The orphan Duck becomes a Queen

There’s a lot of talk about the Ferrari 250 GT0 and its stratospheric market values. But who knows how it was born? It was 1961, and Enzo Ferrari wanted a winning Grand Touring car to counter the growing performance of Aston Martin and Jaguar. With his histrionic style, the famous Enzo, instead of commissioning the racing department, asked one of his engineers, Giotto Bizzarrini from Livorno, to make a car with performances already superior than ever, working almost secretly in an isolated garage. Bizzarrini, starting from a Ferrari 250 Boano, by now dated, revised the chassis and shortened the wheelbase, moved the engine 20 centimetres further back, to best distribute the weights, and lowered it to reduce the frontal section.