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Rosso Corsa Color 814 - #D40000

Since the 1920s Italian race cars of Alfa Romeo, Maserati, Lancia, and later Ferrari and Abarth have been painted in rosso corsa ("racing red"). This was the customary national racing color of Italy as recommended between the world wars by the organizations that later became the FIA. In that scheme of international auto racing colors French cars were blue (Bleu de France), British cars were green (British racing green), etc.

In Formula One, the color was not determined by the country the car was made in nor by the nationality of the driver(s) but by the nationality of the team entering the vehicle.

National colors were mostly replaced in Formula One by commercial sponsor liveries in 1968, but unlike most other teams, Ferrari always kept the traditional red but the shade of the colour varies.