Ferrari will mark 70 years in the American market by incorporating two different shades of blue onto their fabled red livery during the Miami Grand Prix; Azzurro La Plata (Argentina’s national racing colours), which was used for Ferrari’s racing suits until 1974, after which the famous red suits came into force, and Azzurro Dino (Named after Enzo’s firstborn son), a deeper shade of blue that was worn by employees at Maranello.

Of course, there’s the famous tale of Ferrari racing in blue and white liveries during the last 2 races of the 1964 season, as old man Enzo Ferrari was furious about the FIA and the ACI (The Italian governing) refusing to homologate Ferrari’s mid-engined 250 LM for Group 3 GT racing, so Enzo surrendered the Scuderia’s racing license after the Italian Grand Prix at Monza, thus the works Ferrari 158s of John Surtees and Lorenzo Bandini were entered by Luigi Chinetti’s North American Racing Team (NART), and were painted in the US national racing colours of blue and white, instead of Italy’s fabled Rosso corsa.

Funnily enough, NART later entered a prototype 250 LM at Le Mans in 1965 and claimed the overall victory of the 24-Hour Race, in what was Ferrari’s last overall win at Le Mans until 2023.

That would make them memorable enough, but the blue Ferrari’s place in history was sealed when Surtees finished 2nd in both the US Grand Prix at Watkins Glen and the Mexican Grand Prix in Mexico City, enabling him to win the ’64 World Championship by 1 point from Graham Hill’s Lotus, making Surtees the only driver to win a premier class motorcycle World Championship and the Formula 1 World Championship – A World Champion on two wheels and four wheels.

Thus, the Miami Grand Prix marks the first time in the history of Grand Prix racing that THE Scuderia Ferrari will have a (slightly) blue livery for a Grand Prix, and the first time since Mexico 1964 that a Ferrari will feature blue on a livery.

Or so we thought…