[7] Born to Enzo Ferrari and his wife Laura Dominica Garello, on 19 January 1932,[8] Alfredo was named after his paternal grandfather and uncle.

He kept his promise, and retired from driving in 1932, concentrating on racing team management with the newly-formed Scuderia Ferrari.

Two years later in 1957, to honour his son, Enzo named the Dino series of racing sports cars using this V6 engine after him.

I had convinced myself that [Dino] was like one of my cars, and so I made a table of the calorific values of the various food he had to eat - types of food that would not harm his kidneys - and I kept an up-to-date daily record of his albumins, of the specific gravity of his urine, the level of urea in his blood, of his diuresis, etc., so I would have an indication of the process of the disease.

His mother, Laura Dominica Garello, never got over the loss of her only son, and her behaviour became increasingly erratic and unstable.

The marque came into existence in late 1956, with a front-engined Formula Two racer powered by a brand new Ferrari Dino V6 engine.

The name "Dino" was also used for some models with engines smaller than 12 cylinders, it was an attempt by the company to offer a relatively low-cost sports car.

The prize money was later increased to 1 million lira, in addition to a small bronze statuette of the Ferrari emblem, the Prancing Horse.