Car-maker teams up with Italian yachtsman Giovanni SoldiniCompany vows to use cutting-edge technologies in venture
Ferrari, the storied winner of 243 F1 grands prix and with a rich heritage of manufacturing some of the world’s finest road cars, is planning a sporting pivot that will see the famous prancing horse marque take to the waves.
The Italian car-maker said on Wednesday it plans to enter world sailing competitions and is teaming up with the ocean racing yachtsman Giovanni Soldini as team principal. An icon of motor racing with its uninterrupted presence in F1 since the start of the world championship in 1950, Ferrari won its last F1 drivers’ championship in 2007 and constructors’ title in 2008.