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                         The Ferrari story

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How do you react when you see a Ferrari on road or television??? Surely high speed, terrific performance, luxury comes to your mind and obviously adrenaline rush in body and soul. If you are a automobile enthusiast then you are also a big fan of Ferrari. The name which company has earned through it's consistent efforts and determination to deliver the best, had made them world leader in automotive in past as well as in present. Here, in this blog you will come to know some unknown curves in Ferrari's journey till now.             

                       First look of Ferrari

The famous symbol of the Ferrari race team is a black prancing stallion on a yellow shield, usually with the letters S F (for Scuderia Ferrari), with three stripes of green, white and red (the Italian national colours) at the top. On June 17, 1923, Enzo Ferrari won a race at the Savio track in Ravenna where he met the Countess Paolina, mother of Count Francesco Baracca, an ace of the Italian air force and national hero of World War I, who used to paint a horse on the side of his planes. The Countess asked Enzo to use this horse on his cars, suggesting that it would bring him good luck. Baracca's airoplan was painted in red on a white cloud-like shape, but Ferrari chose to have the horse in black (as it had been painted as a sign of grief on Baracca's squadron planes after the pilot was killed in action) and he added a canary yellow background as this is the colour of the city of Modena.

                           The Enzo Ferrari

Enzo Ferrari

 In 1929 Enzo formed Scuderia Ferrari, a private enterprise to race Alfa Romeos. The Scuderia (roughly translated - a stable, but in such a context-team) quickly started winning races Enzo Anselmo Ferrari (pronounced { ntso an' selmo fer'rari} (February 18, 1898 - August 14, 1988) cavaliere di Gran Croce OMRI  was an italian race car driver and entrepreneur, the founder of the Scuderia Ferrari Grand Prix motor racing team, and subsequently of the ferrrari manufacturer. He was often referred to as "il Commendatore". Having no other job prospects, Ferrari eventually settled for a job at a smaller car company called CMN (Costruzioni Meccaniche Nazionali) He took up racing in 1919 on the CMN team, but had little initial success. He left CMN in 1920 to work at Alfa Romeo and racing their cars in local races he had more success. His successes in local races encouraged Alfa to offer him a chance of much more prestigious competition. Ferrari turned this opportunity down and did not race again until 1927. The First World War killed both his father and brother in 1916. Enzo was enlisted in the third Alpine Artillery of the Italian army until he contracted the deadly flu at the end of the war. He survived. He continued to work directly for Alfa Romeo until 1929 before starting Scuderia Ferrari as the racing team for Alfa. Ferrari managed the development of the factory Alfa cars, and built up a team of over forty drivers, Ferrari himself continued racing until 1932.

                                         Ferrari on the road

125 sport (the first Ferrari in 1947)

The first Ferrari road car was the 1947 125 sport, powered by a 1.5 L V12 engine; Enzo reluctantly built and sold his automobiles to fund the Scuderia. It debut on March 12 1947.The Ferrari 125 S (named after the 125cc unit displacement of a single cylinder as most of the future Ferrari models will also do) was designed by by Gioachino Colombo and finished by Giuseppe Busso. While his beautiful and blazingly fast cars quickly gained a reputation for excellence, the corporation subsidised produced race cars and drivers prior to moving into manufacture of cars that are legal on the street in year 1947.Ferrari is a sports car producer that started in Maranello, Italy. Started as Scuderia Ferrari in the year 1929 by Enzo Ferrari. Enzo maintained a famous distaste for his customers, most of whom he felt were buying his cars for the prestige and not the performance.

                         Ferrari on track

Jose Froilan Gonzalez

Phil Hill

Scuderia Ferrari is the racing team division of the Ferrari automobile marque. Formula 1 team Ferrari have been the most successful and oldest team in the sport. The team currently only races in formula one but has competed in numerous classes of motor sport since its formation in 1929, including sports car racing. though by 1947 Ferrari had begun building their own cars. It is the oldest surviving team in Grand Prix racing, having competed since 1932, and statistically the most successful Formula One team in history with a record of 15 driver's championship. As a constructor, Ferrari has 16 constructor championships and has secured 205 pole positions.

 Ferrari joined Formula 1 in 1950 and next year, Jose F. Gonzalez marked Ferrari’s first grand prix victory in Britain. In 1960s, Phil Hill and John Surtees won the championships. In 1970s, Niki Lauda, Jody Scheckter and Gilles Villeneuve won the crown of the drivers’ championship the 1983 constructors’ championship, Ferrari entered into its darkest phase in history. In 1996 when Michael Schumacher joined the team. In 1999, Michael Schumacher missed six rounds due to a broken leg at Silverstone but the team won the constructors’ championship.It was from the year 2000 to 2004 when the team re-wrote the history of Formula 1 Championship by winning consecutive drivers’ championships, which was the longest victory streak in the history of the sport team won the constructors’ championship from 1999-2004 and drivers’ championships from 2000-2004. Since 2005, Ferrari Formula 1 team has been struggling due to many underlying reasons, one of which is the changes in the team’s management and especially the departure of Todt in 2007. In 2011, Fernando Alonso had shown some remarkable driving even struggling with the new Pirelli tyres and won at Silverstone.  On 10 July 2011, during the British Grand Prix meeting, González was honoured by the Ferrari team and the FIA on the 60th anniversary of Ferrari's first Formula One World Championship race victory. There is a strong need for the team to improve its technical aspects through the overall team efforts, only then Ferrari can bring its old legacy back. But fan's hope that Ferrari will return to it's old glory