Mauro Forghieri, who died last week at the age of 87, is widely regarded as one of the key players in Scuderia Ferrari's history. adamcooperF1 pays tribute to the influential designer and engineer, who was adept at working on chassis and engines 📝
Mauro Forghieri's stint with Ferrari as technical director and both chassis and engine designer lasted from 1959 to 1987, and he is credited by the team with an involvement in 54 grand prix wins and nine world championships.
Working initially under the volatile technical chief Carlo Chiti, Forghieri was involved with the development of the 1.5-litre Formula 1 V6 engine. He was thus part of the team’s traumatic 1961 season with the Sharknose 156 in which Phil Hill’s world title was overshadowed by the death of Wolfgang von Trips at Monza.
Forghieri exchanges notes with Surtees, pictured here in the Ferrari 156. He took its successor, the 158, to the 1964 world title“Forghieri was energetic and passionate about everything he did. He was sanguine and I recall that in many of those interminable meetings at the Gestione Sportiva, that started in the evening and went on into the night, I mediated between him and my father.
The team slipped back to fourth in 1965, the last year of the 1.5-litre formula, failing to win a race. Ferrari also faced intense competition from Ford in sportscar racing, and logged its sixth consecutive Le Mans win - and its last to date - that year with the 250 LM. Forghieri worked on engines and chassis for the 1969 Ferrari 312, driven here by Chris Amon at MonacoThe agile 312B chassis that it was mated to in 1970 proved to be very competitive in the hands of Ickx and Clay Regazzoni, with the Belgian winning three races and finishing a close second to the late Jochen Rindt in the title battle.
“The fact that I was able to test regularly at Fiorano made genuine progress possible,” Lauda wrote later. “And meant that Forghieri could be encouraged to experiment and eliminate shortcomings.” The brand new 312T3 was competitive in 1978 and won five championship races in the hands of Carlos Reutemann and Gilles Villeneuve, but it was quickly surpassed by the Lotus 79. Forghieri was obliged to design a ground-effects car for 1979, but the wide flat-12 engine didn’t lend itself to the concept.
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