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FERRARI AND WOMEN: AN ESSENTIAL COMBINATION
The perception may be that Ferrari, the ultimate super car company and the world’s most successful motorsport team, is strictly a man’s world, but woman have played a significant role in the history of the company as owners, the inspiration for new models and behind the wheel of racing cars.
To celebrate this fact, the Galleria Ferrari, the factory’s own museum, has opened a new display, ‘La Ferrari e le Donne’ or ‘Ferrari and Women’, an impressive photographic exhibition of the many woman involved in the 60 years of Ferrari history, 60 years of exclusive street cars and passionate car races, but also of fascinating, powerful and independent women, who have bought or driven Ferraris, or who have accompanied the most famous Ferrari drivers during their adventures.
Visitors will find out about this special relationship between Ferrari and women, both regarding the past and the present, not only by female images, but also having a look at the most prestigious cars depicted in the photos: the 250 GT Spider of 1959, the 250 GT Berlinetta of 1962 and the 360 Spider of 2000. The women shown not only are the models that during the first decades of Ferrari production have rendered even more beautiful the displays of the new models, but they're also princesses, actresses, and wives of the drivers that for the first time have appreciated and witnessed the power and charm of these cars.
From the beginning of the Fifties, those privileged women could cherish the conquest of this prevailing men's world, for example Princess Liliana de Rethy, who in 1957 asked Enzo Ferrari to exclusively produce a special version of the 250 GT coupe, or Ingrid Bergman, who in 1954 ordered the Berlinetta 375 Mille Miglia presented in the Saloon of Paris as a unique version.
Special importance is being paid to the female actors: starting from Brigitte Bardot in a 250 GT spider in the 1963 film "The Contempt", Ann Stroyberg in a 250 California in a remake of the film "Les liaisons dangereuses" (1959), to Zsa Zsa Gabor, Shirley McLaine, Monica Vitti and Sharon Stone.
And, last but not least, the racing women: Piero Taruffi's wife, Isabella, welcoming her victorious at the finish of the last Mille Miglia in 1957, his daughter, Prisca, driving the same winning car, the 315 S and Pat Surtees, the wife of John Surtees, during the Monaco GP in 1966.
The Galleria Ferrari, which is open seven days a week, including national holidays, from 09.30 to 18.00, and is an essential part of any visit to Maranello, the home of Ferrari. The exhibition is included in the entrance price.
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Release Number: Ferrari_240
Date of Issue: 1 October 2018. Time of Issue: 13:08:19