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Scuderia Ferrari began competing in the Formula One World Championship in 1950, the year the competition was established. In
fact the Ferrari team missed the very rst race of the new Championship, the 1950 British Grand Prix due to a dispute about the ‘start money’ paid to entrants. The team nally debuted in the Monaco Grand Prix with the 125 F1 sporting a supercharged version of the 125 V12 and Alberto Ascari driving.
Scuderia Ferrari - the Ferrari racing stables story began in May 1947 when the rst car built under the Ferrari marque, the twelve-cylinder 1.5 litre Tipo 125s, drove through the historic factory gates on Via Abertone Inferiore in Maranello, Italy. A Formula One version of the Tipo 125 - the Ferrari 125 F1 was developed in 1948 and entered in several Grands Prix, at this time the World Championship had not been established.
That said, Ferrari’s origins are inextricably linked to its founder’s entire life story. Born in Modena on February the 18th 1898 - Enzo Ferari passed away on August the 14th 1988, having devoted his entire life to motor racing. Ferrari started as a works driver in 1924 for Alfa Romeo, but just ve years later set up the Scuderia Ferrari at Viale Trieste in Modena to allow its mostly gentlemen driver members to compete. In 1938 Ferrari was appointed head of Alfa Corse. However, he left in 1939 to start up Auto Avio Costruzioni in the Scuderia’s old headquarters.
His new company founded, Enzo Ferrari built a sports car, a spider powered by a 1500cc 8 cylinder engine, he called it the 815 and two were built. The car also took part in the 1940 Mille Miglia. Unfortunately the outbreak of World War II bought all motor racing to an abrupt end.
In late 1943 Ferrari moved Auto Avio Costruzioni’s workshop from Modena to Maranello.
At the end of the war Ferrari set about building what was to become the rst Ferrari, the 125s 1.5 litre, 12 cylinder race car. Franco Cortese drove the car in its maiden race at the Piacenza Circuit on May 11th 1947 and again to its rst victory in the Rome Grand Prix at the Terme di Caracalla Circuit on the 25th of the same month.
A total of 109 drivers have driven for Ferrari in the Formula One World Championship. Thirty eight of which have won at least one Grand Prix.
Signi cantly, the Constructor’s World Championship title (which has had various different names) only came into being in 1958, if it had been launched in tandem with the driver’s Championship, however, Ferrari would also have won it in 1952, 1953 and 1956.
Driver’s Champions include Alberto Ascari (1952 and 1953), Juan Manuel Fangio (1956), Mike Hawthorn (1958), Phil Hill (1961), John Surtees (1964), Niki Lauda (1975 and 1977), Jodie
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