50 free Ferrari trivia questions with answers — sports quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
This Ferrari trivia quiz covers the Italian marque that turned a racing team into the world's strongest brand. The easy questions cover the founder, the town where the cars are built, the logo, the colour and the sport the company has never stopped competing in. From there the quiz moves through the history: Enzo's years driving for Alfa Romeo, the Scuderia of 1929, the wartime name Auto Avio Costruzioni, the 125 S and its V12, the first Le Mans win, the Ford talks that collapsed and the Fiat deal that followed. The hard end covers Francesco Baracca's horse, the yellow of Modena, the 1964 title won in American colours, the Dino and the move to mid engines, the Big Five supercars, the 250 GTO lawsuits, Montezemolo's 23 years, the Schumacher streak, the 1000th Grand Prix, the 499P's Le Mans comeback, the Purosangue SUV, Fiorano, the Driver Academy, cryptocurrency payments and the world's fastest roller coaster. Every answer was checked against encyclopaedia entries on Ferrari, Scuderia Ferrari and Enzo Ferrari before publishing, and the supporting sentence is stored with each question. Our Formula 1, Michael Schumacher and cars quizzes are natural next stops.
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Q 01In which year was the Ferrari company founded?
1939
The founder had been a racing driver and salesman for Alfa Romeo before setting up on his own; the first car followed in 1940.
Q 02In which Italian town is Ferrari based?
Maranello
The factory moved there in 1943 to escape Allied bombing raids, and was bombed twice anyway.
Q 03What animal appears on the Ferrari badge?
A prancing horse
The Cavallino Rampante was borrowed from the aircraft of the First World War flying ace Francesco Baracca.
Q 04Whose family suggested that the founder adopt their late son's aircraft emblem as a good-luck charm?
Francesco Baracca's
Enzo said the flying ace's mother made the suggestion after his 1923 victory in Ravenna.
Q 05Why is the background of the Ferrari badge yellow?
It is the colour of the founder's home town
The horse first appeared on the team's Alfa Romeo 8C in 1932, on a canary yellow ground.
Q 06What is the Italian name for the racing red associated with Ferrari?
Rosso corsa
It was once the required colour of all Italian racing cars, and Ferrari kept it after the rules changed.
Q 07In which year was Scuderia Ferrari founded, originally to race Alfa Romeos?
1929
That is a decade before the car company itself; the team won 144 of its 225 races before it was absorbed by Alfa in 1937.
Q 08What does the Italian word 'scuderia' mean?
A stable for racing horses
The term is applied to Italian motor racing teams generally, but Ferrari's is the most famous.
Q 09What company did Enzo Ferrari set up when a non-compete clause barred him from using his own name?
Auto Avio Costruzioni
It built a single car, the 815, and made aircraft engines and machine tools during the war.
Q 10What was the first car to carry the Ferrari name, in 1947?
125 S
Only two were made; its V12 engine went on to power many later Ferraris.
Q 11What engine layout powered the first Ferrari and every road-going Ferrari until the late 1960s?
A front-mounted V12
The 1967 Dino broke the pattern as the first mass-produced mid-engined Ferrari road car.
Q 12Which American company tried to buy Ferrari in 1963, only for the founder to walk away from the deal?
Ford
He withdrew when he realised the buyer would not leave him in independent control of racing; the offer was $18 million.
Q 13Which Italian company bought 50 percent of Ferrari in 1969?
Fiat
Its stake rose to 90 percent when the founder died in 1988.
Q 21Where did Ferrari win its first Formula One world championship race, in 1951?
The British Grand Prix
Between 1952 and 1964 the team took six drivers' titles with Ascari, Fangio, Hawthorn, Hill and Surtees.
Q 22In what colours did John Surtees win the 1964 title for Ferrari, during a dispute with the FIA?
American blue and white
Enzo had moved his racing assets to the North American Racing Team in protest at homologation rules.
Q 23Which driver won Ferrari's drivers' titles of 1975 and 1977?
Niki Lauda
Jody Scheckter added another in 1979 before a long drought.
Q 14What was the last car the founder personally approved before his death in 1988?
The F40
It built on the flagship-supercar idea first tried four years earlier.
Q 15Which chairman ran Ferrari for 23 years from 1991 and hired Michael Schumacher and Jean Todt?
Luca di Montezemolo
He raised road-car profitability nearly tenfold and oversaw the F50, Enzo and LaFerrari.
Q 16How many F1 Constructors' Championships, a record, had Ferrari won by the end of 2025?
16
The most recent came in 2008; by then the team also held the record of 15 drivers' titles.
Q 17Which driver won the 2007 Formula One drivers' title with Ferrari?
Kimi Raikkonen
Ferrari added constructors' titles in 2007 and 2008, then went without either title through the 2025 season.
Q 18How many consecutive drivers' titles did Michael Schumacher win for Ferrari?
5
They ran from 2000 to 2004, alongside six straight constructors' titles from 1999.
Q 19How many Grands Prix did Schumacher win for Ferrari?
72
He drove for the team from 1996 until his first retirement in 2006.
Q 20Which 2020 race marked Ferrari's 1,000th Formula One world championship start?
The Tuscan GP at Mugello
Ferrari is the only team to have competed in every world championship season since 1950.
Q 24What are Ferrari's famously passionate fans known as?
Tifosi
Their home race is the Italian Grand Prix at Monza.
Q 25Which manufacturer broke Ferrari's run of six straight Le Mans wins in 1966?
Ford
Ferrari withdrew from sports car racing as a works team in 1973.
Q 26With which prototype did Ferrari return to win Le Mans in 2023, its first victory there in 58 years?
499P
One car was numbered 50 to mark the fifty years since a works Ferrari last raced in endurance events; it won again in 2024.
Q 27Which 1967 model was Ferrari's first mass-produced mid-engined road car?
Dino 206 GT
It presaged the company's full embrace of mid engines and V6 and V8 power in the 1970s and 1980s.
Q 28Which 1984 car is generally considered the first of Ferrari's flagship supercars?
288 GTO
The line runs on through four more cars to the F80.
Q 29What was Ferrari's sixth flagship supercar, unveiled after the LaFerrari?
F80
Before it appeared, the earlier cars were commonly known by a collective nickname.
Q 30What was Ferrari's first series-production plug-in hybrid road car?
SF90 Stradale
The company showed the chassis of its first fully electric car, the Elettrica, in October 2025.