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Ferrari's landmark F1 cars: The record-breaking 500

The Ferrari 500 carried Alberto Ascari to the marque's first Formula 1 drivers' title in 1952, although it was actually a Formula 2 car. This makes it a key car in Ferrari's journey to becoming the most successful constructor in F1 world championship history, taking the first of the team's combined total of 31 drivers' and constructors' titles. Enzo Ferrari was conflicted when F1 stuttered and almost died in 1952, because he felt a lingering tug of affection for the departed Alfa Romeo and its potent supercharged F1 cars, whose design he had championed while working for Alfa in the 1930s. But he got over it well enough, for motor racing's loss would be his gain: in the absence of enough...
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