Sex, syphilis and speed: Wild true story of sports car king Enzo Ferrari as Adam Driver plays him
nypost.complayed by Adam Driver in the new Michael Mann movie “Ferrari,” which is released on Christmas Day, was anything but. “He would fart and burp and cuss and do what he wanted… He taught himself to calm his baser instincts,” Stacy Bradley, editor and contributing writer to “Enzo Ferrari: The Man and the Machine,” by her late father Brock Yates, on which the hotly anticipated movie is based, told The Post.
Bad behavior included “sleeping with hundreds of women” and not minding when his best drivers died in the line of high-speed duty.Never mind that he was married to Laura, and had a longterm mistress, Lina Lardi — played by Shailene Woodley — and a lovechild. “Lina Lardi had pride of place,” continued Bradley. “Laura held the place of power.
But Ferrari slept with everyone.”And he shunned propriety. During the 1958 French Grand Prix, the dashing Ferrari driver Luigi Musso crashed to death while mishandling a turn.
He left behind a race-loving fiancée Fiamma Breschi, a stunning Italian actress.Soon after, Fiamma herself told The Guardian in 2004, “[Enzo] started to desire me… He told me that he couldn’t imagine his life without me.” She told Think Design magazine in 2012: “He could never stop apologizing about Musso and would send me letters everyday written with his signature in violet ink professing his undying love.”The pursuit worked.
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