The Formula: How Rogues, Geniuses, and Speed Freaks Reengineered F1 into the World's Fastest-Growing Sport—A High-Octane History of Formula 1's Rise in ... Racing Culture, and Engineering Marvels

by Joshua Robinson

Enzo may have built a shining symbol of Italy, but none of it was worthwhile if it was all to keep killing Italian boys—never mind the foreigners and spectators. How could Ferrari continue to justify it? By this point, the Vatican viewed auto racing as downright immoral. The Holy See’s own daily newspaper, the Osservatore Romano, compared Enzo to a Roman god with a taste for flesh. “An industrial Saturn,” it called him, “who continues to devour his own sons.”