815, a war machine

The divorce between Ferrari and Alfa Romeo, although initially appearing like a defeat for Enzo, was in fact a fundamental and extremely fortuitous moment for his future career as a manufacturer. 1938 had been a disastrous year for Alfa Romeo in racing and the engineer Gobbato, General Manager of the Company which, let’s not forget, was owned by the Italian State, was not convinced by the organization that Ferrari had brought with him from Modena to Milan, using the same approach as he had always done with the Scuderia.