Editing Ferrari (section)

=== Colour ===
{{Main|Rosso corsa}}
[[File:2001 Ferrari 550 Barchetta no 135, front right side.jpg|thumb|A [[Ferrari 550]] painted in rosso corsa. Both varieties of the Prancing Horse logo are present: the shield is located in front of the door, the rectangle is on the bonnet. The horse alone can also be found on the wheels, grille, and seats.]]

For many years, {{lang|it|rosso corsa}} ({{gloss|racing red}})<ref name=Rees /> was the required colour of all Italian racing cars. It is also closely associated with Ferrari: even after livery regulations changed, allowing race teams to deviate from their [[List of international auto racing colours|national colours]], Scuderia Ferrari continued to paint its cars bright red, as it does to this day.<ref name=Kaslikowski >{{cite web |last=Kaslikowski |first=Adam |title=A Colorful History of Racing Hues: An Introduction (1 of 4) |website=Petrolicious |date=8 January 2014 |url=https://petrolicious.com/articles/the-colorful-history-of-national-racing-hues-an-introduction-1-of-4 |access-date=18 May 2023 |archive-date=18 May 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230518132832/https://petrolicious.com/articles/the-colorful-history-of-national-racing-hues-an-introduction-1-of-4 |url-status=live }}</ref> On Ferrari's road-going cars, the colour has always been among the company's most popular choices: in 2012, 40 per cent of Ferraris left the factory painted red, while in the early 1990s the figure was even higher, at 85 per cent.<ref name=Rees /><ref name=Wasef>{{cite web |last=Wasef |first=Basem |title=Why Are There Fewer Ferraris in Red? |website=Popular Mechanics |date=24 July 2012 |url=https://www.popularmechanics.com/cars/a7991/ferrari-red-no-longer-the-automatic-choice/ |access-date=18 May 2023 |archive-date=18 May 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230518131337/https://www.popularmechanics.com/cars/a7991/ferrari-red-no-longer-the-automatic-choice/ |url-status=live }}</ref> Some Ferrari vehicles, such as the [[Ferrari 288 GTO|288 GTO]], have only been made available in red.<ref name=Rees>{{cite web |author-last=Rees |author-first=Chris |title=Rosso Ferrari |website=Ferrari Magazine |url=https://www.ferrari.com/en-EN/magazine/articles/ferrari-colors-rosso-portofino-rosso-corsa-racing-red/ |date=20 March 2018 |access-date=14 March 2023 |archive-date=14 March 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230314054101/https://www.ferrari.com/en-EN/magazine/articles/ferrari-colors-rosso-portofino-rosso-corsa-racing-red |url-status=live }}</ref>

Although rosso corsa is the colour most associated with Ferrari,<ref name=Rees /><ref name=Sarne /> it has not always been the colour of choice. Ferraris raced by [[Privateer (motorsport)|privateers]] have run in a rainbow of colours, and one [[Ferrari 250 GT SWB|250 GT SWB]], used as a [[test mule]] for the 250 GTO, was a rare non-red [[factory-backed]] car: it raced in blue.<ref>{{cite web |author-last=Jupo |author-first=Ethan |title=The 9 best Ferrari liveries that aren't red |website=Goodwood |url=https://www.goodwood.com/grr/race/historic/2023/2/the-10-best-ferrari-liveries-that-arent-red/ |date=21 February 2023 |access-date=14 March 2023 |archive-date=14 March 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230314053400/https://www.goodwood.com/grr/race/historic/2023/2/the-10-best-ferrari-liveries-that-arent-red/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last=Thorson |first=Thor |title=The Experiment |website=Forza Magazine |date=30 November 2017 |url=https://www.forza-mag.com/issues/163/articles/the-experiment |access-date=16 May 2023 |quote=At any rate, the Sperimentale remains one of very few Ferraris, and possibly the only one, to have competed as a factory team entry in a color other than red. |archive-date=16 May 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230516143759/https://www.forza-mag.com/issues/163/articles/the-experiment |url-status=live }}</ref> In a particularly noteworthy case from 1964, while protesting the [[FIA]]'s [[Homologation (motorsport)|homologation]] requirements, the company moved its racing assets to the [[North American Racing Team]], an affiliated team based in the United States. As a result, Ferrari and the driver [[John Surtees]] won the [[1964 Formula One season]] in American colours—blue, with a white [[racing stripe]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Do you remember...when Ferrari raced in blue |website=Formula One |url=https://www.formula1.com/en/latest/features/2015/10/f1-do-you-remember-when-ferrari-raced-in-blue-in-mexico.html |date=28 October 2015 |access-date=14 March 2023 |archive-date=29 March 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180329083659/https://www.formula1.com/en/latest/features/2015/10/f1-do-you-remember-when-ferrari-raced-in-blue-in-mexico.html |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=When Ferrari raced in blue and white |website=Official Ferrari website |date=10 October 2018 |url=https://www.ferrari.com/en-EN/magazine/articles/when-ferrari-raced-blue-white |ref={{sfnref | Official Ferrari website | 2018}} |access-date=18 May 2023 |archive-date=18 May 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230518133422/https://www.ferrari.com/en-EN/magazine/articles/when-ferrari-raced-blue-white |url-status=live }}</ref> By the early 2010s, red had also become less common on Ferrari's road cars, fighting with newly popular colours such as yellow, silver, and white.<ref name=Wasef /><ref name=Sarne>{{cite web |last=Sarne |first=Vernon B. |title=Red paint job less popular among Ferrari customers today |website=Top Gear Philippines |date=22 June 2012 |url=https://www.topgear.com.ph/features/feature-articles/red-paint-job-less-popular-among-ferrari-customers-today |access-date=18 May 2023 |archive-date=18 May 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230518131329/https://www.topgear.com.ph/features/feature-articles/red-paint-job-less-popular-among-ferrari-customers-today |url-status=live }}</ref>

Speaking to both the popularity of rosso corsa and the power of the Ferrari brand, Enzo Ferrari is reported to have once said the following: "Ask a child to draw a car, and he will certainly paint it red."<ref name=Rees />