25 years on, Ferrari looking for a repeat of their fabled history

The 25th anniversary of the death of Enzo Ferrari passed with no great fanfare this month, but in the middle of Formula One's summer break, it did stir memories of one of the greatest figures in the sport's history.

The creator of the most famous marque in F1 history died at his home in Modena, on August 14, 1988. He was 90.

Italy wept. Motorsport bowed respectfully and, at the Italian Grand Prix, just a few weeks later, on September 11, F1 delivered a typically eventful fairy tale to mark the occasion.

In an era dominated by Honda power and the brilliance of the embattled McLaren pairing of Frenchman Alain Prost and Brazilian Ayrton Senna, the scarlet scuderia delivered a stunning one-two triumph on home soil.

Austrian Gerhard Berger won the race ahead of his Italian teammate Michele Alboreto after a bizarre incident - in which Frenchman Jean-Louis Schlesser, standing in for chicken-pox victim Briton Nigel Mansell - inadvertently collided with the race-leading Brazilian at the first chicane with only two laps remaining.

Senna was left beached and stranded. He was forced to retire and as that realisation spread around the old Monza park, the tifosi broke into wild rapturous celebration.

The two Ferraris streaked past and sped to a glorious triumph. It was the only race of the year won by anyone other than a McLaren-Honda driver.