{"id":8005,"date":"2023-06-15T09:50:47","date_gmt":"2023-06-15T09:50:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/taziomagazine.com\/?p=8005"},"modified":"2023-06-15T10:01:50","modified_gmt":"2023-06-15T10:01:50","slug":"those-yellow-stripes-on-the-ferrari-499p-explained","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/taziomagazine.com\/?p=8005","title":{"rendered":"Those yellow stripes on the Ferrari 499P explained"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Did you notice the yellow stripes on the Ferrari 499P that won the Le Mans 24 Hours last weekend? These are a reference to the Ferrari 312PB that raced at Le Mans in 1973. Jacky Ickx tells the story of these stripes.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The centenary edition of the Le Mans 24 Hours was one for the history books. All the big manufacturers found their cars at the front of the race at some point. Rain rendered all strategic plans useless at different points in the race, making it clear that everyone could be a winner, as long as they stayed in the race. Remember that the #51 was dangling in the air on the hook of a crane at one point in the night, seldom a good sign if victory is your aim.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Ferrari 499P. Photo Ferrari<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

First-time winner<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

By winning Le Mans on their first time back in the prototype category in thirty years, Ferrari and AF Corse wrote history. In an official capacity, that is to say. The Ferrari 333SP was never entered by a works-sanctioned team. The Ferrari 499P, for the occasion, wore yellow stripes that were a direct reference to the #15 Ferrari 312PB Jacky Ickx and Brian Redman raced at Le Mans in 1973. The other two PBs had green and blue stripes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Ferrari 312PB at Spa 1000 Km in 1973. Photo Ferrari<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The Ferraris were fast and challenging Matra for the lead, but Ickx\u2019 312PB would see all chances of victory slip away when at 90 minuted from the end, the engine failed. Arturo Merzario and Carlos Pace\u2019s \u2018Sefac Ferrari<\/a>\u2019 \u2013 with green stripes \u2013 would finish second, almost six laps down on the winning Matra of Pescarolo \u2013 Larrousse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Photo IG Jacky Ickx<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Belgian colours<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

After this year\u2019s race, Jacky Ickx explained on his Instagram page the origin of the yellow stripes. \u201cEnzo Ferrari offered me to have yellow stripes on the car. Mixed with the red body and the black seat and roll cage, it allowed me to display the Belgian colours on the track.\u201d The yellow of course also references to the famous yellow \u2013 Belgium\u2019s national racing colours \u2013 as seen on the Ecurie Francorchamps and Ecurie Nationale Belge Ferraris that were entered in the fifties, sixties and seventies through Belgian importer Jacques Swaters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That\u2019s a lot of history in some simple yellow stripes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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