House cars try to run without stopping, and Ivan Capelli leads almost to the end. Alain Prost passes him three laps from home for Ferrari’s 100th Grand Prix victory.
- Racing
A collision ends the title fight at Suzuka
Prost arrives at Suzuka, the penultimate round, nine points behind Senna. They collide just after the start, both are out, and the drivers’ title Ferrari has not won since 1979 goes to Senna and McLaren.
1991
PeopleProst is sacked for calling his car a truck
With the team winless and tense all year, Alain Prost compares the car to a truck. Ferrari fires its four-time-to-be champion with a race left, and Gianni Morbidelli takes his seat in the finale.
- People
Montezemolo comes back as president
Gianni Agnelli sends Luca di Montezemolo, Enzo’s former assistant and sporting director in the 1970s, back to a struggling Ferrari. Over 23 years in charge he makes the moves that lead to the 2000s, starting with Jean Todt and Michael Schumacher.
1993
RacingOwners get their own championship
Seeing owners take their cars to the track, Ferrari launches a one-make series with the 348 Challenge. Removing the racing kit returns the car to road use. It grows into Ferrari’s long-running client series.
- People
Jean Todt takes over the Scuderia
After a bitter season with just 28 points to Williams’s 168, Montezemolo hires the man who ran Peugeot’s sporting programme. Under Todt the team goes on to win 13 world titles between drivers and constructors.
1994
RacingThe 333 SP brings Ferrari back to prototypes
Built for American IMSA racing around a 4.0-litre 65-degree V12, it debuts at Road Atlanta and finishes first and second. Cars keep racing until 2003, with a win at the Sebring 12 Hours along the way.
- New model
The F355 and five valves per cylinder
Unveiled to customers at Fiorano, the Pininfarina berlinetta pairs a flat underbody with a five-valve V8 giving 109 hp per litre. It becomes the benchmark for its class.
- Racing
Berger ends a barren spell at Hockenheim
Pole position and victory in Germany give the 412 T1 the team’s first win since Spain 1990. It is its only win of a season darkened by the deaths of Roland Ratzenberger and Ayrton Senna at Imola.
1995
New modelThe F50, a Formula 1 car for the road
At Geneva Montezemolo promises to build 349, one fewer than he thinks he can sell. The 4.7-litre V12 comes from the F1 cars of Prost and Mansell and, as in a single-seater, it is a load-bearing part of the car.
1996
New modelThe 550 returns the V12 to the front
After two decades of mid-engined flagships, Ferrari launches the 550 Maranello at the Nürburgring to prove a front-engined V12 can be quicker than the F512 M it replaces, and far more practical.
- Racing
Schumacher’s first Ferrari win, in the rain
Signed in August 1995 and two weeks after a crash at Monaco that he blames on himself, the double champion drops to seventh at the start in Barcelona, then runs away in torrential rain, in one of the great wet drives.
1997
TechnologyF1 paddles reach a road Ferrari
Eight years after Mansell’s win, the 355 F1 at Frankfurt puts the electro-hydraulic system behind the steering wheel of a road car, working the standard six-speed gearbox. Ferrari builds 1,042 Berlinettas this way.
- Company
Ferrari takes control of Maserati
Fiat sells half of Maserati to its Modena rival and, by 1999, Ferrari has full control. Ferrari’s V8s power the Trident’s cars until 2005, when Fiat splits Maserati off and pairs it with Alfa Romeo.
1999
New modelThe 360 Modena goes all-aluminium
A clean-sheet car unveiled at Geneva, it is the first production Ferrari built entirely in aluminium. Out goes the traditional egg-crate grille too, a Ferrari feature that had often been only a dummy anyway.
- Racing
Schumacher breaks a leg and the team still wins
A brake failure at Silverstone breaks his right shin and he misses six races. Eddie Irvine carries the fight to the last race at Suzuka and loses the drivers’ title there, but Ferrari wins the Constructors’ crown for the first time in 16 years.
The Schumacher dynasty
Five straight drivers’ titles, then Räikkönen’s single point and Massa’s 40 seconds.
2000
RacingSchumacher ends the wait
Michael Schumacher wins the drivers’ title, the team’s first since Jody Scheckter in 1979, and the first of five in a row.
2001
RacingBoth titles settled in Hungary in August
Schumacher takes pole in Budapest over 0.8 seconds clear of David Coulthard and wins, which seals both championships with races still to run. It is his fourth drivers’ title and his second with Ferrari.
2002
New modelThe Enzo honours the founder
Revealed at Paris in the year of the F2002, the carbon-bodied supercar is announced with a run of 399. A 400th is built in 2004 and donated to the Vatican for charity, then sold at auction for 1.1 million dollars.
- Racing
Austria 2002: the win that was handed over
Team orders make Rubens Barrichello let Schumacher through on the last lap. Schumacher pushes him onto the top step of the podium, and the FIA fines team and drivers one million dollars for that ceremony, not for the orders.
- Racing
Champion by July, 15 wins in 17 races
Schumacher settles the drivers’ title in France in July, earlier than anyone before him. The F2001 and F2002 win 15 races, a Ferrari driver reaches every podium, and the team’s 221 points match the other ten teams combined.
2003
PeopleGianni Agnelli dies, and a car takes his initials
The Fiat patriarch who shook Enzo’s hand in 1969 dies a month before his 82nd birthday. Ferrari names its new car the F2003-GA, and Schumacher’s sixth title goes down to the last race.
2004
RacingThe F2004 wins 15 of 18
Thirteen wins for Schumacher, two for Barrichello. The Constructors’ title, the team’s 14th, is settled in Hungary in August, and Schumacher takes his fifth straight title and seventh overall at Spa, where he made his debut in 1991.
2005
TechnologyThe FXX turns customers into test drivers
Inspired by the Enzo and previewed at Pebble Beach, this 800-plus cv V12 is neither road legal nor eligible for racing. A small group of owners become Client Test Drivers, feeding telemetry back to Maranello’s engineers.
2006
PeopleSchumacher announces he will stop
After winning at Monza he says the season will be his last. His Ferrari record stands at 180 Grands Prix, 72 wins, five drivers’ titles and six constructors’ titles. Fernando Alonso and Renault take the crown that year.
2007
CompanySpygate: Ferrari secrets found at McLaren
Ferrari’s complaint about its former employee Nigel Stepney and McLaren’s Mike Coughlan grows into a scandal over stolen technical information. McLaren is excluded from the 2007 Constructors’ Championship and fined a record 100 million dollars.
- Racing
Räikkönen wins the title by one point
Seven points behind Lewis Hamilton before the Brazilian finale, the Finn in his first Ferrari season wins the race and beats Hamilton and Fernando Alonso by a single point. He had also won on his Ferrari debut in Australia.
2008
New modelThe California name returns with a V8
A two-door 2+2 with a folding hard top and a 4.3-litre V8 mounted at the front, it revives a name from the 1950s. Pininfarina shapes it with a long bonnet and the cabin set well back.
- Racing
Massa is champion for less than 40 seconds
He wins at home in Brazil and the team celebrates, until Lewis Hamilton passes Timo Glock in the final corners for the fifth place he needs. Hamilton takes the title by one point, and Ferrari has to settle for its 16th Constructors’ crown.
Going public
Montezemolo leaves, Ferrari lists on two exchanges and splits from Fiat Chrysler, and Marchionne’s death changes the plan’s author.
2009
New modelThe 458 Italia revs to 9,000
Shown at Frankfurt, the 4.5-litre V8 makes 570 cv and revs to a level new for a road car of its size, and paired with a dual-clutch gearbox. Michael Schumacher, now retired from racing, helps shape the cockpit.
2010
CompanyFerrari World opens in Abu Dhabi
The first theme park dedicated to a car maker opens on Yas Island, under a vast red roof. Its Formula Rossa rollercoaster tops 240 km/h and holds the world speed record from 2010 until Falcons Flight opens.
- Racing
Alonso loses the title behind a Renault
In his first Ferrari season Fernando Alonso reaches Abu Dhabi leading the standings by eight points. Stuck behind Vitaly Petrov’s Renault, he finishes seventh and Sebastian Vettel wins the race and the title by four points.
2011
TechnologyThe FF, Ferrari’s first four-wheel drive
Sceptics say Enzo would never have approved. His son Piero answers that his father would have adored it. The FF’s patented system sends part of the torque to the front through a separate unit, so the engine stays in its traditional place.
2013
TechnologyLaFerrari brings hybrid power
The company’s first HY-KERS hybrid road car pairs a V12 with an electric system and a dual-clutch F1 gearbox.
2014
PeopleMontezemolo leaves after 23 years
The president who oversaw six Ferrari drivers’ titles steps down, and Fiat Chrysler’s chief executive Sergio Marchionne takes over. The same season ends without a single win, and the team falls to fourth in the Constructors’.
2015
TechnologyTurbos return to the mid-engined V8
The 488 GTB replaces the 458 with a smaller 3.9-litre twin-turbo V8. It is the first mid-engined Ferrari with a turbocharged V8 since the F40, and its name brings back the old habit of quoting the size of one cylinder.
- People
Vettel replaces Alonso
The four-time champion arrives alongside Kimi Räikkönen, with Maurizio Arrivabene as team principal, and takes his first Ferrari win in Malaysia that year. He stays until the end of 2020 without winning a title with the team.
- Company
Ferrari lists on Wall Street as RACE
Marchionne’s plan floats about 10% in New York at 52 dollars, the top of the range, under the ticker RACE, and the stock climbs on its first day. A LaFerrari and Vettel’s race car line up outside the exchange.
2016
CompanyIndependent at last, and listed in Milan
The split from Fiat Chrysler is complete. Marchionne, Piero Ferrari and John Elkann ring the bell in Milan, heirs of the men who struck the 1969 deal, and the share of freely traded stock rises from 10% to 66%.
2018
DesignThe Monza SP1 and SP2 start the Icona line
Inspired by the barchettas of the 1950s, these cars have the 812 Superfast’s V12 and open cockpits: one seat in the SP1, two in the SP2. Just 499 are built, and the Icona name becomes a new series for collectors.
- People
Marchionne dies suddenly
Days after resigning following complications from surgery, Ferrari’s chairman and chief executive dies at 66. John Elkann becomes chairman and Louis Camilleri chief executive, and they present his plan of 15 new cars in three years.
Hybrids and electrons
Plug-in hybrids, three Le Mans wins in a row, Lewis Hamilton in red and the first electric Ferrari.
2019
TechnologySF90 Stradale, the first plug-in Ferrari
Named for the 90th anniversary of the Scuderia, it pairs a V8 with electric motors for 1,000 cv. It is the first plug-in hybrid in Ferrari’s history, one of five new models in a record production year.
- Racing
Leclerc ends the wait at Monza
A week after his first Grand Prix win at Spa, the Ferrari Driver Academy product wins the Italian race, Ferrari’s first at home in nine years.
2020
RacingFerrari’s 1,000th Grand Prix, at Mugello
In a season reshaped by Covid-19, Formula 1 races at Mugello for the first time as a world championship round, under a title that names the milestone: Gran Premio della Toscana Ferrari 1000.
2021
PeopleA physicist takes over as chief executive
Benedetto Vigna, a physicist and technology executive, follows Louis Camilleri, who stepped down in December 2020 for personal reasons. He walks into Maranello days after a Le Mans win, with work on a first electric Ferrari ahead.
- Racing
A GT win at Le Mans, and a promise
James Calado, Côme Ledogar and Alessandro Pier Guidi win the LMGTE Pro class in a 488, and Ferrari’s 2021 season also brings the Spa 24 Hours. The same year, the company announces a return to endurance’s top class for 2023, 50 years after the 312 PB.
- New model
The 296 GTB, a real Ferrari with six cylinders
A 120-degree V6 with a plug-in motor delivers up to 830 cv. It is presented as the first true Ferrari with six cylinders, since the V6 Dinos of the 1960s and 1970s were marketed under their own badge.
- Design
The Daytona SP3 recalls a famous finish
The second Icona car takes its name from the 1967 24 Hours of Daytona, when three Ferrari prototypes crossed the line side by side. It is limited to 599 cars.
2022
RacingA one-two in Bahrain with the F1-75
New rules and a car named after the 75th anniversary end a slump. Charles Leclerc leads Carlos Sainz home for Ferrari’s first win since 2019, and the team ends the year second in the championship.
- New model
The Purosangue, Ferrari’s first four-door
After repeatedly denying it would build an SUV, Ferrari reveals a four-seat, four-door V12 and refuses the label, calling it a Ferrari Utility Vehicle.
- Racing
The 499P is unveiled
Shown at the Ferrari Finali Mondiali, the Hypercar ends a 50-year absence from the top class of endurance racing. It wins on its Le Mans debut the following June.
- People
Vasseur replaces Binotto
After four seasons in charge, Mattia Binotto makes way, and Fred Vasseur arrives from Sauber as team principal and general manager for 2023. He is the second French person to lead the team.
2023
RacingBack on top at Le Mans
The 499P of Alessandro Pier Guidi, James Calado and Antonio Giovinazzi wins the centenary race, the first outright victory in 58 years.
2024
PeopleFerrari signs Lewis Hamilton
The seven-time champion uses a release clause to leave Mercedes for 2025. His first win in red is the Sprint at the 2025 Chinese Grand Prix, and his first Grand Prix podium for the team comes in China a year later.
- Racing
A second Le Mans in a row
Antonio Fuoco, Miguel Molina and Nicklas Nielsen win in the number 50 499P after 311 laps. It is Ferrari’s 11th outright win, in a year that also brings a Hypercar win at Austin and second place in the F1 Constructors’ standings.
- Company
The e-building opens in Maranello
President Sergio Mattarella attends the opening of a new plant that raises capacity across the range, ready for combustion, hybrid and an upcoming electric model.
- New model
The F80, a supercar with a Le Mans heart
Named for the company’s 80th anniversary, it takes a 3.0-litre V6 from the 499P and adds three electric motors for 1,200 hp, the most of any road Ferrari. Only 799 are planned.
2025
RacingA customer car makes it three
The AF Corse 499P of Robert Kubica, Yifei Ye and Phil Hanson wins as a privateer entry, sealing Ferrari’s third straight Le Mans, in front of 332,000 spectators.
- New model
The Testarossa name returns, on a hybrid
Unveiled as the successor to the SF90 line, the 849 Testarossa uses a name last seen on a flat-12 for a plug-in hybrid V8. Ferrari claims the best power-to-weight ratio of any car in its range.
- Technology
Capital Markets Day shows the electric hardware
Investors see the development car, called Elettrica, seven months before the design goes public. Four independent motors are built in-house, including a Halbach array rotor taken from Formula 1.
2026
New modelThe Luce, the first electric Ferrari
Designed with Jony Ive and Marc Newson’s LoveFrom, the first full-electric Ferrari has four doors and five seats, and is priced at €550,000 in Europe. Montezemolo calls it the destruction of a myth, and the design divides fans.
- Racing
Toyota ends the Le Mans run
After three straight wins, Ferrari is beaten at the 2026 race by the number 7 Toyota of Mike Conway, Kamui Kobayashi and Nyck de Vries, which comes through a three-way fight with BMW and Cadillac.
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