What Is Scuderia Ferrari?
Scuderia Ferrari is the Formula 1 racing team of the Italian car manufacturer Ferrari, based in Maranello, Italy. Founded by Enzo Ferrari in 1929 — nearly two decades before the first car carried his name — it is the oldest surviving team in Grand Prix racing and the only constructor to have entered every Formula 1 World Championship season since the series began in 1950.
The team has won 16 Constructors’ Championships and 15 Drivers’ Championships, more than any rival, and holds the record for Grand Prix victories. Its cars race in rosso corsa, the national racing colour of Italy, under the badge of the cavallino rampante — the prancing horse adopted by Enzo Ferrari from the fuselage of Italian First World War flying ace Francesco Baracca.
Ferrari is unusual in modern Formula 1 in that it designs and builds both its chassis and its own power unit at the same site, and also supplies engines to customer teams. That vertical integration, and a fanbase — the tifosi — that follows the team rather than any single driver, is why a Ferrari season is measured differently from anyone else’s: not in points alone, but in whether Maranello was in the fight.
