Enzo's once illegitimate son now a billionaire

I am writing a news story on Piero Ferrari but may be unaware of some details that Fchat members know. Here's what I got so far,


Ya gotta give 77-year old Piero Ferrari credit for remaining in the background when he first came to Ferrari as an engineer under the name Piero Lardi. He was the son of Enzo but his mother was Ferrari's mistress. He changed his name only after his mother died.

Bloomberg estimates "Piero Ferrari's shares have a net worth of $5.6 billion through a roughly 10% stake in the supercar maker, making him the world’s 467th-richest person, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index.
Born 22 May, 1945, he is the second son of Enzo. The first,, Dino, died in his 20's. Dino is more well known because Piero couldn't change his name until after that date. His mother Laura died 27 Feb. 78.
A real irony is that Enzo went to great lengths to keep his secret son away from Dino,. Dino, an engineer at Ferrari before Piero, engineered a V6 engine and race cars until he became a victim of Duchenne muscular dystrophy, and died on 30 June 1956, at the age of 24. Piero never met his older brother.
Actually Piero's been a billionaire since 2015 following the New York IPO of the company his father fondued six decades earlier. The stock has gone up more than 400% and also boosted the fortune of the Agnelli family who are Ferrari’s largest shareholder with a 24% stake through holding company Exor NV.

Enzo died in 1988 at age 90.

Piero Ferrari’ has been vice chairman since 1988, and also owns a stake in Italian luxury yacht builder Ferretti Group and is chairman of engineering services firm HPE COXA. In December he set up a family trust for his descendants, though he retains voting control over the shares during his lifetime.

I have seen him at events like Pebble Beach and I think, like his father, he has a hand on the pulse of his car's fans.

He seems to , unlike his father, be supportive of changing the products to coincide with public taste such as welcoming the SUV Purosangue, and hybrids and may soon vote on green-lighting a full electric bearing the crest of the prancing horse.
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