Commendatore Mauro Forghieri (obituary)

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Commendatore Mauro Forghieri (obituary)

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Created on November 11, 2022

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Mauro Forghieri at the 1000 km race in Monza with John Surtees and Peter Schetty

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The driveway to Mauro Forghieri's country estate

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Mauro Forghieri signs his book on the trunk of a Maserati Quattroporte

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Mauro Forghieri calmly awaits the coming events

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Mauro Forghieri helps Jacky Ickx into the cockpit of the new Ferrari 312 sports prototype at the 1972 Kyalami tests

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Mauro Forghieri on the Ferrari 126 C2 turbo at Zolder 1982

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Summary

Mauro Forghieri was the technical conscience of Ferrari for decades. His cars became Formula 1 world champions four times and won several sports car championships. He knew his way around everything: the chassis, the engines, the gearboxes. But he built perhaps his best engine for Lamborghini ... Mauro Forghieri died on November 2, 2022. This article looks back on his long career.

This article contains the following chapters

Renouncing space travel
Conductor of 300 employees
Missed plane
From Ferrari to Lamborghini
Retirement as Commendatore

Estimated reading time: 3min

Preview (beginning of the article)

Gravel driveway to the country estate, from whose open windows the "Brandenburg Concertos" by Johann Sebastian Bach can be heard - his favorite music. He was a virtuoso, conducting veritable symphonies from 12 cylinders, his concert halls were race tracks all over the world, his audiences were racing enthusiasts. A Ferrari racing car could be recognized from afar, the sound was incomparable and stood out from all other engines. He was the great maestro of technology: Mauro Forghieri. Forghieri's star rose in the racing firmament at the end of 1961. Enzo Ferrari had just fired his successful racing engineers Giotto Bizzarini and Carlo Chiti - the right time for Forghieri to take over. His original plans to join the US aviation industry after studying mechanical engineering were postponed forever.

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