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Enzo Ferrari
Enzo Ferrari was born in Modena, Italy, on February 18,1898.
While Enzo was still a youth, his father died, forcing the young man
to abandon his education. He found work as an instructor in the Modena
Fire Brigade's workshop.
He enlisted in the army during World War I and found himself shoeing
mules for the military. Upon his return in 1918, he became a test
driver in Turin before moving to Costruzioni Meccaniche Nazionali in
Milan to work as a test driver and a race car driver.
He made his racing debut in 1919. After retiring from a celebrated
rating career in 1929 at the age of 31, he returned to Modena and
oversaw mechanical work and started a racing club. During World War
II.
Ferrari moved his workshop from Modena to Maranello and began making
powered grinding machines for ball bearings. The workshop was bombed
in 1944. Ferrari rebuilt it in 1946 and went back to work designing
and building the first Ferrari automobile.
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