Rosso corsa

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Rosso corsa is the

In the Peking to Paris race of 1907, the first to arrive in Paris was Prince Scipione Borghese, an Italian aristocrat. He was accompanied by Luigi Barzini, a journalist who worked for The Daily Telegraph, and a valet, Ettore Guizzardi, who acted as his mechanic and traveled with a supply of Lanson champagne. The prince was so confident of winning that he took a detour of several hundred miles from Moscow to St Petersburg for a dinner in honour of the team, and afterwards headed back to Moscow and rejoined the race. Their chief rival was Charles Goddard, a fairground worker and con artist who, until he learned of the race from a scrap of newspaper he found blowing in the wind, had never sat in a motor car and was arrested for fraud as he approached the finish line.

Goddard, who came second, lacked the resources of Borghese and had to beg fellow competitors for fuel. In a desperate attempt to catch up, he set an endurance record for non-stop driving for 24 hours. The prince's prize was simply a magnum of Mumm champagne, and the red colour of his 1907 Itala car was adopted by Italy as its racing colour in his honour.^[3][4]

In

Italian motorcycle company Ducati is also features this color as one of their main colors both in its racing motorcycles such as the Ducati Desmosedici^[6] and in its road bikes such as the Ducati Panigale V2.^[7]

Red cars are also traditional in Alfa Romeo and Ferrari car running in other motorsport championships, such as

• 
  1925 Itala Tipo 11
• 
  Maserati A6GCS
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  Ferrari 312 at 1966 German GP
• 
  1977 World Sportscar Championship

  winner
• 
  2015 Formula One season
• 
  Ferrari Supercars at the Quail
• 
  Palm One Ferrari 360 Challenge Stradale
• 
  Ferrari California, the first Ferrari to feature a metal-folding roof.
• 
  2008 MotoGP season

See also

• List of colours
• List of international auto racing colors

Notes

References

• Ludvigsen, Karl (2008). Italian Racing Red: Drivers, Cars and Triumphs of Italian Motor Racing Racing Colours. Ian Allan Publishers.
  ISBN 9780711033313
  .