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IMAGE: Mauro Forghieri attends the Matita d’Oro award ceremony at Museo Nazionale dell’Automobile. Photograph: Giorgio Perottino\/Getty Images <\/span><\/p>\n Mauro Forghieri, the technical director and designer who helped Ferrari win a string of Formula One titles from the 1960s through to the 1980s, has died in Italy at the age of 87.<\/p>\n “Legends last forever. It\u2019s been an honour making history together. Ferrari and the world of motorsport will never forget you,” the team said on Twitter.<\/p>\n Forghieri, then only 27 years old, was asked by founder Enzo Ferrari to take over the technical side of the team in 1961 after joining as a trainee with a university degree in mechanical engineering.<\/p>\n Britain’s John Surtees (1964), Austrian Niki Lauda (1975, 1977) and South African Jody Scheckter (1979) all won championships under his watch.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n Ferrari also won seven constructors’ world championships and 54 Grand Prixs during that period.<\/p>\n Forghieri had fallings out, moved aside by Ferrari in the late 1960s and early 1970s, but never for long.<\/p>\n His Ferrari 312T car, in various guises, won four constructors’ and three drivers’ championships with Lauda and Scheckter.<\/p>\n Lauda, who died in 2019 and was famously direct, recalled in an autobiography how the combination of Forghieri and team manager Luca di Montezemolo helped forge a winning outfit after he arrived at Maranello in 1974.<\/p>\n “Forghieri was obviously a tremendous engineer and Luca was very good at telling the Old Man (Ferrari) about what was happening,” he wrote.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n[ad_2]\n<\/p>\n News From This Website <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"