Ferrari Mailing List: Re: Enzo Ferrai passed away today in 1988

[Fellippe Galletta (fellippe.galletta]

Nice!!

My favorites:

"Nuvolari lived a life of passionate risk, yet he died, humiliated, in
hospital: humiliated because he was unable to die in a race."

"I am not the designer. Other people do that. I am an agitator of men."

"I want to build a car that’s faster than all of them, and then I want to die."




On 8/15/14, Robert W. Garven Jr. <rgarven [at] gmail.com> wrote:
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> Words to live by
>
> "I want to build a car that’s faster than all of them…"
>
> "To build a car… that flies without leaving the ground…"
>
> "Aerodynamics is for those who cannot manufacture good engines."
>
> "I married the 12 cylinder engine and I never divorced it."
>
> "I have always loved the sound of the engine…"
>
> "The demands of mass production are contrary to my temperament…"
>
> "I should like to put something new into my cars every morning – an
> inclination that terrifies my staff."
>
> "Bad luck does not exist."
>
> "A man has no need of entertainment. Entertainment only distracts from his
> duty. If a man has his duty, that is enough."
>
> [After serving in World War I] "No money, no experience, limited education.
> All I had was a passion to get somewhere."
>
> [On the most important race victory the team had achieved] "That which is
> yet to be won.
> The one which I have not yet achieved."
>
> [On which Ferrari model he liked the most] "That which is yet to be built.
> The car which I have not yet created."
>
> "My cars must be beautiful."
>
> "The Ferrari is a dream - people dream of owning this special vehicle and
> for most people it will remain a dream apart from for those lucky few."
>
> "If you see what a competitor is doing and it is better than what you are
> doing, you have to surpass them to ensure your cars are better."
>
> "I am convinced, that when a man tells a woman he loves her, he only means
> that he desires her; and that the only total love in this world is that of a
> father for his son."
>
> "It is… not so much inventions which are needed as conscientious
> elaboration."
>
> "All the innovations learnt from racing experience can find practical
> application in the normal production models…"
>
> "If I am unable to see the defects in the machines I create myself, how can
> I see properly into myself?"
>
> "I think of myself as constantly realizing a childhood dream."
>
> "If they are good ideas, then they will work."
>
> "The client is not always right."
>
> [To Ferruccio Lamborghini] "I build sports cars, you build tractors. You
> should stick to building tractors."
>
> "When I see a car which uses one litre or 1.2 litres of fuel for every
> kilometre it travels, I ask myself, ‘Is this a racing car or is it a tank
> wagon?’ "
>
> [On what has been his philosophy in designing his machines] "I should say
> rather that I remember the first impression I had in 1919 of an American car
> which had raced at Indianapolis. It was a 12 cylinder Packard. From that
> moment I married the 12 cylinder engine and I never divorced it."
>
> [On John Surtees who turns up in his much-loved BMW] "Beh, macchina tedesco
> – no, you must drive a Ferrari."
>
> [On Peppino not being at his side one day a year at Easter] "When you need
> him, he’s never here."
>
> "If you like this car, we’ll make it. If you don’t, we won’t."
>
> [As a young man] "Who am I in this world?"
>
> [His motto ‘Divide et imperare’] "Divide and reign."
>
> "You have to have courage to stand up to your critics."
>
> "I am not the designer. Other people do that. I am an agitator of men."
>
> [As a child sharing a bedroom with his brother over his father’s workshop]
> "We were awakened in the morning by the ringing of hammers. My father… acted
> as the manager, the designer, the salesman and the typist of his firm all at
> the same time."
>
> [On the pink marble staircase in his parents house] "The only luxury."
>
> [On his childhood ambitions – To be] "an opera singer, a sports writer, and
> lastly a racing driver."
>
> "I was alone. My father and my brother were no more…"
>
> "We found ourselves in a blizzard, and we were chased by wolves. They were
> put to flight, however, by shots from the revolver I always kept under the
> seat cushion, and by the arrival of a group of road gangers armed with
> torches and guns."
>
> [On being introduced to the mother of the late fighter ace in whose squadron
> his brother Dino had served] Countess Paolina [Baracca]. "It was she who
> told me one day, ‘Ferrari, put the prancing horse of my son on your racing
> car. It will bring you luck.’ I still keep the photograph of Baracca with
> the dedication by the parents in which they entrusted me with the emblem.
> The horse was, and has remained, black, but I myself added the yellow
> background, this being the colour of Modena."
>
> "What has instructed all of the world’s builders of safe, efficient cars?
> Auto racing. Any theory, any laboratory experiment needs practical support,
> and only the race can offer it because during the race the driver submits
> the car and its parts to intense, unpredictable, unthinkable testing."
>
> "I picked up the torch laid down by Alfa Romeo in 1937."
>
> "Equally valuable lessons are learned in defeat and victory."
>
> [On rejecting a corporate merger between Ferrari and Ford] "My rights, my
> integrity, my very being as a manufacturer, as an entrepreneur, as the
> leader of the Ferrari works, cannot work under the enormous machine, the
> suffocating bureaucracy of the Ford Motor Company!"
>
> [On his legendary 1962 red racing car] "Gran Turismo Omologato."
>
> "I remember with how much insistence, with which arguments and how much
> competent attention Dino observed and discussed all the memorandums that I
> took home to him every day from Maranello. Finally, a selection was made in
> favour of a V6 for reasons of mechanical yield and bulk. That is how the
> famous 156 was born…"
>
> [On his cars] "They have more horsepower, and they don’t break down."
>
> "A man builds something, a beautiful machine. He puts all of himself into
> it. And then he goes to races and see his machines, this part of himself,
> being maltreated, and… [Putting his hand over his heart] And so I do not go
> to races because it hurts me – here."
>
> [‘You mean you suffer for the car, not the driver?’] "The driver too, of
> course."
>
> [On why he didn’t demonstrate emotion if one of his race drivers was killed]
> "My teacher Antonio Ascari [A great racing driver], told me that he didn’t
> show any sentiment with his wife and son because he didn’t want them to feel
> so badly when he was gone."
>
> [On giving credit to the drivers for Ferrari being what it is today] "It’s
> because of you, because of what you’ve risked, because of what you have
> created for us that we are what we are."
>
> [In 1965] "My loyalty to Shell springs from my experience with automobiles.
> 14 world championships have resulted from this happy association with
> Shell."
>
> [In 1952] "The victory of Alberto Ascari in one of our Ferrari cars in the
> 22nd Grand Prix of Italy at 115.547 miles per hour average, established new
> all-time records for the Monza track, and also established the highest speed
> attained in European circuits."
>
> [In 1952] "We attribute a great deal of the merit of our success in the
> Grand Prix of England, Grand Prix of Italy and the Mexican Pan-American Race
> to the magnificent performance and unfailing dependability of Champion Spark
> Plugs."
>
> "What life means to a young man who is leaving it?"
>
> [On his son Dino Ferrari passing away] "The match is lost. I have lost my
> son… The only thing I can say is: God, help me to be a good man."
>
> "All we wanted to do was to build a conventional engine, the only one that
> would be outstanding."
>
> [On the Mille Miglia race in 1957] "It is the race of the people. One may
> say that the whole of Italy leans forward with her eyes on the tarred strip
> of road somewhere along the course on Mille Miglia day. It is a day when I
> feel my life is useful."
>
> [In 1957 on being served court papers on a Ferrari driver racing death in
> the Mille Miglia race] "Why should I continue in an activity whose only
> reward is being branded a murderer?"
>
> "It does not seem to me that I have ever committed a bad act."
>
> "I have regretted often, but repented never. Is this a good thing?"
>
> "It is my opinion that there are innate gifts that are a peculiarity of
> certain regions and that, transferred into industry, these propensities may
> at times acquire an exceptional importance… In Modena, where I was born and
> set up my own works, there is a species with psychosis for racing cars."
>
> [On being a passenger with Tazio Nuvolari (‘The Flying Mantuan’) during
> pre-race practice] "At the first bend, I had the clear sensation that we
> would end up in a ditch; I felt myself stiffen as I waited for the crunch.
> Instead, we found ourselves on the next straight with the car in a perfect
> position. I looked at Nuvolari. His rugged face was calm, just as it always
> was, and certainly not the face of someone who had just escaped a
> hair-raising spin."
>
> "I want to build a car that’s faster than all of them, and then I want to
> die."
>
> "The dream became bigger, much bigger, to build a car, that doesn’t slow in
> the curves, that flies without leaving the ground…"
>
> "I don't sell cars; I sell engines. The cars I throw in for free since
> something has to hold the engines in."
>
> [In 1980] "I asked myself, why can’t I myself become a great racing driver
> one day? And all my acts after that were merely the consequence of an
> adolescent dream."
>
> [When he wanted to eulogise his driver Gilles Villeneuve] "I see a little of
> [Tazio] Nuvolari in you."
>
> [On his first Ferrari Grand Prix] "If it had gone badly, I had decided I
> would stop this type of activity with a Grand Prix car, which revealed
> itself an ambition that was too demanding for my means."
>
> "If it goes badly, I’m not going to spend money on this kind of motor sport
> any more."
>
> "In Maranello, I created a factory that made cars known all over the world.
> Fiat turned it into a real industrial concern."
>
> "Ever since I built the first 1500, I had had ambitious plans for launching
> out into the manufacture of high quality cars. I remembered that I had
> joined Alfa Romeo when they were endeavouring to produce a car per day, and
> I too had hopes of achieving this same target."
>
> "The demands of mass production are contrary to my temperament, for I am
> mainly interested in promoting new developments. I should like to put
> something new into my cars every morning – an inclination that terrifies my
> staff. Were my wishes in this respect to be indulged, there would be no
> production of standard models at all, but only a succession of prototypes."
>
> [In 1963] "There is little that I try out in today’s cars which has not
> already been tried in the past – perhaps in a hurried or summary manner –
> and discarded before its real possibilities were full ascertained. It is
> consequently not so much inventions which are needed as conscientious
> elaboration."
>
> "I underestimated the importance of the chassis. I have always given great
> importance to the engine and much less to the chassis, endeavouring to
> squeeze out as much power as possible in the conviction that it is engine
> power which is – not 50% but 80% responsible for success on the track."
>
> "Just as many people had predicted our 12 cylinder turned out to be the
> crowning glory of my ambitions, the basis of all Ferrari engines."
>
> "I gave the 4, 6 and 8 cylinder a chance. We even built a bi-cylinder. But
> the classical 12 cylinder engine remains my trademark and certainly the most
> popular of my engines."
>
> "When one has this extra power, chassis deficiencies are not a handicap, but
> when competitors have engines of a power approaching one’s own and as
> reliable as one’s own, then they suddenly become important."
>
> "Most of my life, I have concealed myself."
>
> "Most people think I’m hard, but that is because I don’t want people to know
> me. I consider myself weak and so I put on a kind of mask. I put it on to
> hide."
>
> "I live a life of constant self-examination. Consideration of the
> hallucinating fragility of life has taught me to question everything about
> myself."
>
> "I go every morning to the cemetery to see my son who died 25 years ago.
> Knowing that a man is nothing without death. It is death which gives him
> personality."
>
> [At the age of 80] "I don’t believe there is such a thing as happiness.
> Happiness is never unmixed."
>
> "I have always given the public the least possible about myself."
>
> "I never tell a lie. Liars lead very complex lives and I am simply afraid of
> getting caught out. So people conclude that I am cunning."
>
> "If I go to see people, they have an opinion of me, ready-made. But if they
> come here, what they see is also about what I have created."
>
> "Our proverb runs: ‘He who has his health is rich and doesn’t know it.’ You
> consider the essential fragility of life."
>
> "It is the little things that get me angry. The great traumas are easier:
> you can always work your way through to reason."
>
> "What we do at Ferrari is elite work."
>
> "I am a promoter of ideas: I have to sell ideas which will then be realized
> by others."
>
> "I don’t think there’s a car in the world that hasn’t yet been improved by
> competition, a car which hasn’t been influenced by others."
>
> "There are superb designers working today, but the basic idea, the working
> out of that idea, the construction of the machine, the finishing of a new
> idea, is always the work of a team. It is a compendium. A collaborative
> effort."
>
> "A car maker need be neither an engineer nor a technician. He must be
> someone who loves his passion for cars and he must be someone who knows a
> lot about human beings. His job is to harmonize the ambitions of his
> collaborators."
>
> "I give my collaborators a great trust. Complete trust. That is the only way
> to see if they merit it. If they are good, they’ll do everything they can to
> show their gratitude; if they’re not what better way to bring on their
> mistakes?"
>
> "The real Gran Turismo Ferrari is an offshoot of my racing cars."
>
> "The racing cars are our most effective way of making the Ferrari way known,
> and selling what we produce."
>
> "Of course I have some regrets about my career: I am bitter at my stupidity
> in not keeping at least one example of all the models we have built since
> 1940!"
>
> "The greatest drivers were distinguished by their supreme ability to handle
> any kind of situation, any car, any driving condition, any kind of race."
>
> "Nuvolari lived a life of passionate risk, yet he died, humiliated, in
> hospital: humiliated because he was unable to die in a race."
>
> "A driver today is an athlete out for hire, his mind is on profit."
>
> "The world creates idols only to destroy them. Why? Because the public is
> avid for emotion."
>
> "I think fundamentally I belong to another time…"
>
> "Fear is the ultimate leverage of power."
>
> "Because the constructor remembers all his errors; he knows the paths which
> have lead nowhere. It takes endless time. It is like a Kafka story: there is
> this long corridor and all the doors are shut, yet you have to find a way
> out."
>
> "I am a man who has lived an adventure."
>
> "Don’t let it get you down. Things always right themselves if you only give
> them time." -quote from Dino Ferrari (Enzo's son)
> Robert W. Garven Jr.
> rgarven [at] gmail.com
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>  "The Ferrari is a dream - people dream of owning this special vehicle and
> for most people it will remain a dream apart from for those lucky few." Enzo
> Ferrari
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