Maranello, journey into the Ferrari myth between successes, innovations and sacrifice

A day in the Factory, where every year they assemble 13 thousand supercars plus F.1 and GT cars. All limited editions including bodies, bolts and… miniskirts

From those five windows he controlled what was happening, who was coming in and who was going out. He was always the last to leave (late at night), he didn’t take the lift and he never went on holiday. On the desk, a Corsican red lamp, a Modena yellow ashtray, the purple pen (which reminded him of his father Alfredo and his signature with a pencil), the diary and the Cavallino. Then the trophies and the cabinet of mistakes, those pieces that turned out badly: “because you learn from mistakes”, he taught. Enzo Ferrari’s office, at the entrance to the Citadel, the Rossa factory in via Abetone in Maranello, opened 77 years ago, says what the Commander was made of (maniacal passion and hunger for victory).

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