The film will arrive in theaters as an event release from September 7 through 9, distributed by Adler Entertainment, and is titled Ferrari 250 GTO – The Mauro Forghieri Car That Saved Maranello, directed by Steve Hoover. The documentary traces the turning point that propelled Ferrari’s revolution through the 1960s and 1970s. We are pleased to present an exclusive clip from the film that centers on archival footage of a 1975 triumph, featuring a driver like Niki Lauda, piloting one of the legendary machines designed by Forghieri, an engineer strongly championed by Enzo Ferrari.
Ferrari 250 GTO – The car of Mauro Forghieri that saved Maranello, the story of a comeback
On October 30, 1961, Enzo Ferrari dismissed the entire engineering and racing department of Ferrari, placing the burden on a visionary engineer, Mauro Forghieri, who at the time was only 26 years old (having graduated just in 1959), tasked with reconciling his ideas with the Commendatore’s notorious brilliant stubbornness. The documentary Ferrari 250 GTO – The car of Mauro Forghieri that saved Maranello is devoted to the Ferrari 250 GTO, produced from 1962 to 1964, which clinched first place at the Daytona 3 Hours with Pedro Rodriguez in 1963, but also the Tour de France in the same period and other celebrated races. The film goes further, tracing the engineer’s entire journey at Ferrari (technical director of the Scuderia during the periods 1962-1971 and 1973-1987). In the sequence we showed you, the car belonged to the 312 series, brought to glory under the driving of Niki Lauda and Jody Scheckter.
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