Since its debut in 1950, Ferrari has become a byword for
Formula One. For many, Ferrari and
Formula One racing have become inseparable, being the only team to have competed in every season since the world championship began.
Engine supply Ferrari produces engines for its own
Formula One cars and has supplied engines to other teams. Ferrari has previously supplied engines to
Minardi (1991),
Scuderia Italia (1992–1993),
Sauber (1997–2005 with engines badged as
Petronas, and 2010–2025),
Prost (2001, badged
Acer),
Red Bull Racing (2006),
Spyker (2007),
Scuderia Toro Rosso (2007–2013, 2016),
Force India (2008), and
Marussia (2014–2015). For the
2026 season, Ferrari supplies the
Haas F1 Team and
Cadillac. In December 2024, Ferrari announced that the forthcoming Cadillac Formula One team had signed a multi-year deal to use their engines and gearboxes from 2026 onwards, until GM PPU develops an F1-ready power unit.
Relationship with governing body Ferrari did not enter the first-ever race of the championship, the
1950 British Grand Prix, due to a dispute with the organisers over "start money". In the 1960s, Ferrari withdrew from several races in strike actions. In 1987, Ferrari considered abandoning Formula One for the American IndyCar series. This threat was used as a bargaining tool with the
Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA), and Enzo Ferrari offered to cancel the IndyCar Project and commit to Formula One on the condition that the technical regulations were not changed to exclude V12 engines. The FIA agreed to this, and the IndyCar project was shelved, although a car, the
Ferrari 637, had already been constructed. In 2009, it had emerged that Ferrari had an FIA-sanctioned veto on the technical regulations.
Team orders controversies Team orders have proven controversial at several points in Ferrari's history. At the
1982 San Marino Grand Prix, the two Ferraris were leading with
Gilles Villeneuve ahead of
Didier Pironi. The team showed the slow sign to its drivers, and, as per a pre-race agreement, the driver leading at that point was expected to take the win of the Grand Prix. Villeneuve slowed and expected that Pironi would follow; the latter did not and instead passed Villeneuve. Villeneuve was angered by what he saw as a betrayal by his teammate and, at one point, had even refused to go onto the podium. This feud is often considered to have been a contributory factor to his fatal accident in qualifying at the next race, the
1982 Belgian Grand Prix. At the
2002 Austrian Grand Prix, after having started from pole position and leading the first 70 laps,
Rubens Barrichello was instructed to let Ferrari teammate
Michael Schumacher pass him, a move that proved to be unpopular among many Formula One fans and the
FIA, the sport's governing body. Following this incident and others in which team orders were used, such as
McLaren's use of them at the
1997 European Grand Prix and at the
1998 Australian Grand Prix, and
Jordan Grand Prix's at the
1998 Belgian Grand Prix, team orders in Formula One were officially banned ahead of the season. On lap 49 of the
2010 German Grand Prix,
Fernando Alonso went past
Felipe Massa for the race lead, after Ferrari had informed Massa that Alonso was "faster than him". This communication has widely been interpreted as a team order from Ferrari. Alonso won the race, with Massa finishing second and
Sebastian Vettel taking the final place on the podium. Ferrari were fined the maximum penalty available to the stewards, $100,000, for breach of regulations and for "bringing the sport into disrepute" as per "Article 151c' of the
International Sporting Code". Ferrari said they would not contest the fine. The team were referred to the
FIA World Motor Sport Council, where they upheld the stewards' view but did not take any further action. The ban on team orders was subsequently lifted for the season.
Racing colours In keeping with their Italian roots, the Ferrari
works team has always kept a red colour in the tradition of
rosso corsa, the
national racing colour of Italy, except for last two races in the season (the
1964 United States Grand Prix and
1964 Mexican Grand Prix) when
Enzo Ferrari let his cars be entered by the
NART team in American national racing colours (white with blue lengthwise "
Cunningham racing stripes") to protest against Italian racing authorities. However, Ferrari cars entered by non-Italian
privateer teams wore their respective
national racing colours until the
1961 Belgian Grand Prix when Belgian driver
Olivier Gendebien privately entered a Ferrari car painted in the
Belgian racing yellow colour, scoring 4th behind three other Ferrari cars painted in red as they were entered by the Scuderia Ferrari works team itself, and driven by
US drivers
Phil Hill and
Richie Ginther as well as
German Wolfgang von Trips. Ferrari won the
1964 World championship with
John Surtees by competing the last two races (the
United States Grand Prix and
Mexican Grand Prix) in
Ferrari 158 cars painted white with blue lengthwise "
Cunningham racing stripes" -
the national colours of the teams licensed in the United States- as these were entered not by the Italian works team themselves but by the American
NART team. This was done as a protest against the agreement between Ferrari and the Italian Racing Authorities regarding their planned mid-engined Ferrari race car. Since Ferrari cars entered in and seasons by the NART team and at the
1966 Italian Grand Prix by the British
privateer team Reg Parnell kept wearing the red colour, the 1964 Mexican Grand Prix was the last time Ferrari cars wore other than the traditional red colour in Formula One.
Formula One team sponsorship 's
F2005 during the
2005 German Grand Prix, showing sponsorship such as from Philip Morris, Shell, Vodafone, Bridgestone and AMD The Ferrari Formula One team was resistant to the
commercial sponsorship for many years and it was not until that the cars began to feature the logo of the
Fiat group (which had been the owners of the Ferrari company since ). Until the 1980s, the only other companies whose logos appeared on Ferrari's Formula One cars were technical partners, such as
Magneti Marelli,
Brembo, and
Agip. At the end of the season,
Philip Morris International through its brand
Marlboro withdrew its sponsorship agreement with
McLaren after 22 years (since the season) to become the title sponsor of Ferrari, resulting to the change of the official team's name to
Scuderia Ferrari Marlboro from the beginning of the season until the
2011 European Grand Prix. Marlboro had already been Ferrari's minor sponsor since the season and increased to the team's major sponsorship in the season. Alongside
Jordan Grand Prix, the team was required to run non-tobacco liveries in
United States Grand Prix in the 2000s due to United States
Tobacco Master Settlement Agreement requirements, as Phillip Morris was sponsoring
Team Penske at the time; a clause in the settlement allowed each tobacco company to sponsor only one sporting entity. In September 2005, Ferrari signed an extension of the arrangement until 2011 at a time when advertising of tobacco sponsorship had become illegal in the European Union, and other major teams had withdrawn from relationships with tobacco companies (e.g. McLaren had ended its eight-year relationship with
West). In reporting the deal,
F1 Racing magazine judged it to be a black day for the sport, putting non-tobacco funded teams at a disadvantage and discouraging other brands from entering a sport still associated with tobacco. The magazine estimated that between 2005 and 2011, Ferrari received $1 billion from the agreement. The last time Ferrari ran explicit tobacco sponsorship on the car was at the
2007 Chinese Grand Prix, with barcodes and other subliminal markers used afterwards. , driven by
Charles Leclerc, with Mission Winnow branding at the
2019 Chinese Grand Prix On 8 July 2011, it was announced that the
Marlboro section of its official team name had been removed from the
2011 British Grand Prix onwards, following complaints from sponsorship regulators. As a consequence, the official team's name was reverted to Scuderia Ferrari. At the
2018 Japanese Grand Prix, Ferrari added Philip Morris International's new Mission Winnow project logos to the car and team clothing. Although Mission Winnow is described as a non-tobacco brand "dedicated to science, technology and innovation", commentators such as
The Guardian Richard Williams have noted that the logos incorporate elements whose shapes mimic the iconic Marlboro cigarette packet design. In 2019, Mission Winnow became the team's title sponsor, and the team originally entered the season as Scuderia Ferrari Mission Winnow. Mission Winnow was dropped from team name before the season opener, while the car's Mission Winnow logos were replaced by a special 90th anniversary logo, after Australian authorities had launched an investigation into whether the initiative introduced by Philip Morris contravened laws banning tobacco advertising. Mission Winnow was restored for the second race of the season, and was used until the Monaco Grand Prix. The Mission Winnow logos were again replaced by the 90th anniversary logos for the Canadian until the Russian Grand Prix. At the end of the season, the Mission Winnow sponsorship was dropped to promote new technologies. On 10 September 2009, Ferrari announced that it would be sponsored by
Santander from 2010 on a five-year contract. The contract was subsequently extended to end in late 2017. After a four-year break,
Santander and Ferrari renewed their partnership on 21 December 2021 with a multi-year contract. As part of the deal with
Acer, Acer was allowed to sell Ferrari-badged laptops. On the other hand, semiconductor chip maker
AMD, announced in early 2009 that it had decided to drop its sponsorship of the team and was waiting for its contract to expire after its former vice-president/sales executive (who was an avid fan of motorsports) had left the company. AMD returned to sponsor the team in 2018. On 3 July 2014, Ferrari announced a two-year sponsorship agreement with the United States–based
Haas Automation tool company, which transferred into a powertrain deal in 2016 when the
Haas F1 Team entered the sport. On 14 April 2018,
AMD announced a multi-year sponsorship with Scuderia Ferrari on the occasion of the Chinese Grand Prix held on the Shanghai Circuit. The AMD logo was visible on the nose of the
Ferrari SF71H. This deal was terminated following the
2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine. The official suppliers of Ferrari for the 2021 season included
Pirelli,
Puma, Radiobook, Experis-Veritaaq,
SKF,
Magneti Marelli,
NGK,
Brembo,
Riedel Communications,
VistaJet, and
Iveco. On 24 April 2024, the team announced a multi-year title partnership with
HP Inc., renaming the team (including E-sports and F1 Academy) as Scuderia Ferrari HP from the
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