Ferrari: Race to Immortality Page #3
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and everything was sweetness and light.
It was a sparkling honeymoon
He won in Formula One.
He won in other categories.
Ferrari immediately
recognized his versatility
and overnight, almost,
not only in Italy at Ferrari,
but also on the world racing stage.
Victory goes
to Peter Collins and Mike Hawthorn,
with Moss second and Fangio third.
So Peter Collins
wins his first Grand Prix for Ferrari.
Peter Collins joins
that exclusive band of British drivers
to have won a Grande Epreuve.
There's no doubt that Peter Collins
was one of the drivers
that Enzo Ferrari loved.
He felt a real warmth to him,
which he didn't feel
towards all his drivers by any means.
Peter Collins became very friendly
and very close with Dino,
Mr Ferrari's sadly terminally ill son.
My husband did a wonderful job,
in a way,
of helping to communicate
between the dying son and Enzo.
Ferrari was very moved by that,
such concern for his son.
And Dino's death, of course, was a...
It was a shattering blow
to him and to his wife
and I think
that brought him closer to Collins.
By the end of the '56 season,
Collins has won the Belgian Grand Prix,
he's won the French Grand Prix.
He's in with a shout
of becoming the first British driver
ever to win
the FIA Drivers' World Championship.
There were five Lancia Ferraris
in the race.
There was Fangio, Portago and Collins,
but also Castellotti and Musso
had a fierce, fierce rivalry.
Actually, my guess, as soon
as the Italian Grand Prix started,
Castellotti and also Luigi Musso,
who went for it, you know,
as if the race was starting
on the last lap.
Fangio's car broke down
and in those days you could share a car
with another driver
and get half the points.
Musso came in and it was
suggested to him he should get out
and give the car to Fangio, and Musso
had no interest in that at all.
That was when Collins, of course,
Collins is poised
to win the World Championship.
He comes into the pits
for his last pit stop,
beckoned to Fangio and said,
"You take my car
and I'll give up my chance
for you to win
yet another World Championship."
I can't actually think
of another driver,
apart from Peter, to do that,
because all Peter had to do
was keep going
and he was the man who would take it.
He respected the superiority
of Fangio as a driver
and I think he felt it would be
unfair of him not to provide the car.
It was a very chivalrous
and respectful gesture,
which Enzo Ferrari appreciated a lot.
Talking to the press afterwards,
Peter apparently said,
"I'm young. I'll get another chance."
I was in a play
at Coconut Grove Playhouse in Florida
and Peter was on his way from Argentina
back to England.
The West Indies, Cuba,
all of Latin America,
are just beyond the horizon
when you make Miami your headquarters.
Stirling Moss actually
told Peter that I was in Florida
and so if he was going through there,
why not say hello?
So, he gave me a ring
and Monday night after the play
we got together, and that was it.
Wednesday he asked me to marry him.
Friday my father came down from New York
to stop this whole nonsense.
He was with the United Nations,
He was a little unhappy,
thinking that his daughter
was going to marry a racing driver
that she didn't even know.
It worked out very beautifully.
When does a star begin to decline?
The day they put personal interests
before the sport itself.
Enzo Ferrari didn't like his drivers
getting tied down
because he didn't like the idea
that they had something else to live for
besides driving his racing cars,
that that would
take the edge off their speed.
more than the drivers
because the cars were loyal to him
and the drivers very often weren't.
that his team number one
would be the driver
who performed best last Sunday,
which tended to keep them on their toes.
By setting them to some extent
in competition with each other,
by very often having five drivers
for four cars,
it would ensure that they were
performing at their maximum
the whole time for him.
There would have been
quite a lot of culture shock
for Mike Hawthorn and Peter Collins
going into the Scuderia Ferrari
where they would have been surrounded
by very competitive playboy drivers.
I had dinner with Ferrari
and we were talking about racing,
as we usually do,
and all of a sudden he said,
"But you know the drivers
will always go to the factory
which produces the fastest car."
And I was just about to protest
my loyalty to Ferrari when I realized
that I would go somewhere else
if they produced a faster car.
There is no loyalty to a factory.
There was a colored,
embittered relationship
between Fangio and Mr Ferrari,
and so when Fangio left Ferrari
at the end of that
World Championship-winning season,
to go to the rival Maserati team,
the only person surprised
was Mr Ferrari.
When Mike Hawthorn rejoined
the Ferrari team at the start of 1957,
they had Collins, Musso,
the Spanish Marquis Fon de Portago
and they had Castellotti.
It was an incredibly strong team.
about Castellotti
was how neat and precise he was
in his everyday life,
and that's always a good sign, I think,
to how you are in a racing car.
And you look at the way
he used to pack his racing suitcase
with all his race kit, everything was
immaculate and perfectly organized,
and I think that showed
another side to Castellotti.
He wasn't just a crazy Italian.
This guy was good.
Castellotti started racing,
effectively, with a Ferrari sports car
He grew up
as a gilded child, really.
that has a lot of money,
and decided he was going to do what most
wealthy Italians wish they could do
and that's be a real racing driver,
and he's pretty good,
but he's not all that good.
You said drivers
can be divided into two categories:
the pros and the ambitious,
i.e. the amateurs.
No doubt.
You said it's not true
that Italians race slower
than foreigners.
But the winners
Obviously Italians lack
the technical resources
available to foreigners.
Everybody in Italy was mad about racing.
Even if there was no television,
but there was a radio,
they were following what was happening.
driving in Italy
and obviously having to prove yourself
constantly against drivers
like Collins, Hawthorn and Moss
was very, very difficult.
In March 1957, Castellotti was
called to do some testing for Ferrari
at the Modena test track.
I mean, it sounds ludicrous, in a way,
that Modena was the test track
that both Ferrari and Maserati used
and why it should have been
so desperately important
who actually held the, you know, the
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