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[bikr37]

Hi all,
does anyone know of a paint code that comes close to the ferrari f1 'red'? Seems to me from what I have seen on tv that it is a little 'orangey'.
Thanks,
Bob

[Jack Rabbit]

Can I ask what you're painting?

[BorderReiver]

Originally posted by bikr37
Hi all,
does anyone know of a paint code that comes close to the ferrari f1 'red'? Seems to me from what I have seen on tv that it is a little 'orangey'.
Thanks,
Bob

Of you actually go to a track it looks pinky. It's amazing how different colours look on a TV screen. At the moment it painted to look Marlboro Red on TV.

Ferrari's should be Scarlet dammit!

[alesifan46]

Originally posted by bikr37
Hi all,
does anyone know of a paint code that comes close to the ferrari f1 'red'? Seems to me from what I have seen on tv that it is a little 'orangey'.
Thanks,
Bob

Well it's quite simple...just find a buddy that owns a 2003 Ferrari Challenge Stradale F1

cuz it is supposed to be the EXACT same color as the race ready Ferrari!! ..from the page I got this info from..it says.."out of range" paint color??? probably a SECRET !!..sorry that's as close as I could get!!

[Witt]

BorderReiver said it, go buy a pack of Marlboros, and there's your Ferrari red.

[boyRacer]

PPG paint codes

[red300zx99]

I remember hearing some interesting things about Ferrari Red, first was that there was base base coat of pink, I doubt theres a base coat on their F1 cars though, and second that the Red on the F1 car isn't Ferrari red at all, but a few shades off in order to correct the problem that the color looks different when viewed on TV

[MrSlow]

I seem to remember that Jaguar had to change the colors of the cars so they looked right on TV. There is also a interesting thread in the TNF about the JPS Lotus colors, how the "gold" parts did not look like gold when they where in gold, instead they made it beige. It looked like **** live, but great on pictures. So I guess you have to decide if you want the color that appear on TV, or the real color. If it is the TV version, it seem to be the RGB 255, 2, 2. There is conversion tables on the net.

[siggers]

Originally posted by MrSlow
I seem to remember that Jaguar had to change the colors of the cars so they looked right on TV. There is also a interesting thread in the TNF about the JPS Lotus colors, how the "gold" parts did not look like gold when they where in gold, instead they made it beige. It looked like **** live, but great on pictures. So I guess you have to decide if you want the color that appear on TV, or the real color. If it is the TV version, it seem to be the RGB 255, 2, 2. There is conversion tables on the net.

Just to add to the confusion: remember that RGB 255, 2, 2 (#FF0202) is not a web-save colour, and if used on the web can look very different on different browsers, operating systems, devices ...

The nearest web-safe colour is 255, 0, 0 or #FF0000 - looks much better (minus the orange!) anyway. Well, at least I think so.

[Barry Boor]

As a slot-car home-modeller, I have to use what is available comercially. I buy Halford's spray cans and all I can say is that I think Volkswagen Mars Red is the nearest I have seen to the current Ferrari colour.

[BuonoBruttoCattivo]

Buy, or order on the net, Tamiya TS49 Bright Red synthetic lacquer spray paint.
Use a white base primer to bring out the brightness.

Another close call is 70% red, 30% orange of regualr paint.

Also, BBRmodels.it sell perfect Rosso Scuderia enamels. I don't know the ccode though.

Don't but a Marlboro pack, it has nothing to do with Rosso Scuderia.

[KinetiK]

My friend has a small amount of the official Marlboro Penske paint given to him by a PPG employee. It's virtually neon, having seen it in person it's terribly bright but beautiful all the same. I wonder if thats the same colour as the Ferrari red? I assume that it's the same colour as the McLarens in Marlboro livery...

[BuonoBruttoCattivo]

Originally posted by KinetiK
I wonder if thats the same colour as the Ferrari red?

No.
The Marlboro Penske/McLaren red is fluoresecent red...
Ferrari's is bright red, totally unrelated.

[RTH]

The Marlboro Mc Larens are restored by the factory in Glasurit 'Daylight Red'

[JtP]

Originally posted by BorderReiver


Of you actually go to a track it looks pinky. It's amazing how different colours look on a TV screen. At the moment it painted to look Marlboro Red on TV.

Ferrari's should be Scarlet dammit!

Ferraris were painted Marlboro red in the mid 90s, but reverted to their normal red after one season. Nigel Roebuck had a good whinge about it in his column at the time and iirc it was 95.

[BorderReiver]

Originally posted by JtP


Ferraris were painted Marlboro red in the mid 90s, but reverted to their normal red after one season. Nigel Roebuck had a good whinge about it in his column at the time and iirc it was 95.

There is no way that the current ferrari is the same red (and it isn't red, Ferrari's are deep Scarlet) as the Ferrari's from the 50's to the Marlboro era. . .

[JtP]

Originally posted by BorderReiver


There is no way that the current ferrari is the same red (and it isn't red, Ferrari's are deep Scarlet) as the Ferrari's from the 50's to the Marlboro era. . .

Reds are notoriously difficult to match as anyone who owned a mid to late 70s Tartan red Vauxhall knows. They also suffer badly from metameric matches, that is shade changes from different lights. So colour shade changes over years with different pigments and paint types would not be unusual. Yellows suffer badly in the paint mix stakes as well. Its a bit like trying to match a Japanese built Nissan metalic, along the lines of "which day was your car painted sir?"

[bikr37]

thanks everyone for your inputs. I am painting my bicycle frame and thought it would be a cool color. I think I will have my painter experiment a bit to get the look that I want.
Bob

[Jack Rabbit]

That is cool. I bought a carbon fiber bike and painted it the Renault colors. No cigarette liveries though...If you know where to get some weather proof stickers f1 stickers, let me (and juan) know.

--the f1 uber-geek.

[Megatron]

History aside, I think the cars look better than the old "real" Ferrari red if you place one if front of the other.

Knowing history, I hate the color with a passion.

Bit of a contridiction there, but thats how I fell about it.

It would be like someone correcting the Leaning Tower. It LOOKS better but it botches history.

[Zeus]

For their street cars, they call the brighter red Rosso Scuderia, while the traditional red is Rosso Corse. IMHO, RS was introduced in an effort to legitimize the Marlboro red on the race car. The color can be found on a few Enzos and 360 Challenge Stradales.

[Megatron]

The story is that Marlboro had the guts to ask for McLaren like Paint scheme. They said no no but agreed to change the paint.

I personally miss seeing the Ferrari crewmen in Yellow Agip colors almost as much as the paint. Now they all look like walking cigarette packs.

I liked the old days when the drivers name was put on the Marlboro sign. "N. Mansell" "A. Prost" "M. Schumacher".

I remember when the Ferrari 360 FoW in Grand Am was painted in real Ferrari red. Then they switced to "F1 red" with a newer 360. Again it looked better as far as comparision but it just destroyed the feeling of the car.

[AP1]

Originally posted by BorderReiver


Of you actually go to a track it looks pinky. It's amazing how different colours look on a TV screen. At the moment it painted to look Marlboro Red on TV.

Ferrari's should be Scarlet dammit!

I went to Imola this year and the colour of Ferrari cars is perfectly RED !!! (even more red than the fire of Mercedes engines )