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==History== [[File:Alfa-Romeo-2900-Scuderia-Ferrari-maroon-fa-lr.jpg|thumb|left|[[Alfa Romeo 8C]] 2900 Scuderia Ferrari]] Scuderia Ferrari was founded by [[Enzo Ferrari]] in 1929 to enter amateur drivers in various races.<ref name="f1i.com">F1i.com: [http://f1i.com/teams/ferrari Ferrari | F1i.com], access-date: 10. February 2019</ref> Ferrari himself had raced in Costruzioni Meccaniche Nazionali and [[Alfa Romeo]] cars before that date. The idea came about on the night of 16 November at a dinner in [[Bologna]], where Ferrari solicited financial help from textile heirs Augusto and Alfredo Caniato and wealthy amateur racer Mario Tadini. He then gathered a team which at its peak included over forty drivers, most of whom raced in various [[Alfa Romeo 8C]] cars; Ferrari himself continued racing, with moderate success, until the birth of his first son [[Alfredo Ferrari|Dino]] in 1932. The prancing horse blazon first appeared at the 1932 [[Spa 24 Hours]] in Belgium on a two-car team of [[Alfa Romeo 8C]] 2300 Spiders, which finished first and second. In 1933, Alfa Romeo experienced economic difficulties and withdrew its team from racing. From then, the Scuderia Ferrari became the acting racing team of Alfa Romeo when the factory released to the Scuderia the up to date [[Monoposto]] Tipo B racers. In 1935, Enzo Ferrari and Luigi Bazzi built the [[Alfa Romeo Bimotore]], the first car to wear a Ferrari badge on the radiator cowl. Ferrari managed numerous established drivers (notably [[Tazio Nuvolari]], [[Giuseppe Campari]], [[Achille Varzi]], and [[Louis Chiron]]) and several talented rookies (Mario Tadini, [[Guy Moll]], [[Carlo Maria Pintacuda]], and [[Antonio Brivio]]) from his headquarters in Viale Trento e Trieste, [[Modena, Italy]], until 1938, at which point Alfa Romeo made him the manager of the factory racing division, [[Alfa Corse]]. Alfa Romeo had bought the shares of the Scuderia Ferrari in 1937 and transferred, from 1 January 1938,<ref name="Henry12">{{cite book| last = Henry| first = Alan| author-link = Alan Henry| title = Ferrari β The Grand Prix Cars| publisher=Hazleton| page = 12| edition = 2nd| year = 1989}}</ref> the official racing activity to [[Alfa Corse]] whose new buildings were being erected next to the Alfa factory at [[Portello, Milan]]. The Viale Trento e Trieste facilities remained active to assist the racing customers. [[File:Piloti Alfa Romeo 2.JPG|thumb|left|[[Enzo Ferrari]] (first from left), [[Tazio Nuvolari]] (fourth), and [[Achille Varzi]] (sixth) with [[Alfa Romeo]] managing director Prospero Gianferrari (third) at Colle Maddalena]] Enzo Ferrari disagreed with this policy change and was dismissed by Alfa in 1939. In October 1939, Enzo Ferrari left Alfa when the racing activity stopped and founded Auto Avio Costruzioni Ferrari, which also manufactured machine tools. The agreement with Alfa included the condition that he would not use the Ferrari name on cars for four years. In the winter of 1939β1940, Ferrari started work on a racecar of his own, the [[Auto Avio Costruzioni 815|Tipo 815]] (eight cylinders, 1.5 L displacement).<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kW5eCAAAQBAJ&q=Ferrari+working+tipo+815+1939&pg=PT16|title=Collection Editions: Ferrari In Formula One|last=Buckland|first=Damien|date=4 February 2015|publisher=Lulu Press, Inc|isbn=9781326174880}}</ref> The 815s, designed by [[Alberto Massimino]], were thus the first true Ferrari cars. After [[Alberto Ascari]] and the Marchese Lotario Rangoni Machiavelli di Modena drove them in the 1940 [[Mille Miglia]], [[World War II]] put a temporary end to racing and the 815s saw no more competition. Ferrari continued to manufacture machine tools (specifically oleodynamic grinding machines). In 1943, he moved his headquarters to [[Maranello]], where it was bombed in November 1944 and February 1945.<ref>{{cite news |title=Ferrari marks its first seven decades throughout 2017 |url=https://www.hemmings.com/stories/2017/04/11/ferrari-marks-its-first-seven-decades-throughout-2017 |access-date=11 August 2023 |work=hemmings.com |date=11 April 2017 |quote=... was twice targeted by Allied bombing raids, in 1944 and 1945.}} </ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Aversa |first1=Paolo |last2=Schreiter |first2=Katrin |last3=Guerrini |first3=Filippo |title=The Birth of a Business Icon through Cultural Branding: Ferrari and the Prancing Horse, 1923β1947 |journal=Enterprise & Society |date= 26 July 2021 |volume=24 |issue=1 |pages=28β58 |doi=10.1017/eso.2021.22 |url=https://openaccess.city.ac.uk/id/eprint/25916/<!--https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/9b97b5f4ec81eb8285d7eadc294442e6c00ee8c0 https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/The-Birth-of-a-Business-Icon-through-Cultural-and-Aversa-Schreiter/9b97b5f4ec81eb8285d7eadc294442e6c00ee8c0--> |access-date=11 August 2023 |publisher=Business History Conference | s2cid = 237737650 |issn=1467-2235 | eissn = 1467-2235 |quote=... the Ferrari plants were bombed twice, first in November 1944 and then in February 1945.}} [[City Research Online]]. <!--See also: * [https://openaccess.city.ac.uk/id/eprint/25916/3/Aversa_Schreiter_Guerrini_2021_EandS.pdf PDF] {{free access}} * Aversa, Paolo, Katrin Schreiter, and Filippo Guerrini. "[https://muse.jhu.edu/article/885717/summary The Birth of a Business Icon through Cultural Branding: Ferrari and the Prancing Horse, 1923β1947.]" Enterprise & Society 24, no. 1 (2023): 28-58. [[Project MUSE]] * [https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/enterprise-and-society/article/abs/birth-of-a-business-icon-through-cultural-branding-ferrari-and-the-prancing-horse-19231947/8EB465DB99A0DE21231E6B3CD2B86AA2 The Birth of a Business Icon through Cultural Branding: Ferrari and the Prancing Horse, 1923β1947] - Enterprise & Society [[Cambridge Core]].--></ref> Rules for a Grand Prix World Championship had been discussed before the war; it took several years afterwards for the series to become active. Meanwhile, Ferrari rebuilt his works in Maranello and constructed the 12-cylinder, 1.5 L [[Ferrari Tipo 125|Tipo 125]], which competed at several non-championship Grands Prix. The car made its debut at the [[1948 Italian Grand Prix]] with [[Raymond Sommer]] and achieved its first win at the minor Circuito di Garda with [[Giuseppe Farina]]. After the four-year condition expired, the road car company was called Ferrari [[S.p.A.]], while the name SEFAC (SocietΓ Esercizio Fabbriche Automobili e Corse) was used for the racing department.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.fundinguniverse.com/company-histories/ferrari-s-p-a-history/|title=Ferrari S.p.A. History|website=fundinguniverse.com|access-date=19 November 2020}}</ref> ===Headquarters=== The team was based in [[Modena]] from its pre-war founding until 1943, when Enzo Ferrari moved the team to a new factory in [[Maranello]] in 1943,<ref name="Henry13">{{cite book| last = Henry| first = Alan| author-link = Alan Henry| title = Ferrari β The Grand Prix Cars| publisher=Hazleton| page = 13| edition = 2nd| year = 1989}}</ref> and both Scuderia Ferrari and Ferrari's road car factory remain at Maranello to this day. The team owns and operates a test track on the same site, the [[Fiorano Circuit]] built in 1972, which is used for testing road and race cars. ===Identity=== The team is named after its founder [[Enzo Ferrari]]. ''Scuderia'' is Italian for a stable reserved for racing horses,<ref>{{Cite web |title=Scuderia β Dizionario italiano-inglese WordReference |url=https://www.wordreference.com/iten/scuderia |access-date=11 February 2024 |website=Wordreference.com}}</ref> and is also commonly applied to Italian motor racing teams. The prancing horse was the symbol used on Italian [[World War I]] ace [[Francesco Baracca]]'s fighter plane. It became the logo of Ferrari after the fallen ace's parents, close acquaintances of Enzo Ferrari, suggested that Ferrari use the symbol as the logo of the ''Scuderia'', telling him it would "bring him good luck".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://eng.museobaracca.it/The-prancing-horse|title=The prancing horse|publisher=Museo Francesco Baracca|access-date=30 January 2016}}</ref>
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