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An exclusive livery for the SF-24 in Florida featuring colours from Ferrari’s past to celebrate the debut of new title partner HP.
Ferrari looks forward to a memorable weekend in Miami, hosting several activities linked to the marque’s tradition and passion for innovation in its seventieth year on the North American market. The Scuderia will be one of the show’s stars over the Floridian weekend, and the cars will sport a special livery celebrating two colours from its past, Azzurro La Plata and Azzurro Dino. These shades of blue were part of daily life in Maranello for many years and are now coming back into play after an absence of around fifty years. The Miami weekend will also provide a fantastic backdrop for HP’s debut as the team’s new title partner.
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Exclusive livery. The most significant change is the recently announced arrival of HP as the title partner for the coming seasons so that from this race, the team will be competing in the Grands Prix under the name of Scuderia Ferrari HP. The partnership extends globally beyond Formula 1, and on the racing side, it also includes the car that Maya Weug races in Ferrari colours in the F1 Academy, the all-female driver series for the fastest women on the planet, including her Scuderia Ferrari Driver Academy colleague, Aurelia Nobels. The HP partnership also supports Maranello’s young driver programme, established in 2009, and the Esports team. The dominant colour of the new title partner’s logo is a perfect fit with the theme chosen by the Maranello marque for the week in Miami, namely the return of the two colours from the past, Azzurro La Plata and Azzurro Dino. For this weekend only, these tones will feature on the two SF-24s. The splashes of colour will be used on the wings, the engine cover, the halo, the rear-view mirrors, the race numbers and, in a nod to the past, on the wheel rims, as was the case back in the Sixties, starting with the 158 F1 with which John Surtees clinched the world championship title in North America, sixty years ago. The Miami livery also evokes memories of the single-seaters and sports cars entered by the American Ferrari importer, Luigi Chinetti, under the NART (North American Racing Team) banner, including those above blue and white 158 F1 driven by Surtees and red Ferraris with dark blue stripes. Blue was also featured in the various Ferraris entered in sports car races in the Sixties by the British importer Maranello Concessionaires.
Team kit. As hinted at recently, on the Sunday of the Grand Prix, Charles and Carlos and almost all team members will be wearing a special team kit, mainly in Azzurro La Plata with flashes of Azzurro Dino, including the race suit, shoes, gloves and helmet. The light blue of Azzurro La Plata was Argentina’s official race colour in the Fifties, similar to the one that Italy’s Alberto Ascari favoured and used regularly in his most successful years on the track. The two-time world champion would always wear a shirt and helmet in this colour as a lucky charm. In 1952, Ascari tackled the Indianapolis 500 Miles in a Ferrari 375 Special, explicitly built for the race, with a blue nose section. In the Sixties, Surtees, Lorenzo Bandini, Ludovico Scarfiotti and Chris Amon wore blue suits, as did Niki Lauda in his first year with the Scuderia. The mechanics and the factory staff also had blue overalls, in keeping with the stereotype of the “blue collar” worker, as opposed to the “white collar” office staff and management.
