Ferrari fans are worried: the GP racing car will be given a different color in 2025 in the first year of the partnership with Lewis Hamilton. Since then, Tifosi have been debating – what red will the Scuderia wear?
Formula 1 star Lewis Hamilton is expected in Maranello in the future: his commitment to Ferrari marks the beginning of a new chapter in the Englishman’s incredible career, perhaps the end of his GP career.
It is currently leaking in Italy, and it makes the Tifosi very worried: In 2025, in the first year with Lewis Hamilton, Ferrari will compete with a stronger red than in previous years. Whatever that means. Since then, the social networks of Ferrari fans have been crazy, and everyone is wondering – what red will the Scuderia start?
Because red is definitely not red when it comes to Ferrari.
The best example was given to amazed fans at Mugello 2020 when the proud racing team took part in the 1000th race of the Formula 1 World Championship. In the past, Sebastian Vettel and Charles Leclerc drove in red, so dark that some fans were talking on burgundy.
It was actually the “Rosso Barchetta” color, the color from the late 1940s of many Barchetta models such as the 125 S. And Ferrari also competed in this shade of red at the Formula 1 World Championship in Monaco. Ferrari made a revision in the current 1950 season, now racing cars in a slightly lighter red.
Ferrari once again puts its fans in agony: A few days before the 2024 Monza GP, GP winners Charles Leclerc and Carlos Sainz presented online how they will be at Monza next weekend, with the “Monza Carbon Fiber Collection”.
The revised approach to Ferrari is unusual. The Italians regularly show up at special races with modified racing car colors and new drivers’ overalls.
Example Monza 2023: Ferrari returned to Le Mans in June 2023 after an absence as a factory racing team for 50 years. The Italians immediately won the endurance race for the tenth time, the first time since 1965. James Calado, Antonio Giovinazzi and Alessandro Pier Guidi won in the Ferrari 499P Hypercar.
To commemorate the occasion, the Ferrari Formula 1 racing team showed up at their home Monza in September with a specially painted GP racing car for Charles Leclerc and Carlos Sainz.
As early as 2022, many yellow styling elements could be discovered on the Monegasque and the Spaniard’s car, as a way to say thank you to their hometown of Modena after 75 years of Ferrari. Yellow, the color of Modena, can also be seen as the background on the world famous Ferrari logo.
The painting of the cars of Leclerc and Sainz at Monza 2023 was based on the power painting of the big car, on the sides, on the nose, on the engine shell. Leclerc’s starting numbers 16 and Sainz’s 55 are also yellow.
There were also special overalls for the drivers, Ferrari lettering in the old look and special helmets – yellow for Leclerc, black for Sainz.
Example Miami 2024: Ferrari turned blue. No, it’s not that the Italians skipped the Grand Prix in Florida, instead they used the appearance in the USA with a beautiful color – the old colors of Ferrari Azzurro La Plata (light blue) and Azzurro Dino (dark blue) were. has been reactivated.
This is to celebrate the arrival of new major sponsor HP and 70 years of Ferrari in the United States.
Azzurro La Plata goes back to the color that Ferrari star Alberto Ascari used to wear in the 1950s. And in Azzurro Dino, the racing suits of Clay Regazzoni and Niki Lauda were worn by Ferrari in 1974, and most of the mechanics at that time did not wear red, but blue .
How exactly the blue elements will be incorporated into the design of the Ferrari SF-24 was revealed a few days before the Miami GP. This special broadcast could only be seen in Florida, not in the other US races in Austin and Las Vegas.
A slightly different look for Ferrari in the USA is nothing new: at the end of 2023, Charles Leclerc and Carlos Sainz drove a car in red and white, based on Ferrari’s previous designs, in Las Vegas.
In blue and white (ie the usual US racing colors), Ferrari competed at Watkins Glen and Mexico in 1964 with John Surtees. And so it happened.
Enzo Ferrari once again clashed with the international car club in protest, Ferrari did not appear in America in the traditional red color. It was the same shortly after at the Mexican Grand Prix. Surtees became world champion there, but not with a red Ferrari 158.
Enzo Ferrari and the party had argued over the integration of the new mid-engine Ferrari 250 LM. The founder of the company was angry that the Italian association ACI did not support him, returned his racing license and quickly announced that he would no longer compete in the red Ferrari. In fact, the dispute was later resolved and Ferraris reappeared in standard colors in 1965.
Enzo Ferrari had held a grudge since 1962. At that time he wanted the 250 GTO model to be accepted for use in GT racing. According to the Italian racing association, one hundred cars were to be built for the negotiations. But Ferrari was not ready. The crafty Enzo showed the number of cars to the management, then we got coffee. Meanwhile, the cars were driven to another location and presented to the officers as spare cars after the coffee break. To this day, Tifosi passionately debates whether this is myth or fact. But stories like these are part of the fascination with Ferrari.
In any case, the story goes like this: the party didn’t want to be taken as a fool twice and simply rejected the 250 LM talks. Where Enzo exploded. Officially, Ferrari was not racing the Formula 1 World Championship in the United States and Mexico in 1964, but the customer team NART (North American Racing Team), with Ferrari importer Luigi Chinetti as operations manager.
