Passion - Passione - Enzo Ferrari and Rudi Caracciola

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Passion - Passione - Enzo Ferrari and Rudi Caracciola

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Enzo Ferrari (1920) and Rudi Caracciola (1933) - Passion at the wheel

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Enzo Ferrari with the 125 S in the factory courtyard (1947)

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Enzo Ferrari with the drivers Scarfiotti, Parkes, Surtees and Vaccarella at the Modena airfield during a training session (1964)

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Leopold of Belgium with Princess Liliana de Rethy and Enzo Ferrari (1957)

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Testing the 246 F1 on the Modena circuit (1958)

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Enzo Ferrari and Mike Hawthorn with the Scuderia Ferrari in Monza 1953

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Rudolf Caracciola at the Semmmering race on 14.9.1930

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Rudolf Caracciola at the Monaco GP on April 22, 1935 - with his dog Moritz during the training break

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Rudolf Caracciola and Hermann Lang on the occasion of the German GP at the Nürburgring on July 25, 1937

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Mercedes-Benz SSKL (1931) - Rudolf Caracciola at the Avus race in Berlin on 2.8.1931

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Alfa Romeo 20-30 ES (1922) - Enzo Ferrari in his Alfa at the 1922 Targa Florio

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Alfa Romeo P3 (1932) - Rudi Caracciola at the Gaisbergrennen 1932

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Alfa Romeo P3 (1932) - Rudi Caracciola in the Alfa at the Klausenrennen 1932

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Mercedes-Benz SSK (1931) - Rudolf Caracciola and Wilhelm Sebastian cross the Appenine at the Mille Miglia 1931

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Mercedes Grand Prix 4.5 liter (1914) - Rudolf Caracciola with the 4.5 liter and supercharger at the international Semmering race in 1928

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Mercedes-Benz SSK (1930) - Rudolf Caracciola wins the Irish Grand Prix on July 19, 1930

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Mercedes-Benz W25 (1934) - Rudi Caracciola on a Mercedes Benz W 25 was the Klausenrennen winner in 1934 with starting number 65 on the drive up the Klausen Pass

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Mercedes-Benz W125 (1937) - Swiss Grand Prix in Bremgarten on August 22, 1937 - the later winner Rudolf Caracciola

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Mercedes-Benz W154 (1938) - Rudolf Caracciola, Rudolf Uhlenhaut and Hermann Lang on the Mercedes-Benz W154 before the start of the Swiss GP in Bremgarten/Bern on August 21, 1938

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Ferrari 375 Plus (1954) - Jack McAfee's 4.9-liter 375 Plus after an accident at the 1954 Carrera Panamericana

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Mercedes-Benz 300 SL (1952) - Rudi Caracciola's crashed car from the 1952 Bern GP

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Mercedes-Benz 300SL (W194) (1952) - Rudolf Caracciola at the GP Bern on May 17/18, 1952

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Mercedes-Benz SSK (1929) - Rudi Caracciola, 1929 winner of the Tourist Trophy

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Mercedes-Benz W25 (1936) - Record drives on November 11, 1936 with Rudolf Caracciola's V12 record-breaking car

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Mercedes-Benz S (1928) - Flüela Pass - Passione Caracciola 2017

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Ferrari 275 GTB/4 (1966) - Julius Baer Rally - Passione Engadina 2017

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Summary

They may have hardly ever met, the German racing driver Rudolf Caracciola and the Italian racing car builder Enzo Ferrari, but their lives and lifestyles show more parallels than you might think. This article summarizes the similarities between the two biographies and shows the famous men in many pictures.

This article contains the following chapters

Early enthusiasm
Successes and setbacks
Alfa Romeo
Great suffering
The will to win
The departure
The passion lives on!

Estimated reading time: 5min

Preview (beginning of the article)

The birth dates of Enzo Ferrari (February 18, 1898) and Rudolf Caracciola (June 30, 1901) are only around three years apart, but their birthplaces (Modena (Italy), Remagen (Germany)) are separated by around 900 km. While Rudolf grew up in affluent circumstances, Enzo had to be somewhat more modest as the son of a craftsman. Caracciola was gripped by car fever at an early age, obtaining his driver's license at the age of 15 and winning his first motorcycle race at 21. Little Enzo Ferrari began to take an interest in motor racing when his father Alfredo took him to a car race as a boy, where he was able to watch the heroes of the day, such as Felice Nazzaro and Vincenzo Lancia, at the wheel of brutal racing cars. From then on, it was clear to him that racing would be his life.

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