All highly successful companies have always had a consortium of industry geniuses attacking them. It is always like this. And it also happened in the case of Ferrari. A film epic (who knows sooner or later they’ll make it…) which for now tells the story of the book “Rebel Angels” by Danilo Castellarin (14×22 format – 216 pages – Giorgio Nada Editore – 28 euros): the story of the most trusted Enzo Ferrari’s men who – after being kicked out – founded a rival team, ATS.
An investigation book written like a novel, to be read in one sitting. And enriched – like all investigations worthy of the name – by over 50 precious unpublished images by Franco Villani, the official ATS reporter at the time. There is no spoiler risk in saying that the ATS will soon come to a bad end – the story is known – but it is not at all known how it began and why the revolt of the men closest to Enzo Ferrari, the Rebel Angels, was so profound , precisely.
We know that after the death of Dino, on 30 June 1956, Enzo Ferrari’s eldest son, and a series of endless deaths (the following year Castellotti died in Modena and De Portago in the Mille Miglia, then in 1958, in Reims he also lost his life Luigi Musso, and in 1961 von Trips’ Ferrari massacred the crowd in Monza, with fifteen victims) the Commentator is under stress. He even ends up on trial accused of massacre for the Mille Miglia accident. A tough period, full of internal disagreements within Ferrari which ended with the dismissal of many trusted Drake managers.
So they decide to found a rival team, ATS. And this is precisely the beauty of the book: reconstructing the psychological path, the stories of passions and men behind this revolt. In short, something new in Ferrari’s infinite literary production
