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60 free Enzo Ferrari trivia questions with answers — sports quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
This Enzo Ferrari trivia quiz covers the driver from Modena who was turned down by Fiat and went on to build the most famous name in motor racing. It starts with the man: the flu that took his father and brother, the CMN test-driving job, the hillclimb debut, the Alfa Romeo years, the first Grand Prix win at Ravenna and the meeting with the Baracca family that gave him the prancing horse. Then it follows the company: Scuderia Ferrari in 1929, the split with Alfa, the two 815s for the Mille Miglia, the bombed factory, the move to Maranello and the V12 125 S of 1947. The second half covers the triumphs and the wounds: Ascari's first title, six straight Le Mans wins, Dino's death, the 1957 Mille Miglia crash and the manslaughter charge, the Great Walkout, the aborted Ford sale that spawned the GT40, Fiat's 50%, Lauda and Villeneuve, Piero and Lina Lardi, the F40, the nicknames, the films with Adam Driver and Remo Girone, and the museum on his birthplace. About a third of the questions suit any F1 fan; the rest are for the tifosi. Our Formula One and Ferrari cars quizzes cover the rest of the story. Every answer was checked against Wikipedia's articles on Enzo Ferrari, Ferrari, Scuderia Ferrari and related people and cars, and each explanation adds one more detail.
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Q 01In which Italian city was Enzo Ferrari born in 1898?
Modena
His birth certificate says 20 February, though the family said 18 February.
Q 02What race did the 10-year-old Enzo watch in 1908 that inspired him to become a driver?
The Circuito di Bologna
Felice Nazzaro won it; Enzo had also dreamed of being an operetta tenor or a sports journalist.
Q 03What killed Enzo's father and older brother in 1916?
A flu outbreak
Enzo himself nearly died in the 1918 pandemic and was discharged from the army.
Q 04Which carmaker turned Enzo down when he volunteered his services after World War I?
Fiat
He settled for a test-driver's job at CMN in Milan, which rebuilt truck bodies into small cars.
Q 05In what kind of event did Enzo make his racing debut in 1919?
A hillclimb
He finished fourth in class in the Parma-Poggio di Berceto hillclimb driving a CMN 15/20.
Q 06Which manufacturer's racing department did Enzo join as a driver in 1920?
Alfa Romeo
He stayed with the company for nearly two decades, eventually running its racing as Scuderia Ferrari.
Q 07Where did Enzo win his first Grand Prix, in 1923?
Ravenna
It was on the Savio Circuit; 1924 was his best season with three wins.
Q 08The prancing horse emblem was originally painted on the plane of which Italian World War I fighter ace?
Francesco Baracca
Baracca's mother suggested Enzo adopt it as a good luck charm after they met at the 1923 Savio race.
Q 09Why is Ferrari's prancing horse set against a canary-coloured shield?
It is the colour of Modena
The team also added the Italian tricolour and changed the horse's legs and tail.
Q 10What is anatomically wrong with Ferrari's version of the prancing horse?
Its tail points up
A horse on its hind legs cannot raise its tail; Baracca's original had a downturned tail.
Q 11Which German city's coat of arms, also on Porsche's badge, may be linked to the prancing horse?
Stuttgart
One version says Baracca painted the horse as a kill mark after shooting down a pilot from that city.
Q 12In which year did Enzo found Scuderia Ferrari?
1929
It began as a racing division for Alfa Romeo, running cars like the P3 for stars such as Tazio Nuvolari.
Q 13What event in 1932 prompted Enzo to retire from driving?
The birth of his son Dino
He instead built a team of superstar drivers including Giuseppe Campari and Nuvolari.
Q 21Ferrari's first major international win came at Le Mans in 1949 in which car?
The 166 MM
Luigi Chinetti shared the drive with Baron Selsdon.
Q 22How many Formula One drivers' championships did Ferrari win in Enzo's lifetime?
Nine
There were also eight constructors' titles before his death in 1988.
Q 23Who won Ferrari's first Formula One world championship, in 1952?
Alberto Ascari
He repeated the feat in 1953.
Q 24Scuderia Ferrari is the only team to have competed in every Formula One season since which year?
Q 14What did Enzo call the company he founded after leaving Alfa in 1939?
Auto Avio Costruzioni
A contract clause barred him from racing or designing cars under his own name for four years.
Q 15The first car Enzo built, the 815 of 1940, was made for which race?
The Mille Miglia
Only two were made, for Lotario Rangoni and Alberto Ascari; the name came from its 8 cylinders and 1.5 litres.
Q 16What does the '815' in the name of Enzo's first car, the 815 of 1940, stand for?
Eight cylinders and 1.5 litres
The engine borrowed heavily from a Fiat 508 Balilla.
Q 17Why did Ferrari move its factory to Maranello?
The Modena works were bombed by the Allies
Maranello has been Ferrari's home ever since.
Q 18Which was the first car to carry the Ferrari name, in 1947?
The 125 S
It debuted at Piacenza on 11 May 1947 and won two weeks later at the Rome Grand Prix.
Q 19What kind of engine did the Ferrari 125 S have, setting a pattern for decades?
A V12
The 1.5-litre Colombo V12 was designed and built by Ferrari itself.
Q 20Who drove the 125 S to Ferrari's first victory, at the Rome Grand Prix on the Caracalla circuit?
Franco Cortese
The car won six of its fourteen races in 1947.
1950
It is the sport's oldest surviving and most successful team.
Q 25How many Le Mans wins in a row did Ferrari take from 1960 to 1965?
Six
The streak ended when Ford's GT40s swept the podium in 1966.
Q 26What killed Enzo's son Dino in 1956, aged 24?
Muscular dystrophy
Dino, an engineer, had been groomed as heir and helped develop the V6 engine that later bore his name.
Q 27Which Ferrari driver's crash in Italy's 1957 1,000-mile road race killed him, his co-driver and nine spectators?
Alfonso de Portago
A tyre blew at 250 km/h near Guidizzolo; Enzo was charged with manslaughter and only cleared in 1961.
Q 28What was Enzo charged with after the 1957 Guidizzolo disaster?
Manslaughter
The tyre maker Englebert faced the same charge; the case was dismissed in 1961.
Q 29What was the 'Great Walkout' of 1961-62 at Ferrari?
Key managers and engineers quit to found rival ATS
Sales manager Girolamo Gardini, engineer Carlo Chiti and Giotto Bizzarrini were among those who left.
Q 30For how much did Enzo offer to sell Ferrari to Ford in 1963 before pulling out?
$18 million
He withdrew when he realised Ford would not give him full control of the racing department.