The famous symbol of the Ferrari race team is the
Cavallino Rampante ("prancing horse") black prancing
stallion on a yellow shield, usually with the letters
S F (for
Scuderia Ferrari), with three stripes of green, white and red (the Italian national colors) at the top. The road cars have a rectangular badge on the hood (see picture above), and, optionally, the shield-shaped race logo on the sides of both front wings, close to the door.
On June 17, 1923, Enzo Ferrari won a race at the
Savio track in
Ravenna where he met the Countess Paolina, mother of Count
Francesco Baracca, an ace of the
Italian air force and national hero of
World War I, who used to paint a horse on the side of his planes. The Countess asked Enzo to use this horse on his cars, suggesting that it would bring him good luck. The original "prancing horse" on Baracca's
airplane was painted in red on a white cloud-like shape, but Ferrari chose to have the horse in black (as it had been painted as a sign of grief on Baracca's squadron planes after the pilot was killed in action) and he added a
canary yellow background as this is the color of the city of Modena, his birthplace. The Ferrari horse was, from the very beginning, markedly different from the Baracca horse in most details, the most noticeable being the tail that in the original Baracca version was pointing downward.
Ferrari has used the
cavallino rampante on official company stationery since 1929. Since the
Spa 24 Hours of July 9, 1932, the
cavallino rampante has been used on Alfa Romeos raced by Scuderia Ferrari.
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Reply With QuoteOriginally Posted by inkworm
Is the horse a variation of this one?
