Enzo reacted to their win over the previously invincible Alfetta 159's by simply saying, "I have killed my own mother!" ("Enzo Ferrari", para 6), which ironically held some truth. It just so happened that Aurelio Lampredi developed both the 1.5-liter engine of the Alfetta's and the engine that powered Ferrari to win the Grad Prix ("Enzo Ferrari", paras 6-7). Ferrari's first years in the formula one circuit were off to a very good start considering that Ferrari had won the drivers championship 2 years straight in their first 5 years in competition (Jones and Hill, 1997). From the beginning it was clear that Ferrari was going to be a force to be reckoned with. .
The Price of Victory.
From 1948 to the present year, 2002, Ferrari has recorded a record number of 149 wins and are awaiting their 150th from champion driver Michael Schumacher, but, sadly, Ferrari's success has been shrouded in tragedy. In Ferrari's 54 years in formula one the team has experienced the deaths of drivers, fans and even of Enzo Ferrari himself.
Ferrari's curse began in 1955 when ex-Ferrari champion Alberto Ascari died while driving his sports car in Monza. Ascari signed on with Lancia a year earlier but he was still not safe from Ferrari's misfortune because, oddly enough, he was killed when the tire of his Ferrari deflated ("Atlas F1", para 6). Tragedy struck closer to home for Enzo in 1958 when his beloved son Dino Ferrari died from complications in his battle with muscular dystrophy, this was something that Enzo would never recover from. As a tribute to Dino, Enzo named a number of road cars and a Grand Prix car after his son, but the team's pain was far from over. Shortly after the death of Dino two top Italian drivers, Eugenio Castellotti and Luigi Musso, die in separate accidents at the wheel of Ferrari cars followed by the death of Peter Collins not even a month later at the German Grand Prix. That year, teammate and friend of Peter Collins, Mike Hawthorn goes on to win the championship for Ferrari and retires from motor racing, but three months later he too was killed in a car crash (Nicholson and Hamilton, 1996).
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