Ferrarri is an Italian manufacturer of racing cars and high performance sport founded by Enzo Ferrarri in 1929. In the beginning, the Scuderia Ferrarri sponsored drivers and manufactured race car, and began his independent production company in 1946, later becoming Ferrarri SpA, and since 1969, when it was sold, part of the Fiat group. The company is based in Maranello, near Modena, Italy.

The "rampant horse"
The famous symbol of Ferrarri is a black horse cram a yellow background, always with the letters SF for Scuderia Ferrarri. 

The horse was originally the symbol of Count Francesco Baracca, a legendary "asso" (ace) of the Italian air force during World War I, that the paint on the side of their planes. Baracca died very young on June 19, 1918, killed after 34 victorious duels and many victories in the group, thus becoming a national hero. 

I cram the Baracca horse in their airplanes because his squad, the "Battaglione Aviator," was inscribed in a Cavalry regiment (air forces were in the their early years and had no separate administration), and also because he had a reputation for better Cavaliere (Knight) of his team. 

There was the assumption that the choice of a horse was in part because of the fact that his noble family was known for having many horses from their property in Lugo di Romagna. Another unproven theory suggests Baracca copied the design that horse cram a German pilot who had the emblem of the city of Stuttgart on his plane. Coincidence or not, the German car manufacturer Porsche, from Stuttgart, borrowed their logo used to cram the horse emblem of the city. 

On 17 June 1923, Enzo Ferrarri won a race at the circuit of Savio in Ravenna where he met the Countess Paolina, mother of Baracca. The Countess asked that he used the design of a horse in their cars, suggesting that this would give it good luck, but the first race in which Alfa Romeo has the use of the horse on Scuderia cars was eleven years of the later, the 24 Hours of Spa in 1932. A Ferrarri won. 

Ferrarri left the horse black as was done in the plane of Baracca, but he added a yellow background color because it was the symbol of his hometown, Modena. 

The horse tilt was not always identified as the Ferrarri brand only: Fabio Taglioni used it on his Ducati motorcycle. Tagliani's father was fa (c) to a companion of Baracca and fought with him in 91 Air Squadron, but while the Ferrarri's fame grew, Ducati abandoned the horse, this may have been the result of an agreement between private the two brands. The Ferrarri also works with brands of clothes, shoes and perfumes. In 2009 the Scuderia Ferrarri will start producing bikes. 

The horse is now cram a registered trademark of Ferrarri.

Sports cars 

The first models of Ferrarri were considered by most pilots, pure sports car, not the exotic cars that we know.

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