Rosso corsa

Rosso corsa
 
1938 Alfa Romeo 8C 2900 MM
Common connotations
Italian motor racing, Ferrari
About these coordinates     Color coordinates
Hex triplet#D40000
sRGBB (r, g, b)(212, 0, 0)
HSV (h, s, v)(0°, 100%, 83%)
CIELChuv (L, C, h)(44, 149, 12°)
SourceColorHexa[1]
ISCC–NBS descriptorVivid red
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)

Rosso corsa is the red international motor racing colour of cars entered by teams from Italy.[2]

Since the 1920s Italian race cars of Alfa Romeo, Maserati, Lancia, and later Ferrari and Abarth have been painted in rosso corsa ("racing red"). This was the customary national racing colour of Italy as recommended between the world wars by the organisations that later became the FIA. In that scheme of international auto racing colours, German cars were white or silver (Silver Arrows), French cars were blue (Bleu de France), British cars were green (British racing green), etc.

  1. ^ "Rosso corsa / #d40000 hex color". ColorHexa. Retrieved 2022-08-25.
  2. ^ Bristow 2013, p. 7.