History of the Prancing Horse (Cavallino Rampante)
famous symbol for Ferrari race team is the Prancing Horse (Italian: Cavallino Rampante) black background shield yellow, which added the initials letters SF (for Scuderia Ferrari), and three strips of green lines, white and red (the Italian national flag colors). While the symbols used in the road car Ferrari Prancing Horse emblem is mounted on the nose of the car and on some models also emblem attached on both sides of the car.
Origins uses the Prancing Horse symbols began when Enzo Ferrari won a rally event held in Ravenna, Italy . After he finished the rally event met the Countess Paolina, mother of Count Francesco Baracca, a famous Italian pilot who was also the hero of World War I. Count Francesco Baracca known to always put a picture of the Prancing Horse in the fuselage. In short, the Countess Paolina then asked Enzo Ferrari Prancing Horse to put a picture on every car Ferrari to bring luck.
Enzo then redesign the Prancing Horse image that will be used in every car Ferrari. The results of the design is a bit different from the picture Prancing Horse Count version where it changes the color of the horse from red to black (as an homage to the Count who died in a dogfight) and change the direction of the tail wagging the horse to be facing up. Enzo also added a yellow background color behind the picture Prancing Horse as a tribute to his hometown of Modena, who also wore the same color in the symbol of the city.
Ferrari Prancing Horse started to use the emblem as the official symbol of the company in 1929. Prancing Horse emblem could also be used by the Ferrari racing team while they are still under the auspices of the manufacturer Alfa Romeo in 1932.
however, the Prancing Horse motif image is already long existed as a similar motif can be found on ancient coins Rowawi royal relics of the past. That's why Ferrari is not the only user picture Prancing Horse. City of Stuttgart in Germany is also using the image as a symbol of the Prancing Horse. Stuttgart itself there are two famous automobile manufacturer headquartered there, the Mercedes-Benz and Porsche. Two of these manufacturers is the main rival Ferrari and Alfa Romeo racing event in the 1930's. Stuttgart city name comes from the old German word, Stutengarten , which means stallion, and if translated into Italian into Scuderia . For the record, Porsche also adopted the symbol of the horse as a symbol of the city of Stuttgart jingkraknya perusahaannnya. Two other companies that also use the same symbol is: Avanti (corporate retail fuel Austria), and the Iron Horse Bicycles (bicycle manufacturer from the U.S.).
Fabio Taglioni, a Ducati motorcycle racer from Italy, also had to wear the Prancing Horse emblem on a bike bike.Tagliano use a symbol because his father was one of the Italian pilots in World War I, although not a squadron of the Count Francesco Baracca. But after racer era is over, Ducati, which may have agreed with Ferrari, was no longer wearing the Prancing Horse emblem on their bikes.
Now, prancing horse emblem and the phrase Cavallino Rampante (The Prancing Horse / Ferrari) has been patented by Ferrari despite several other companies that use symbols and names are almost the same