Rosso corsa

Rosso corsa (lit. "racing red" in Italian) is the red international motor racing colour of cars entered by teams from Italy. 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. Although it has never been officially codified, there is general consensus that it corresponds to Pantone 185 C.