In 2022, supercar manufacturer Ferrari released its 75th anniversary commemorative logo, creating a prancing horse sculpture, which is composed of thousands of parts and assembled by Ferrari employees one by one, highlighting Ferrari's passion, teamwork and excellence. values.
As we all know, Ferrari's brand logo is a "Red Devil Prancing Horse" with a high horse's head. The yellow background color is taken from the canary of Modena to commemorate the hometown of "father of racing" Enzo Ferrari. The three colors of , white and red represent the Italian flag. The SF at the bottom is the abbreviation of Ferrari's team name "Scuderia Ferrari", which symbolizes Ferrari's free galloping and fearless fighting spirit in the world.
But what is little known is that although this car logo is admired by all, its original designer was not Ferrari himself, but a couple who gave it to him, and there is an indissoluble bond between Ferrari and horses. What's going on? On February 18, 1898, Enzo Ferrari was born in Modena, northern Italy. His father was not only a skilled cast iron player, but also an intoxicated racing fan
. When he was 10 years old, his father took Ferrari to Bologna to watch a car race. The thrilling and thrilling scenes on the field deeply attracted Ferrari. He looked forward to becoming an excellent racing driver in the future. But the mother strongly opposed it. She felt that racing was too dangerous and she didn't want her son to take risks. Ferrari couldn't hold back his mother, so he had no choice but to suppress his desire to become a racing driver, but the more he restrained, the stronger his desire became. One day, Ferrari was taking a nap, and suddenly dreamed that he fell off the racing car. He opened his eyes vigorously, and it turned out that he rolled over from the bed and fell to the ground. He got up from the ground and rubbed his sore thigh. He felt that his heart was empty and could only be filled with a racing car, but the racing car was so far away from him. When he was depressed, he suddenly heard the neighing of a horse. The neighing sound was like the engine of a racing car was turned on. He shook his head and opened the window. It turned out that the herd of horses raised by his father passed by the door.
The horses held their proud heads high, their hoofs were churning, their long manes were flying, one on top of the other, condensed into a whole, and they moved forward quickly. The galloping beauty was like a race on a racing track. . Since my mother doesn't let me get involved in racing, I will learn to ride a horse. Although the back of a horse is not as comfortable as the seat of a car, it still feels like conquering!
But Ferrari did not expect that it would not be easy to conquer horses. His father put him on the horse's back. When he clamped his legs, the horse didn't move forward, but swung from side to side. He grabbed the rein tightly and almost fell off.
My father said that a fierce horse was not allowed to be ridden by strangers at the beginning. If you want to tame it, you need to establish a relationship with it first.
Therefore, Ferrari chose a brown horse, and followed it every day after school. After a week of persistence, the eyes of the brown horse gradually softened, and Ferrari began to try to approach it slowly.
Every day, Ferrari would give the brown horse some food, pat its head and touch its body from time to time to enhance mutual affection. Slowly, they become friends, and Ferrari is no longer repulsive when on horseback.
Riding on the horse, Ferrari raised the rein with both hands, clamped the horse's belly with his legs, and whispered "drive--", and the horse started to gallop, leaving all the other horses behind. Ferrari likes this feeling of flying, like sitting in a racing car, surpassing all opponents.
At the age of 13, Ferrari was quite proficient in horse riding. Seeing that he had such courage at a young age, his mother finally allowed him to learn to drive a car alone.
However, the good times didn't last long. At the age of 18, Ferrari's father died of illness. Soon, the war claimed the life of his brother, and he had to be drafted into the army.
After the end of the First World War and his retirement, the 20-year-old Ferrari faced the first serious setback in his life. The family-owned steel factory that his father had painstakingly managed closed down and stopped production. The family's living conditions plummeted, and his job disappeared.
Ferrari was not disheartened. Instead, relying on his enthusiasm for racing, he paired a racing partner with a friend and joined the Samny Racing Team at his own expense, experiencing the unique crazy excitement of motorsports for the first time.
At the age of 22, Ferrari won the runner-up in the Grand Prix, and was favored by the boss of Alfa Romeo Automobile Manufacturing Company, and became a test driver who "joked about his life".
He put all his energy into his favorite racing car and formed his own team, but the reality was not as he imagined.
In 1924, Ferrari represented Romeo in the European CP competition held in Lyon, France, but he suffered a heavy blow here. His car was left far behind by his opponent within a few laps, and failed. The taste made him almost lose confidence in the team.
At this moment, a couple of earls were moved by Ferrari's enthusiasm for racing, so they found him and wanted to give him a prancing horse logo symbolizing speed and courage.
The countess said: "This logo was used by my son on the plane. He is a heroic and skilled air force general. If you paint the prancing horse totem that he originally painted on the fighter jets on your racing car, it will not only I can fulfill my son’s ambition of cruising the horizon, and it will definitely bring you good luck!”
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Qi . The first sight of the Prancing Horse logo, Ferrari’s heart was deeply touched, and then Isn't the galloping horse the same as the fierce horse he tamed when he was young? Youthful ambitions rekindled, and Ferrari readily accepted the Countess' proposal.
It turned out that this couple was the parents of Count Francis Baraka, Italy's number one ace pilot. During World War I, Baraka was brave and good at fighting, shot down many enemy planes and won 34 victories.
One day, Baraka shot down a German enemy plane and found a prancing horse printed on the plane. It turned out that the German pilot was from Stuttgart, and he printed the city's emblem on the plane. Baraka thought the Prancing Horse logo was very imposing, so he sprayed it on his plane.
Later, Baraka died in a battle in 1918. In the wreckage of the plane, the Prancing Horse logo was intact. Baraka's parents kept it. They thought their son was an invincible hero. , although he is gone, his spirit is still there, and they are always looking for someone who can inherit the spiritual quality and logo of their child.
After listening to the story of the count and his wife, Ferrari respected the Prancing Horse logo more and more. He added the Italian national emblem as "Heaven" on the top of the "Prancing Horse", and then connected "Ferrari" with "Ferrari" horizontally to form "Earth". , and finally use yellow, the representative color of his hometown of Modena, to render the full frame and combine it into a heroic totem of "Between heaven and earth, let me gallop".
In 1932, Ferrari returned to the racing field for the first time with a racing car with the Prancing Horse logo. Won the championship and became a dark horse in the automobile industry at that time.
Later, Ferrari took on the important task of the captain of the racing team of Romeo Automobile Manufacturing Company. At the same time, he led some driver friends to set up his own team and named it "Ferrari Racing Team" after himself. This team is sponsored by Romeo, and all its cars are It is a product of Romeo.
As the number of races increased, Ferrari became more and more fond of the Prancing Horse logo. Every time he got on the red racing car, he felt very close, as if the racing car was his relatives, and he could immediately feel the infinite power of the Prancing Horse. .
Relying on his own understanding of horses and racing cars, Ferrari modified the logo at this time, with sharp corners appearing on the top of the shield, and "S F" on both sides of the lower part of the shield, which is Ferrari's team name "Scuderia". "Ferrari", he hopes that the Ferrari team will always move forward bravely and be invincible.
Over the past few years, this logo has brought countless victories to the team. Romeo 8C, P3 and other models of racing cars with the Prancing Horse logo have achieved overwhelming advantages in various international arenas. In various competitions such as the Migot Grand Prix and the Tag Flore Grand Prix, he participated in 39 grands prix and won 11 championships.
Ferrari has made great contributions to Romeo Automobile Manufacturing Company's top spot in the world's sports car industry. However, due to the growing reputation of the "Ferrari Racing Team", even if Ferrari is restrained, it is difficult to get rid of the suspicion of overpowering the master.
Therefore, the owner of Romeo Automobile Manufacturing Company forced Ferrari to hand over power, and Ferrari confronted the boss with confidence. As a result, the relationship did not ease up, and the conflict became deeper and deeper. Ferrari did not want to continue to survive in this harsh environment, so he resolutely resigned and left Romeo car manufacturing company, decided to start an independent business.
However, the reality was much crueler than he imagined. In the next race, his old club spent a lot of money to build a new car and introduced a lot of advanced technologies. Although Ferrari performed normally, even with all its strength, Still lost to the opponent.
All of a sudden, his previous limelight was seized by others. What was more difficult was that without the sponsorship of the car manufacturing company, the team's capital chain was soon broken, and he had to disband the team.
Walking on the street at midnight, Ferrari feels that life is like a drama, with ups and downs seemingly in a moment. Unknowingly, he walked to the edge of the field in the suburbs. Looking far away, there was a large-scale farm in the distance. Perhaps, only these farmers were indifferent to the world.
Suddenly, he heard the neighing of a fierce horse, which was particularly loud in the silent night sky. Listening to this familiar neighing, Ferrari seemed to have returned to his childhood, and his dream of racing came out again. He felt that he must find a way to overcome the difficulties.
He began to carefully analyze this defeat, mainly due to the fact that other people's car configurations were higher than his own, so if he wanted to win, he had to keep improving technically.
So, he began to study the performance of the car more carefully, and every time he made a small change, he would drive the car to the track and try again and again. However, he soon discovered that with his unremitting efforts, although he had made a lot of adjustments, the increase in speed was not large, and he still had no chance of winning.
Stealing the plane,
sharpening . One year later, Ferrari saw that his research had not improved much, and he couldn't help but feel anxious. Fortunately, there was a farm in the suburbs. Every time he felt anxious, he would go for a walk around the farm. .
That day, he heard the horse's cry again on the ridge of the field. When he looked up, a plane happened to pass by. His heart moved, and he suddenly thought of the pilot Baraka. At that time, the brown horse and the plane were shaking in front of my eyes. Since they are all taking off, but the plane can fly so high, can the power of the plane be used in the car?
Excited by this discovery, he immediately went home and began to consult a large amount of aircraft information. Unexpectedly, this investigation surprised him. Many accessories of cars and airplanes have the same functions. Ferrari decided to "steal" the technology on the plane and apply it to racing.
Turbocharging was widely used in aircraft engines at that time. The original intention was to solve the problem of insufficient oxygen supply when the aircraft was flying at high altitude. Ferrari has been improved and installed a turbocharged engine on the racing car. Due to its excellent performance in terms of power and fuel consumption, the speed of the car has increased a lot.
Next, Ferrari slowly equipped the car with advanced technologies such as steering by wire, fly-by-wire braking, ABS anti-lock braking system, and head-up display.
It took a full 7 years to do all this. When Ferrari appeared on the field again, it was already 1947.
After so many years of struggling to gain momentum, and facing the opportunity after the end of the Second World War, the 49-year-old Ferrari finally waited for the day when he could feel proud. He had a unique vision and acted by ear, and founded the Ferrari car manufacturing company in Maranello, a city in Bologna, northern Italy.
Soon, he launched the first car after the improvement of the "stealing teacher" aircraft, which was named "Ferrari Tipol25" after himself. At the same time, a new rectangular car logo was born together with the new car. Its top is still The combination of green, white and red stripes that symbolize Italy, the main body in the middle is still a black prancing horse, and the word "Ferrari" is printed on the bottom, where the horizontal line at the top of "F" extends to the position of the last "i" letter.
This racing car with the logo of Ferrari "Red Devil Ridge" is equipped with a 1992 cc inline six-cylinder engine. With its excellent appearance design and power system, it has suddenly become the most popular sports car for car fans.
On the field, the turbocharged engine of this racing car combined with the dual-clutch transmission allowed it to surpass all competitors at the time, and won the double championships in the 1948 Italian Taka Furio and Miri Mailia competitions , "Ferrari" became famous in one fell swoop.
In the next 3 years, Ferrari has successively produced Tipo166, Tipo195, Tipo212, Tipo225 and other racing cars. At that time, Ferrari cars were all designed by Ferrari himself. He built the car with the double identity of a race car athlete and an artist, so his car had strong dynamics and bright colors, and at the same time, every part in the cab was coordinated. It is seamless, allowing the driver to operate with ease.
Ferrari cars are mainly red, so some people call it a red prancing horse or a red magic Ferrari. Ferrari has lived up to people's expectations and has won many championships successively. In 1956, the blue flag car improved by Ferrari won the highest honor in the world's car competition - the annual championship of Formula One.
A series of victories has established Ferrari's supremacy in the world's car industry. In addition to manufacturing racing cars and participating in competitions, Ferrari continues to manufacture Ferrari sports cars in order to maintain cars with cars and use the profits from selling sports cars to support its own racing plan.
At that time, Ford of the United States once intended to acquire Ferrari, but Ferrari resolutely rejected it. He worried that his racing plans would be disrupted if his company were owned by Ford. So it wasn't until 1969 that Ferrari agreed to let the Fiat company of its own country buy it, on the condition that the other party would not interfere with its racing activities in the years to come.
Since then, his career has been even more inseparable from the thrilling car competitions, and his famous sports cars have been rushed out after failures and tests, and are deeply loved by car fans. Whenever Ferrari wins, the fans fanatically call Ferrari the "Father of Racing". The F1 car he designed has won more than 100 victories in world competitions. Up to now, no car can break this record.
However, one day, Ferrari did not expect that Porsche would come to find fault, and even said that the Prancing Horse logo of the Ferrari car was "stolen" from them, and the horse in the logo was the same. Ferrari smiled slightly: "My prancing horse is indeed from Germany, but it is not the same horse as the one in the Porsche logo."
It turned out that because Stuttgart is rich in expensive horses, the Porsche designer used it in the shield pattern on the yellow background. A running horse is used as the core, and the letters of Stuttgart are placed directly above the horse. At the same time, this logo was also fused with the Hohenzollern logo of the company's location at that time, and finally formed the first-generation Porsche logo of "one shield and one shield".
The horse on the Ferrari logo originally came from the German pilot who was shot down by Baraka. So, the horses on the Ferrari and Porsche logos are both from Stuttgart, but not the same horse.
Porsche originally wanted to use this incident to suppress its rival Ferrari, but it was not expected to be easily resolved by Ferrari, and an own incident was left alone.
Along the way, Ferrari's "Red Devil Prancing Horse" logo has also undergone a series of minor adjustments, becoming more three-dimensional and more modern a little bit, but the theme of "Prancing Horse" has not changed at all. The latest change to the Ferrari logo was in 2000, and the adjustments this time are still minimal, only the part of the light on the prancing horse and the posture of the front legs have changed, and the dot on the "i" letter on the Ferrari text has changed from an ellipse to becomes a rectangle.
In people's impression, Ferrari is unsmiling and serious, but the racing cars he designed are sexy, amazing, speed, vitality, luxury, steel elements, original handwork, and enthusiasm like red flames... Ferrari has gone beyond the scope of transportation and has become Great work of art.
At the age of 89, Ferrari has not stopped working, and is still as sharp as a steel needle. Under the glass cushion of his desk, there is a line of words written by himself: "One must continue to work, otherwise there will be thoughts of death. I like it the most. The car has not been built yet, my greatest success is that I have not achieved success, some people say that I never know how to be satisfied, maybe this statement is true, if I am easy to be satisfied, I believe that Ferrari will not become the favorite of fans The super sports car.”
On August 14, 1988, Ferrari passed away in Modena, and the then Italian Prime Minister commented affectionately: “What we have lost is a man who can symbolize Italy’s youthful vigor, adventure, perseverance and forge ahead in the field of technology. A model character." In the
blink of an eye, Ferrari has driven 75 springs and autumns in its life. Since the first Ferrari wearing the "Red Devil Prancing Horse" logo won the championship, the "Prancing Horse Legend" has created more than 5,000 races The glorious history of winning championships, and the story of Ferrari and the "Prancing Horse" is still continuing...
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