The meaning of the Ferrari logo
The famous symbol of the Ferrari racing team is a black prancing stallion on a yellow shield, usually with the letters SF for Scuderia Ferrari, with three stripes of green Italian national colors, white and red top The road cars have a rectangular badge on the hood, and, optionally, the logo of the shield-shaped race at the sides of the two 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 Paolina countess 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 Countess asked Enzo to use this horse on his cars, suggesting that it would bring him luck original prancing horse on Baracca's plane was painted in red on a form cloud like white, but Ferrari chose to have the horse in black as he was painted as a sign of mourning on aircraft squadron Baracca after the pilot was killed in action and added a yellow canary that is the color of Modena, his hometown Ferrari horse was, from the start, clearly different from the Baracca horse in most details, the most notable being the tail that in the original version Baracca was directed downward.
Ferrari has used the stationery on rampant cavallino the official company since 1929. Since the Spa 24 Hours of July 9, 1932, the cavallino rampant was used on Alfa Romeo Scuderia Ferrari driven.
The motif of a prancing horse is old, it can be found on ancient coins A similar black horse on a yellow shield is the coat of arms of the German city of Stuttgart, home of Mercedes-Benz and the Porsche design office, both being main competitors of Alfa and Ferrari in the 1930s the name of the Stutengarten drift city, an ancient form of the German word Gest t, which is translated into English as stud farm and into Italian scuderia Porsche also includes the Stuttgart sign in its corporate logo, centered on the emblem of the state of W rttemberg Stuttgart s R SSLE has both rear legs firmly planted on the ground as the horse of Baracca, but unlike Ferrari cavallino .
Fabio Taglioni used the cavallino rampante on his Ducati motorbikes, as Taglioni was born in Lugo di Romagna like Baracca, and his father too was a military pilot during World War II, although not part of Baracca's squadron, as is sometimes mistakenly reported that the famous Ferrari grew, Ducati abandoned the horse- perhaps the result of a private agreement between the two companies.
The rampant cavallino is now a brand of Ferrari Cavallino Magazine uses the name but not the logo However, other companies use similar logos Avanti, an Austrian company operating over 100 filling stations, uses a prancing horse logo which is nearly identical to Ferrari's, as Iron Horse Bicycles Many pay homage to the Ferrari logo, eg the Jamiroquai album Traveling Without Moving.
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