lly to the post of Director of the Alfa Racing Division. Enzo Ferrari held that position until 1939 (“Official” np).In 1929, Enzo Ferrari formed Scuderia Ferrari. The primary purpose and objective of this organization was to organize racing for the members belonging to Scuderia Ferrari. This was the start of Enzo’s intense involvement in racing, leading to the creation of an official team. The official team transformed Scuderia Ferrari into an engineering-racing division of Alfa Romeo. Scuderia Ferrari eventually took over the entire racing division in 1933. In the year of 1940, Scuderia Ferrari went independent of Alfa Romeo. Scuderia Ferrari’s official company name then became Auto Avio Costruzioni Ferrari. Part of the severance contract between Scuderia Ferrari and Alfa Romeo was that Enzo Ferrari could not build cars in his own name for four years. Nevertheless, Auto Avio Costruzioni Ferrari immediately began designing and studying racecars (“Official” np). Enzo saw destruction again in 1943 with the outset of World War II. During the war, Auto Avio Costruzioni Ferrari began making powered grinding machines for ball bearings (np). The company later moved production from Modena to Maranello, Italy, and the factory was soon bombed out in 1944 (np). In 1946, the Auto Avio Costruzioni Ferrari factory was rebuilt and renamed Ferrari, which started the designing and building of the first Ferrari (“History” np; “Official” np).Enzo Ferrari was fifty years of age by the time he had his first car built in his name (“Birthday” np). The first car to leave the Maranello factory in 1947 was a red Barchetta with a V-12 engine (“Official” np). The Ferrari red, typical of so many Ferraris, was the color assigned to any Italian racecar in the Grand Prix Races by the International Automobile Federation early last century. There are actually sixteen diff...
