Ferrari's beginnings

Any car's brand has provoqued so much fanatism than Ferrari. It has a history full of adventures, disputes and problems. But it is impossible to understand the history of the "Cavallino Rampante" if we don't know a little bit of itss creator, Enzo Ferrari.

"Il Commendatore", as he was called, worked on races since 1919. Alfa Romeo realized his habilities and hired him in 1929 to fix its cars. There is where his history started, fixing Alfa Romeo cars on december 1st, 1929.

The repair shop was stablished in a Modena's garage, but because of its demand they had to move to a biggest building in the city. Even though Ferrari was the sport part of Alfa Romeo, it got own personality and attracting legendary pilots as Nuvolari in the early 30's. But the superiority of German cars as Mercedes or Auto Union, forced Ferrari to turn the team's way to get more money. In 1937, the 80% had to be sold to his company Alfa Romeo.

The braking point between Ferrari and Alfa Romeo was in 1938 when the second one decided to create its own sports line "Alfa Corse", the new part was formed by Enzo's mechanics. In this point, the garage in Módena was closed and they moved to Milán to work in the new project, there, Enzo had some problems with his new bosses and definetely quit from Alfa Romeo. But a clause in his contract prohibited him to use his name in car fabrication for the next four years.

In this way he founded "Auto Avio Costruzioni". Enzo's resentment with Alfa Romeo grew after the succes of the 158 (Alfetta), models of his own creation.

In 1943 the Industry desentralization law started working, so Auto Avio Costruzioni Industry had to move 16km to a little town called Maranello.

Once the Wold War II ended, Ferrari was able to build cars with his own name. In 1947 the 125 was built. Even though the firsts sports results were sponsored, the sales didn't help the brand because the cars were still handmade. Since 1951 Ferrari entered in the era of serie produccion with the 250, stabilizing its weak economy. One year before in 1950, it enteres in a new racing categorie, the F1.