History of the Ferrari Prancing Horse Logo & Enzo Ferrari

bluezink · Post time 15-10-2011 09:41 PM

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SCUDERIA Ferrari (Ferrari) adalah nama umum untuk Gestione Sportiva, bahagian syarikat kereta Ferrari yang terbabit dengan perlumbaan.

Walaupun, Scuderia dan Ferrari Corse Clienti masih menguruskan aktiviti berlumba, pelanggan Ferrari dan pasukan persendirian, bahagian perlumbaan Ferrari menumpukan sepenuh perhatian dan peruntukannya untuk pasukan Formula Satunya (F1) Scuderia Ferrari.

Scuderia adalah perkataan Itali untuk "Kandang", dan Ferrari adalah nama pengasasnya.

Scuderia Ferrari diasaskan 1929, dan berlumba untuk Alfa romeo sehingga 1939. Ferrari pertama kali bertanding dalam F1 pada 1948 (dengan kereta Tipo 125 F1),Pada 1933 Alfa Romeo mengalami kesukaran ekonomi dan menarik balik pasukannya daripada perlumbaan. Kemudian, Scuderia Ferrari menjadi pemangku pasukan lumba Alfa Romeo, apabila kilang itu melepaskan ia pada Scuderia.

Enzo Ferrari Muda(kiri), Tua(kanan)

Kuda berjingkat (prancing stallion)adalah simbol di pesawat pejuang juruterbang handalan Itali semasa Perang Dunia 1, Francesco Baracca, dan menjadi logo Ferrari apabila diminta ibu bapa Baracca , kawan baik Enzo Ferrari, untuk menyambung tradisi kesukanan dan keberanian beliau

The famous symbol of the Ferrari race team is a 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, 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.


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 design bureau of Porsche, both being main competitors of Alfa and Ferrari in the 1930s. The city's name derives from Stutengarten, an ancient form of the German word Gest  üt, which translates into English as stud farm and into Italian as scuderia. Porsche also includes the Stuttgart sign in its corporate logo, centred in the emblem of the state of Württemberg. Stuttgart's Rössle has both rear legs firmly planted on the soil, like Baracca's horse, but unlike Ferrari's cavallino.

                        Fabio Taglioni used the cavallino rampante on his Ducati motorbikes, as Taglioni was born at Lugo di Romagna like Baracca, and his father too was a military pilot during WWI (although not part of Baracca's squadron, as is sometimes mistakenly reported). As Ferrari's fame grew, Ducati abandoned the horse- perhaps the result of a private agreement between the two companies.
Enzo Ferrari, second in the 1921 Circuito di Mugello with his 20/30 ES

The cavallino rampante is now a trademark 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 does Iron Horse Bicycles. Many pay homage to the Ferrari logo, e.g. the Jamiroquai album Travelling Without Moving.

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