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From the beginning of organised motor sport events, in the early 1900s, until the late 1960s, before commercial sponsorship liveries came into common use, vehicles competing in Formula One, sports car racing, touring car racing and other international auto racing competitions customarily painted their cars in standardised racing colours that indicated the nation of origin of the car or driver.
Rosso corsa (lit."racing red" in Italian) is the red international motor racing colour of cars entered by teams from Italy. [2]Since the 1920s Italian race cars of Alfa Romeo, Maserati, Lancia, and later Ferrari and Abarth have been painted in rosso corsa ("racing red").
Although rosso corsa is the colour most associated with Ferrari, [105] [108] it has not always been the colour of choice. Ferraris raced by privateers have run in a rainbow of colours, and one 250 GT SWB, used as a test mule for the 250 GTO, was a rare non-red factory-backed car: it raced in blue.
Below is a list of RAL Classic colours [1] from the RAL colour standard. Alongside every colour, the corresponding values are given for: hexadecimal triplet for the sRGB colour space, approximating the given RAL colour; sRGB value; Grey value calculated from (0.2126 × red) + (0.7152 × green) + (0.0722 × blue) [12] CIE L*a*b* values
The Ferrari F40 (Type F120) is a mid-engine, rear-wheel drive sports car [12] engineered by Nicola Materazzi with styling by Pininfarina. It was built from 1987 until 1992, with the LM and GTE race car versions continuing production until 1994 and 1996 respectively. [ 15 ]
Dino 246 GT 308 GTB (1984) Ferrari 328 GTB (1989) 360 Spider 488 GTB (2015) The Dino was the first mid-engined road car designed and produced by Ferrari. This layout would go on to be used in most Ferraris of the 1980s and 1990s. V6 and V8 Ferrari models make up well over half of the marque's total production. 1967–1974 Dino. 1967–1969 Dino ...
The Ferrari P540 Superfast Aperta is a one-off convertible sports car based on the Ferrari 599 GTB Fiorano. [34] This car represents the second car in Ferrari's Special Project program. Edward Walson commissioned the car in 2008, asking Ferrari to build a modern interpretation of the gold covered Carrozzeria Fantuzzi -bodied Ferrari 330 LMB ...
Steinwinter , a specialty carmaker from Germany, used a prancing horse logo similar to Ferrari's. Like Porsche, the logo is derived from Stuttgart's coat of arms. [8] A "prancing moose" emblem imitating the Ferrari logo is popular among Volvo enthusiasts. The emblem was created by Dave Barton in 2005 and copyrighted in 2007.