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Ferrari is the only team that has competed in every Formula One World Championship season without interruption since 1950. The Scuderia was founded back in 1929 by Enzo Ferrari, initially as the racing department of Alfa Romeo; it was not until 1947 that the first car under its own name, the 125 S, appeared. Maranello in the Emilia-Romagna region remains the team’s home to this day and stands as a symbol of Italian motorsport passion like no other place.

The black prancing horse on a yellow background, the Cavallino Rampante, traces back to the World War I flying ace Francesco Baracca, who carried it on his fighter plane. After his death, his mother, Countess Paolina Baracca, suggested to the young racing driver Enzo Ferrari in 1923 that he paint the horse on his cars as a good luck charm. It first appeared on the Scuderia’s race cars in 1932, with the yellow background taken from the colour of Modena, Enzo Ferrari’s home city.

With 16 constructors’ and 15 drivers’ championships, Ferrari is the most successful team in Formula One history. The Scuderia’s greatest run of success came between 2000 and 2004, when Michael Schumacher won five drivers’ titles in a row, and Ferrari claimed six consecutive constructors’ championships in the same period, a record only surpassed years later by Mercedes.

Since its last constructors’ title in 2008, Ferrari has been waiting to return to the top. Several drivers came close without quite managing it: Felipe Massa lost the drivers’ crown in 2008 by a single point in the final race, while Fernando Alonso narrowly fell short in 2010 and 2012. That long drought hasn’t changed the fact that the Tifosi remain among the most passionate fans in all of motorsport, treating every red corner as a home race.

Under team principal Frédéric Vasseur, who has been in charge in Maranello since 2023, the Scuderia has restructured itself both technically and organisationally. With Charles Leclerc and seven-time world champion Lewis Hamilton, who joined from Mercedes in 2025, Ferrari fields one of the most high-profile driver line-ups on the grid and enters the 2026 season with the clear aim of finally fighting for titles again.