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.