Ferrari and Maserati racers on show The duel has its roots in 1926, when the Alfa Romeo racing team was managed by Enzo Ferrari, while Maserati had been founded just a few years earlier in Bologna. By 1938 Adolfo Orsi had taken over Maserati and decided to transfer it to Modena, where Enzo had been born and would later establish his factory in nearby Maranello. The Ferrari 340MM racer, of which only four examples were made, two with bodywork by Touring and two by Vignale, featured a V12 designed by Aurelio Lampredi. One of the Vignale cars had a successful debut at the 1953 Mille Miglia, driven by Giannino Marzotto and Marco Crosara. Maserati's Tipo 63 was designed by Giulio Alfieri with a tubular latticework chassis, hence its Birdcage nickname. It was campaigned far and wide but results in world championship events did not live up to expectations, although the car was successfully in the United States. The Ferrari 500 TRC, of which 19 were produced in 1957, was an updated version of the 500TR to meet new World Championship Sport Prototypes regulations. In those years Maserati dominated many races and Ferrari fought back with a Vittorio Jano-designed engine in a tubular chassis with open two-seat bodywork by Scaglietti. Gaetano Starrabba and Franco Cortese drove it in the Targa Florio in 1958 with a victory in the up to 2,000cc class and seventh place overall. The TRC had a top speed of top speed in excess of 150mph. The two-seater Maserati A6 GCS/53 was produced from 1953 to 1955 and made its debut in the 1953 Mille Miglia. Almost all of the 50 spiders produced had Medardo Fantuzzi bodywork; three were by Vignale, Frua and Scaglietti while Pininfarina designed the bodywork for four coupés, which still exist. The A6GCS/53 was extremely successful in domestic and international races. Full details at www.museocasaenzoferrari.it