The engineer behind Ferrari’s F1 legend: How Mauro Forghieri became Enzo’s right-hand man
Doug Nye hears how a young Mauro Forghieri was catapulted from the workshop shadows to become the key figure behind Ferrari’s motor racing operations during the 1960s
Forghieri in his pomp
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Taken from Motor Sport, August 2019
Mauro Forghieri – for 27 years the chief engineer of Ferrari’s racing operation – was on fine form. Ten days earlier, this tall, rangy man of enormous accomplishment had celebrated his birthday. Now 84 – but going on 60, and bright as a firework – he had been recalling bygone events at his home in Magreta, one of the sprawling village communities dotted around the Italian city of Modena.
My Genoese friend Franco Lombardi – himself a great Ferrari and Maserati authority – was with us, and we had just driven to the neighbouring village of Casinalbo for lunch.