Scuderia Ferrari (/fəˈrɑːri/;Italian:[skudeˈriːaferˈraːri]), currently racing underScuderia Ferrari HP, is the racing division of luxury Italian auto manufacturerFerrari and the racing team that competes inFormula One racing. The team is also known by the nickname "the Prancing Horse" (Italian:il Cavallino Rampante or simplyil Cavallino), in reference to their logo. It is the oldest surviving andmost successful Formula One team, having competed in every World Championship since1950.
Schumacher is the team's most successful driver. Joining the team in1996 and driving for them until his first retirement in2006, he won five consecutive drivers' titles and 72 Grands Prix for the team. His titles came consecutively between2000 and2004, and the team won consecutive constructors' titles between1999 and 2004, marking the era as the most successful period in the team's history. The team's drivers for the2025 season areCharles Leclerc and seven-time Formula One World ChampionLewis Hamilton.
Scuderia Ferrari was founded byEnzo Ferrari in 1929 to enter amateur drivers in various races.[8] Ferrari himself had raced in Costruzioni Meccaniche Nazionali andAlfa Romeo cars before that date. The idea came about on the night of 16 November at a dinner inBologna, where Ferrari solicited financial help from textile heirs Augusto and Alfredo Caniato and wealthy amateur racer Mario Tadini. He then gathered a team which at its peak included over forty drivers, most of whom raced in variousAlfa Romeo 8C cars; Ferrari himself continued racing, with moderate success, until the birth of his first sonDino in 1932. The prancing horse blazon first appeared at the 1932Spa 24 Hours in Belgium on a two-car team ofAlfa Romeo 8C 2300 Spiders, which finished first and second.
In 1933, Alfa Romeo experienced economic difficulties and withdrew its team from racing. From then, the Scuderia Ferrari became the acting racing team of Alfa Romeo when the factory released to the Scuderia the up to dateMonoposto Tipo B racers. In 1935, Enzo Ferrari and Luigi Bazzi built theAlfa Romeo Bimotore, the first car to wear a Ferrari badge on the radiator cowl. Ferrari managed numerous established drivers (notablyTazio Nuvolari,Giuseppe Campari,Achille Varzi, andLouis Chiron) and several talented rookies (Mario Tadini,Guy Moll,Carlo Maria Pintacuda, andAntonio Brivio) from his headquarters in Viale Trento e Trieste,Modena, Italy, until 1938, at which point Alfa Romeo made him the manager of the factory racing division,Alfa Corse. Alfa Romeo had bought the shares of the Scuderia Ferrari in 1937 and transferred, from 1 January 1938,[9] the official racing activity toAlfa Corse whose new buildings were being erected next to the Alfa factory atPortello, Milan. The Viale Trento e Trieste facilities remained active to assist the racing customers.
Enzo Ferrari disagreed with this policy change and was dismissed by Alfa in 1939. In October 1939, Enzo Ferrari left Alfa when the racing activity stopped and founded Auto Avio Costruzioni Ferrari, which also manufactured machine tools. The agreement with Alfa included the condition that he would not use the Ferrari name on cars for four years. In the winter of 1939–1940, Ferrari started work on a racecar of his own, theTipo 815 (eight cylinders, 1.5 L displacement).[10] The 815s, designed byAlberto Massimino, were thus the first true Ferrari cars. AfterAlberto Ascari and the Marchese Lotario Rangoni Machiavelli di Modena drove them in the 1940Mille Miglia,World War II put a temporary end to racing and the 815s saw no more competition. Ferrari continued to manufacture machine tools (specifically oleodynamic grinding machines). In 1943, he moved his headquarters toMaranello, where it was bombed in November 1944 and February 1945.[11][12]
Rules for a Grand Prix World Championship had been discussed before the war; it took several years afterwards for the series to become active. Meanwhile, Ferrari rebuilt his works in Maranello and constructed the 12-cylinder, 1.5 LTipo 125, which competed at several non-championship Grands Prix. The car made its debut at the1948 Italian Grand Prix withRaymond Sommer and achieved its first win at the minor Circuito di Garda withGiuseppe Farina. After the four-year condition expired, the road car company was called FerrariS.p.A., while the name SEFAC (Società Esercizio Fabbriche Automobili e Corse) was used for the racing department.[13]
The team was based inModena from its pre-war founding until 1943, when Enzo Ferrari moved the team to a new factory inMaranello in 1943,[14] and both Scuderia Ferrari and Ferrari's road car factory remain at Maranello to this day. The team owns and operates a test track on the same site, theFiorano Circuit built in 1972, which is used for testing road and race cars.
The team is named after its founderEnzo Ferrari.Scuderia is Italian for a stable reserved for racing horses,[15] and is also commonly applied to Italian motor racing teams. The prancing horse was the symbol used on ItalianWorld War I aceFrancesco Baracca's fighter plane. It became the logo of Ferrari after the fallen ace's parents, close acquaintances of Enzo Ferrari, suggested that Ferrari use the symbol as the logo of theScuderia, telling him it would "bring him good luck".[16]
Since its debut in 1950, Ferrari has become a byword forFormula One. For many, Ferrari andFormula One racing have become inseparable, being the only team to have competed in every season since the world championship began.[17]
For the2025 season, Ferrari supplies theHaas F1 Team andSauber Motorsport.[18] Sauber will no longer receive power units from Ferrari for 2026 and onwards as the team will use Audi power units after the team was purchased by Audi.[19]In December 2024, Ferrari announced that the forthcomingCadillac Formula One team had signed a multi-year deal to use their engines and gearboxes from 2026 onwards, until GM PPU develops an F1-ready power unit.[20]
Ferrari did not enter the first-ever race of the championship, the1950 British Grand Prix, due to a dispute with the organisers over "start money". In the 1960s, Ferrari withdrew from several races in strike actions. In 1987, Ferrari considered abandoning Formula One for the American IndyCar series. This threat was used as a bargaining tool with theFédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA), and Enzo Ferrari offered to cancel the IndyCar Project and commit to Formula One on the condition that the technical regulations were not changed to exclude V12 engines. The FIA agreed to this, and the IndyCar project was shelved, although a car, theFerrari 637, had already been constructed. In 2009, it had emerged that Ferrari had an FIA-sanctioned veto on the technical regulations.[21]
Team orders have proven controversial at several points in Ferrari's history. At the1982 San Marino Grand Prix, the two Ferraris were leading withGilles Villeneuve ahead ofDidier Pironi. The team showed the slow sign to its drivers, and, as per a pre-race agreement, the driver leading at that point was expected to take the win of the Grand Prix. Villeneuve slowed and expected that Pironi would follow; the latter did not and instead passed Villeneuve. Villeneuve was angered by what he saw as a betrayal by his teammate and, at one point, had even refused to go onto the podium.[22] This feud is often considered to have been a contributory factor to his fatal accident in qualifying at the next race, the1982 Belgian Grand Prix.[23][24]
On lap 49 of the2010 German Grand Prix,Fernando Alonso went pastFelipe Massa for the race lead, after Ferrari had informed Massa that Alonso was "faster than him". This communication has widely been interpreted as a team order from Ferrari. Alonso won the race, with Massa finishing second andSebastian Vettel taking the final place on the podium.[30] Ferrari were fined the maximum penalty available to the stewards, $100,000, for breach of regulations and for "bringing the sport into disrepute" as per "Article 151c' of theInternational Sporting Code". Ferrari said they would not contest the fine. The team were referred to theFIA World Motor Sport Council, where they upheld the stewards' view but did not take any further action.[31][32] The ban on team orders was subsequently lifted for the2011 season.[33]
Various company logos on display onMichael Schumacher'sF2005 during the2005 German Grand Prix, showing sponsorship such as from Philip Morris, Shell, Vodafone, Bridgestone and AMD
The Ferrari Formula One team was resistant to thecommercial sponsorship for many years and it was not until1977 that the cars began to feature the logo of theFiat group (which had been the owners of the Ferrari company since1969). Until the 1980s, the only other companies whose logos appeared on Ferrari's Formula One cars were technical partners, such asMagneti Marelli,Brembo, andAgip. At the end of the1996 season,Philip Morris International through its brandMarlboro withdrew its sponsorship agreement withMcLaren after 22 years (since the1974 season) to become the title sponsor of Ferrari, resulting to the change of the official team's name toScuderia Ferrari Marlboro from the beginning of the1997 season until the2011 European Grand Prix. Marlboro had already been Ferrari's minor sponsor since the1984 season and increased to the team's major sponsorship in the1993 season.
A Ferrari truck displaying Ferrari's sponsors in 2008
AlongsideJordan Grand Prix, the team was required to run non-tobacco liveries inUnited States Grand Prix in the 2000s due to United StatesTobacco Master Settlement Agreement requirements, as Phillip Morris was sponsoringTeam Penske at the time; a clause in the settlement allowed each tobacco company to sponsor only one sporting entity.[34] In September 2005, Ferrari signed an extension of the arrangement until 2011 at a time when advertising of tobacco sponsorship had become illegal in the European Union, and other major teams had withdrawn from relationships with tobacco companies (e.g. McLaren had ended its eight-year relationship withWest). In reporting the deal,F1 Racing magazine judged it to be a black day for the sport, putting non-tobacco funded teams at a disadvantage and discouraging other brands from entering a sport still associated with tobacco. The magazine estimated that between 2005 and 2011, Ferrari received $1 billion from the agreement. The last time Ferrari ran explicit tobacco sponsorship on the car was at the2007 Chinese Grand Prix, with barcodes and other subliminal markers used afterwards.
On 8 July 2011, it was announced that theMarlboro section of its official team name had been removed from the2011 British Grand Prix onwards, following complaints from sponsorship regulators.[35] As a consequence, the official team's name was reverted to Scuderia Ferrari. At the2018 Japanese Grand Prix, Ferrari added Philip Morris International's new Mission Winnow project logos to the car and team clothing.[36] Although Mission Winnow is described as a non-tobacco brand "dedicated to science, technology and innovation", commentators such asThe Guardian's Richard Williams have noted that the logos incorporate elements whose shapes mimic the iconic Marlboro cigarette packet design.[37] In 2019, Mission Winnow became the team's title sponsor, and the team originally entered the2019 season as Scuderia Ferrari Mission Winnow.[38] Mission Winnow was dropped from team name before the season opener,[39] while the car's Mission Winnow logos were replaced by a special 90th anniversary logo,[40] after Australian authorities had launched an investigation into whether the initiative introduced by Philip Morris contravened laws banning tobacco advertising.[41] Mission Winnow was restored for the second race of the season,[42] and was used until the Monaco Grand Prix.[43] The Mission Winnow logos were again replaced by the 90th anniversary logos for the Canadian until the Russian Grand Prix.[41] The Mission Winnow branding returned at the Japanese Grand Prix.[44] At the end of the2021 season, the Mission Winnow sponsorship was dropped to promote new technologies.[45]
On 10 September 2009, Ferrari announced that it would be sponsored bySantander from 2010 on a five-year contract.[46] The contract was subsequently extended to end in late 2017.[47] After a four-year break,Santander and Ferrari renewed their partnership on 21 December 2021 with a multi-year contract.[48] As part of the deal withAcer, Acer was allowed to sell Ferrari-badged laptops.[49] On the other hand, semiconductor chip makerAMD, announced in early 2009 that it had decided to drop its sponsorship of the team and was waiting for its contract to expire after its former vice-president/sales executive (who was an avid fan of motorsports) had left the company.[50] AMD returned to sponsor the team in 2018.[51] On 3 July 2014, Ferrari announced a two-year sponsorship agreement with the United States–basedHaas Automation tool company, which transferred into a powertrain deal in 2016 when theHaas F1 Team entered the sport.[52]
On 24 April 2024, the team announced a multi-year title partnership withHP Inc., renaming the team (including E-sports and F1 Academy) as Scuderia Ferrari HP from the2024 Miami Grand Prix onwards.[56][57]
From the late 1940s to the early 1970s, Ferrari competed in sports car racing with great success, winning the overallWorld Sportscar Championship (WSC) twelve times. Ferrari cars (including non-works entries) won theMille Miglia eight times, theTarga Florio seven times, and the24 Hours of Le Mans nine times. In this span of time, Ferrari was almost the only constructor able to support the participation in both the two most important categories of international car motor racing at the time, i.e. theFormula One andendurance racing championships. The fact that it did so, achieving remarkable success with few resources and coming from an impoverished post-World War II Italy, it is seen as a testament to the prowess, passion, and dedication to the men of the Scuderia and its founder. Ferrari scored international successes insports car racing while still at the startup phase, taking wins in 1948 at the Mille Miglia and at the Targa Florio with theFerrari 166 S and in 1949 at the Mille Miglia, at the12 Hours of Paris, at the24 Hours of Spa, at the Targa Florio, and at the 24 Hours of Le Mans all in the same season. This remarkable streak of victories was achieved with the 2-litreFerrari 166 MM against larger enginedsports cars and already known marques. The 166MM in its famous barchetta form represented also a milestone in car design history and was soon copied abroad, ending up revisited in the lines of theShelby Cobra of the early 1960s. Ferrari cars, being able to win at the first try at Le Mans and to triumph in all the major races of the time, become soon a product of excellence and famous, rich people started to desire and buy them.
The streak of prestigious victories continued the following seasons with wins at theCarrera Panamericana in 1951, at the 1950 and 1951 Mille Miglia, and almost at the same time Ferrari started to win in Formula One at several international events. In 1953, with the creation of the WSC, Ferrari, along with other manufacturers likeAston Martin,Maserati,Mercedes-Benz, andJaguar began to enter multiple factory-backed cars in races, such as the Carrera Panamericana in Mexico, the 24 Hours of Le Mans in France, the Mille Miglia in Italy, the 24 Hours of Spa in Belgium, theNürburgring 1000 km in Germany, and the Sicilian Targa Florio. Ferrari launched a large range of sports racers over the next three years. This included the traditional compactColombo V12-poweredFerrari 250 MM; the largerV12 Lampredi-powered340 MM,375 MM,375 Plus, and410 S; andJano-powered290 MM,315 S, and335 S; the four-cylinder 500, 625, 750, and 860Monzas; and the six-cylinder376 S and735 LM. With this potent line-up, Ferrari was able to claim six of the first seven WSC titles (1953, 1954, 1956, 1957, and 1958).
In the first half of the 1960s, Ferrari continued to enjoy considerable success, including six overall wins in a row at the 24 Hours of Le Mans (from 1960 to 1965). With the introduction of theSports Prototypes class, the team developed theFerrari P series of cars. Up to the 1964 season, they faced little competition from major manufacturers, as onlyPorsche stayed in the series albeit with smaller engined cars that were able to be competitive only in selected races where engine power was less relevant and overall lightness was a premium, such as at the Targa Florio or at the Nurburgring. At the end of 1963, a conflict between Ferrari andFord over the potential acquisition of the Italian manufacturer by the American giant carmaker gave way to the famous "Ford vs. Ferrari war", a sort of modern David vs. Goliath battle that changed international motorsport forever. Ford decided to enter endurance racing pouring unprecedented amounts of money in the development of a racing department in England with the objective to beat Ferrari in this category of races. TheFord GT40 was born and developed in the years following that initiative. After a few years, Ford entered also the Formula One championship. No European manufacturer was able to compete with this level of investment at the time, and Ford engines dominated Formula One racing for over a decade. Moreover, the advent of the American carmaker brought along munificent sponsorships from American tobacco and oil companies, in addition to a bigger level of media coverage to the sport. Ferrari was able to prevail in the 1964 and 1965 seasons both in the championship and at the 24 Hours of Le Mans but had to concede Ford the victory in the 1966 championship and Le Mans race, when the 7-litre GT40 had a dominant season.
In 1967, the last year in which Ford and Ferrari battled for the championship, saw Ferrari taking the championship but losing at the 24 Hours of Le Mans race. This race was very controversial as the race timing disappeared entirely for multiple hours during the night before reappearing with altered results. This and other controversial aspects of the race were recounted by the lateMauro Forghieri, famously quoting a dialogue with Mr Finance, then in charge of organising the Le Mans race. A change of rules denying the participation to prototype cars for the 1968 season forced Ferrari out from the championship and resulted in the end of the Ford vs Ferrari battle in endurance racing. The 1970s was the last decade Ferrari entered as a works effort in sports car racing. After an uninspired performance in the1973 season,Enzo Ferrari stopped all development of sports cars in prototype andgrand touring (GT) racing at the end of the year to concentrate on Formula One. This choice paid off and Ferrari was able to contend the Formula One title already from the1974 season and then went on to win several titles in the following years. After Ferrari withdrawal from the WSC, the series soon saw a decline in the level of competition and reduced almost to a one-contender show until the 1987 season, when several manufacturers entered the championship again. Since the 1985 season, the championship was declassed to a team one and there was not a largely participated world manufacturer title for sportscars until the inception of theFIA World Endurance Championship (WEC). Ferrari cars were raced in a range of classes, such as GT racing by other entrants, but not by the factory Scuderia Ferrari team. In the 1990s, Ferrari returned to sports prototypes as a constructor with theFerrari 333 SP with success, although Scuderia Ferrari itself never raced this car.
From 2006, Ferrari returned to GT car racing with a factory effort Ferrari Competizioni GT, in partnership with racing teams, such asAF Corse,Kessel Racing, andRisi Competizione, among others. With factory support, these teams achieved great success in major international GT2 and GTE Pro/GTLM competitions. Starting from this same year, AF Corse won the GT2 manufacturers' title along with the team's title each year it was contested in theFIA GT Championship. It also took two drivers' titles in 2006 and 2008 in the same series. Following the demise of the GT Championship and the creation of a new world championship series for endurance racing by the FIA, Ferrari/AF Corse continued to enjoy much success in GT racing. Of the ten GT manufacturers' championships contested from the introduction of the WEC championship in 2012, Ferrari won seven editions (2012, 2013, 2014, 2016, 2017, 2021, and 2022). Almost the same happened with the GT drivers' title, which had been awarded since the 2013 season, with Ferrari/AF Corse winning five out of nine editions (2013, 2014, 2017, 2021, and 2022). To this tally, AF Corse added four out of six LMGTE PRO team trophies. Several other trophies were won also in the LMGTE PRO/AM class in the WEC. Other victories were also achieved in international and national championships both in GT2/LmGTE and GT3 classes all over the world. Among the victories in prestigious racing events are the two GT2 class wins scored at the 24 Hours of Le Mans in 2008 and 2009 by Risi Competizione and the four GTE Pro class wins scored by AF Corse at the same event: in 2012 and 2014 with theFerrari 458 GT2 driven byGianmaria Bruni,Giancarlo Fisichella, andToni Vilander; in 2019 with theFerrari 488 GTE Ferrari 488 GTE driven byAlessandro Pier Guidi,James Calado, andDaniel Serra; and in 2021 with the same car driven by Pier Guidi, Calado, andCôme Ledogar. AFerrari 488 GT3 scored the overall win at the2017 12 Hours of Bathurst and the2021 24 Hours of Spa.
Ferrari has achieved unparalleled success in Formula One and holds many significant records including (all numbers are based on World Championship events only). Ferrari is the most successful Formula One engine manufacturer with 249 wins, having achieved a single non-Ferrari victory withScuderia Toro Rosso at the2008 Italian Grand Prix, as well as one Ferrari privateer win at the1961 French Grand Prix.
^abIncludesNART entries. Does not include five podium finishes achieved in privately entered Ferraris.
^abThis is the number of different World Championship races in which a team-entered Ferrari set the fastest lap time. In both the1954 British Grand Prix and1970 Austrian Grand Prix, two drivers each set equal fastest lap time in team-entered Ferraris. This number does not includeGiancarlo Baghetti's fastest lap in the1961 Italian Grand Prix in a privately entered Ferrari.
^abThe extra 901.77 points (in drivers' vs. constructors' tally) are Ferrari drivers' points from 1950 to 1957, before the World Constructors' Championship was established in 1958, plus the fact that before 1979, only the highest-placed car per constructor scored points towards the Constructors' Championship
^"F1: Ferrari anuncia extensão de contrato de Leclerc" [Ferrari announces Leclerc contract extension, but makes mystery about the length of new deal].motorsport.uol.com.br (in Portuguese). 25 January 2024.Archived from the original on 25 January 2024. Retrieved25 January 2024.
Although World Championship races held in 1952 and 1953 were run to Formula Two regulations, constructors who only participated during this period are included herein to maintain Championship continuity. Constructors whose only participation in the World Championship was in theIndianapolis 500 races between 1950 and 1960 are not listed.
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