Mauro Forghieri

Mauro Forghieri ( born January 13, 1935 in Modena ) is a former Italian engine and race car designer.

Career

Forghieri studied at the University of Bologna engineering, doctorate and began a teaching career, but was planning to go to California to work in the aerospace industry.

Ferrari

Forghieris father, who had worked in the 1930s for Ferrari, Enzo Ferrari sat down at his son one who took the subsequent job offer in 1960. Only two years later, at the age of 26 years, was Forghieri sports director and chief designer and Eugenio Dragoni was team manager in the Ferrari racing team. In 1970, he was Technical Director. He developed the car as well as the engine, with which Ferrari four drivers 'world championship with John Surtees (1964 ), Niki Lauda (1975 and 1977 ) and Jody Scheckter (1979 ), and won seven constructors' titles.

1981 Ferrari committed the British designer Harvey Postlethwaite as support for Forghieri. However, the collaboration did not work as desired and according to various political squabbles and ausbleibendem success Forghieri 1985 was transferred to another development department while Postlethwaite alone was responsible for the Formula 1 area. Forghieri remained until 1987, then moved to Ferrari and Lamborghini Engineering.

Lamborghini

Lamborghini Engineering was established at the initiative of the Chrysler boss Lee Iacocca offshoot of Lamborghini. The aim of the new company under the chief Daniele Audetto was initially developing a Formula 1 engine. Forghieri constructed a V12 naturally aspirated engine, the used from the 1989 season in Larrousse team, but was later used by other teams such as Lotus or Equipe Ligier. Developed in 1990 Forghieri for Lamborghini Engineering a Formula 1 chassis that was with a Mexican entrepreneur eventually used for a hapless start in 1991 by a team called Team Modena. Forghieri 1991 was the technical director of the team. After the operation of the racing team had been set in late 1991, Forghieri returned to Lamborghini engineering and oversaw the customer engines that were used until 1993 in Formula 1.

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1992, has developed Forghieri for Enel a minivan with electric drive. The end of 92 he took up the post of Technical Director at Bugatti, where he remained until 1994. In the same year he teamed up with Franco Antoniazzi and Sergio Lugli in Modena, the company Oral Engineering, a company for engine design and development.

Forghieri was part of the Special Commission should clarify the circumstances of Ayrton Senna's accidental death in 1994 for the court hearing.