Enzo Ferrari (The Maker) was born on February 18 1898 in a town called Modena. After having faught in World War I, in 1918, he became a test driver in Turin.
He made his racing debut in 1919 in the Parma-Berceto race and he entered the Targa Florio that year too. In 1920 he started racing for Alfa Romeo where he worked for/with for nearly 20 years. His career there took him from test driver to race car driver to sales assistant and finally to Director of the Alfa racing division until 1939