Ferrari has taken very seriously the idea of ’going blue’ for the Miami Grand Prix and they are not going to be satisfied with dress the pilots of the color of the sky or modifying the livery of their F1 cars to adopt that tone.
Also the two street cars that will be used Carlos Sainz and Charles Leclerc to move around Miami they will join the blue festival (which is completed, coincidence or not, with the debut of a new main sponsor that has that color as its corporate color).
Two Ferrari 296 GTS Azzurro Dino and Azzurro La Plata
The two official pilots of the Scuderia They had the opportunity to work already in the month of January with the chief designer of Ferrari, Flavio Manzoni and Silvia Cavallaroresponsible for colors of the Italian brand, in the configuration of the two 296 GTS who will accompany them on the way to the urban circuit of the most famous city in Florida.
There it was already defined that the Spanish would be assigned the unit of color Azzurro Dino (the darkest, last used in Ferrari in 1974) while the Monegasque will drive the Azzurro La Plata (the clearest, which identified the Argentine single-seaters in the 50s). And now the images arrive assembly in Maranello of two units of the convertible plug-in hybrid with that decoration.
The two units of 296 GTS will participate from May 28 in the Cavalcade International, a meeting of Ferrari vehicles that will depart from Nashville and end in Miami on day 1, when they will pass into the hands of the drivers. Both cars will be equipped with the Assetto Fiorano optional package which includes a special decoration (for the nose, roof and rear) in addition to other mechanical elements (adjustable shock absorbers Multimaticcarbon fiber for the nose and door panels, specific tires and lighter rear windows).
He Ferrari 296 GTS It is one of the latest additions to the Italian manufacturer’s catalog. It’s about the convertible version of the 296 GTBa two-seater plug-in hybrid 830 horseswith features worthy of a sports car with the cavallino shield: 2.9 seconds for 0-100 and one maximum speed of 330 km/h.
This Ferrari color scheme for this Formula 1 Grand Prix aims to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the brand’s presence in the US. and to do so he will wink at some of his past episodes in Formula 1 in which his cars (or the team members) wore blue colors.
