Lamborghini Formula 1 Engine: Five Years, 49 Starts, No Wins
The Lamborghini Formula 1 engine: five years of Forghieri’s V12, the podium the FIA erased, the Lambo 291 and the 1993 McLaren test with Senna.
Mauro Forghieri
FERRARI 512 BB
Ferrari 512 BB: The Boxer That Never Was There is a Ferrari where almost nothing written on the car turns out to be true. The engine is not a boxer, despite half a century of the factory saying it is. The two letters in the name do not mean what Ferrari says they mean, according … Read more
ENZO FERRARI
The Man Who Built the Most Recognisable Brand on Earth and Buried Eight of His Drivers The official newspaper of the Vatican compared him to Saturn devouring his own children. Not a rival. Not a bitter ex-driver. Not some leftist tabloid sniffing around for controversy. L’Osservatore Romano. The official newspaper of the Holy See. In … Read more
FERRARI 330 P4
Ferrari 330 P4: The Most Perfect Reply To a Humiliation Ferrari never answered Ford with words. Ferrari answered with a photograph. Daytona, 5 February 1967, half past three in the afternoon. Three red cars crossing the finish line side by side, shoulder to shoulder, drivers revving their engines like men spitting in their rivals’ faces. … Read more
MAURO FORGHIERI
MAURO FORGHIERI: The Engineer Who Held Ferrari Together for 27 Years and Got a Decorative Office in Return Picture this. You’re 26. You’ve been at Ferrari for one year. Last week, every senior engineer in the place walked out at once. You’re the only qualified engineer left because you happen to be the youngest one … Read more
FERRARI 512S
THE WAR FERRARI LOST AGAINST ITSELF. June 1969 Enzo Ferrari signs the papers. Fifty percent of his company is no longer his. He has just sold it to Fiat. In exchange he receives a brutal sum of money that he needs for a single reason: to build a car capable of beating Porsche. The Porsche … Read more
FERRARI FLAT V12
Ferrari’s Flat V12 Engines: Why They Howl and Why Nothing Else Sounds the Same Some sounds are burned into memory forever. The rumble of an American V8 at idle. The shriek of a Japanese four-cylinder at 9,000 rpm. But no mechanical sound in automotive history comes close to the supernatural howl of a Ferrari horizontally-opposed … Read more