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Enzo Ferrari founded Scuderia Ferrari in 1929 as a racing team to service gentleman drivers and amateurs. Originally supported by Alfa Romeo, the team became Alfa Romeo's unofficial racing representatives and won many races in the 1930s. In 1937, Scuderia Ferrari was absorbed by Alfa Romeo but Enzo Ferrari left in 1939 to found his own company, Auto Avio Costruzioni, due to disagreements. During World War 2, the company produced engines and tools for the Italian military which provided capital, and the factory was moved to Maranello in 1943.

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Enzo Ferrari founded Scuderia Ferrari in 1929 as a racing team to service gentleman drivers and amateurs. Originally supported by Alfa Romeo, the team became Alfa Romeo's unofficial racing representatives and won many races in the 1930s. In 1937, Scuderia Ferrari was absorbed by Alfa Romeo but Enzo Ferrari left in 1939 to found his own company, Auto Avio Costruzioni, due to disagreements. During World War 2, the company produced engines and tools for the Italian military which provided capital, and the factory was moved to Maranello in 1943.

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Early history

Three Scuderia Ferrari cars in 1934, all Alfa


Romeo P3s. Drivers, left to right: Achille Varzi, Louis Chiron, and Carlo Felice Trossi.

Enzo Ferrari, formerly a salesman and racing driver for Alfa Romeo, founded Scuderia Ferrari, a
racing team, in 1929. Originally intended to service gentleman drivers and other amateur racers,
Alfa Romeo's withdrawal from racing in 1933, combined with Enzo's connections within the
company, turned Scuderia Ferrari into its unofficial representative on the track.[9] Alfa Romeo
supplied racing cars to Ferrari, who eventually amassed some of the best drivers of the 1930s and
won many races before the team's liquidation in 1937.[10][9]: 43

Late in 1937, Scuderia Ferrari was liquidated and absorbed into Alfa Romeo,[9] but Enzo's
disagreements with upper management caused him to leave in 1939. He used his settlement to
found his own company, where he intended to produce his own cars. He called the company
"Auto Avio Costruzioni", and headquartered it in the facilities of the old Scuderia Ferrari; [1] due
to a noncompete agreement with Alfa Romeo, the company could not use the Ferrari name for
another four years. The company produced a single car, the Auto Avio Costruzioni 815, which
participated in only one race before the outbreak of World War II. During the war, Enzo's
company produced aircraft engines and machine tools for the Italian military; the contracts for
these goods were lucrative, and provided the new company with a great deal of capital. In 1943,
under threat of Allied bombing raids, the company's factory was moved to Maranello, where it
remains to this day

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