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Enzowhether You Consider Him to Have Been Utterly Ruthless Or Merely Obsessively Focused, Enzo Ferrari Left an Automotive Le ENZO FERRARI THE MAN Whether you consider him to have been utterly ruthless or merely obsessively focused, Enzo Ferrari left an automotive legacy like no other. Doug Nye takes a personal look at the life of Il Drake – the man, the force of nature... simply, ENZOthe legend 58 / MAGNETO MAGNETO / 59 ENZO FERRARI SPITZLEY Make no mistake, Enzo Ferrari was the 20th century motoring ABOVE Enzo Ferrari, the racer, in 1922 – already forging close Earlier this year Mauro Forghieri – Mr Ferrari’s chief racing engineer world’s most renowned and revered individual. Almost links with Alfa Romeo at the company’s HQ in Portello, Milan. single-handedly he conceived, nurtured and consolidated the for 27 years – repeated what he’d told me in 1988 when I was writing planet’s premier high-performance brand – one whose exotic production cars on the shirt-tails of racing success. He E global stature exceeds that of even Mercedes-Benz, Rolls- reversed normal big-industry practice, and to achieve his an Autosport tribute to Enzo Anselmo Maria Ferrari – Mr Ferrari Royce, Ford and Porsche. The marque he created and ran objective he subordinated virtually everything else in life to under his own name from 1947 was – and remains – unique. the manic, almost obsessive direction and management of his – Il Commendatore – Il Drake – who’d just died aged 90. I’d asked Many auto makers have raced simply to promote and creation – his Modena and Maranello-based auto ‘boutique’. publicise their brands. But that absolutely was not Enzo During the 1960s – with Mr Ferrari already fully established Mauro what he considered to have been The Old Man’s greatest Ferrari’s way. From childhood he had been a committed racing- as a fully fledged legend – I had glimpsed him occasionally on car enthusiast. He had no interest in running a company that some of his practice-day-only visits to the Italian Grand Prix merely built production models for customer sale. Oh no. at Monza. Then, in 1973, I was given a mission by Tom attribute, and he thought hard before replying: “An understanding Instead, his master plan was always to build and campaign Wheatcroft – the larger-than-life character who’d created the racers, first and foremost, and then hopefully cover the cost Donington Collection of GP cars. He sent me to Modena in his of human weakness...” The merest chink in a talented man’s armour by also producing sister cars – the majority of them still brand-new Bristol transporter to collect a freshly restored eminently raceable – for private sale. The name of his game 3-litre flat-12 Ferrari 312B Formula 1 car – priced at £10,000… could, and would, be ruthlessly exploited to La Ferrari’s advantage. was to finance factory team activities… never merely to sell Tom’s driver, Arnold, and I rumbled all the way down in the 60 / MAGNETO MAGNETO / 61 ENZO FERRARI Bristol, and drew into the yard of the Ferrari company’s ABOVE RIGHT Enzo Ferrari and Antonio Brivio-Carlo Ongaro Assistenza Clienti building on Modena’s Viale Trento e Trieste. hustle the Alfa 8C-2300 to a win on the 1931 Bobbio-Penice. BELOW RIGHT Scuderia Ferrari at the Targa Abruzzo, Enzo It was just next door to the famous building that had housed the in hat and tie, running the Alfa Romeos at fearsome Pescara. Scuderia Ferrari Alfa Romeo racing operation from 1929-37. We were shown into one of the tiny waiting-room cubicles where billionaires, World Champion racing drivers, industry Then a door opened and the great man walked in. In moguls and assorted royalty had spent long hours being kept his 90th year he was still as ram-rod straight, as tall, as waiting for an audience with Mr Ferrari himself – for right dominating, as I recalled. He just moved more slowly. We there, Enzo was very much a king in his own castle. shook hands. No real eye contact – his tinted spectacles We were met by a tall, young man with a long face, inscrutable. He took his seat, the cameramen pulled focus, the prominent nose and hooded, sleepy eyes. I remember lighting man adjusted his floods – and (via Gozzi) we thinking: “He looks strangely familiar,” but I couldn’t think inevitably began the interview with some of the entirely why. He stuck out a hand and introduced himself as Piero predictable generalised questions that Il Drake had plainly Lardi. He was handling the sale. heard and adroitly fielded so often before. We then sat in that tiny waiting room, walled in by olive- Then I asked specifically about a visit made to his private green metal partitioning with frosted glass in the upper part of Scuderia back in 1933 by a group of British MG competitors each panel. The door was the same, except as I recall the in that year’s Mille Miglia, including Lord Howe and the frosted glass filled only half the window, the upper half being charismatic Sir Henry ‘Tim’ Birkin. I knew The Old Man had clear glazed. Then, during our dealings, a figure loomed outside always had a soft spot for very-British motor-racing gents. He the door. Questioning eyes peered through the glass. Lardi brightened up at that recollection, then laughed – two gold noticeably stiffened. He rose from his chair, stepped across to teeth flashing in his lower jaw – and I realised we were well set. the door and opened it. And there, come to see just who was He gave us 20 minutes or so before – over-confident – I buying one of his works team cars, was ‘The Old Man’ – ‘Il dropped the ball. I asked him something that had always Drake’ as the Italian press christened him – Mr Ferrari himself. intrigued me: “Mr Ferrari – could you explain for us how you I had no way of knowing then that the duo in the doorway made the successful transition from being so prominent were actually father and son. Mr Ferrari would acknowledge running your Scuderia Ferrari Alfa Romeo quasi-works team Piero’s paternity only after his wife, Signora Laura, had passed for the Mussolini Fascist regime in the 1930s, to emerging away – for Piero had been born to The Old Man’s long-time safely in near-communist Modena after World War Two and mistress, Lina Lardi, in 1945, at the end of World War Two. continuing racing for democratic Italy?” I was transfixed, gazing at the tall, straight-backed, I knew instantly I’d gone too far. Franco Gozzi blanched and dominating figure of this great man about whom I’d read and said: “You want me to ask that?” I felt myself nodding. I knew heard so much since childhood. Here was ‘Mr Motor Racing’ enough Italian then to realise that dear old Franco actually in person. I was a tongue-tied, awe-struck, 27-year-old fan… asked a different question: “Mr Nye seems to think your And Lardi had, I guess, explained that no, this young fellow company was nationalised. Could you explain how you got it was not actually Mr Wheatcroft from England, but merely a back after 1945…?” Such a fatuous, baseless question deserved representative. Mr Ferrari looked me up and down; I swear his a non-answer: “Pah! I’ve had enough – basta!” And Il Drake lip curled. We briefly shook hands – an electric moment – before waved one hand dismissively, turning in his chair to rise. he strode off. Piero visibly relaxed, and our deal was done. “Give them a book,” he snapped, adding as an emphatic after- Years later, in 1987, I fronted a BBC TV camera crew shooting thought: “Uno solo!” – “One only!” And that was that… a documentary interview with the great man, in his office at The great man had not got where he was by 1987 through Fiorano. His long-time PA Franco Gozzi would translate my being over generous. But what a truly extraordinary man he questions from English to Italian, and The Old Man consented was. From 1948 to when he sold control of his production to respond on-camera. We set up carefully in his empty office. division to Fiat in 1969-70, any prospective customer required I hardly ever get nervous, but I was that day. Mr Ferrari was Mr Ferrari’s approval to let him – or her – actually buy a car. elderly, unwell and tetchy. Ever-supportive Gozzi had told us Enzo had spent decades perfecting that image; the king in his that we might get ten minutes, we might get less… court, he loved being the spider lurking at the centre of his ‘His master plan was always to build and campaign racers, and then hopefully cover the cost by also producing sister cars for private sale’ SPITZLEY 62 / MAGNETO MAGNETO / 63 ENZO FERRARI LEFT Team founders Enzo Ferrari and Tony GP LIBRARY GP Vandervell (Vanwall) together at the 1953 Italian GP. The car, Squalo 553, was raced in Formula 2 in 1953 and Formula 1 the following season. ABOVE RIGHT In the build-up to the 1964 Sebring 12-hours, Vaccarella, Surtees, Parkes, Scarfiotti and Ferrari gather at Modena Autodrome. Behind them, 275P and 250GTO Series 2. BELOW RIGHT At Monza, Ferrari talks with MGM director John Frankenheimer, filming the 1966 movie Grand Prix around the circuits of Europe. BELOW Enzo was rarely seen without his trademark tinted eyeglasses due to sensitivity to bright light; this pair is one of a limited edition of replicas that sold out almost immediately at the 2012 opening of the Museo Casa Enzo Ferrari in Modena.
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