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113-615: The Grand American Road Racing Association was established in 1999 and was located in Daytona Beach, Florida , near the homes of NASCAR , International Speedway Corporation (ISC), and Daytona International Speedway . Although originated by some members of the NASCAR community, Grand-Am centers on different styles of racing including sports car racing and touring car racing on road racing circuits throughout North America. On September 4, 2008, NASCAR Holdings announced their buyout of

226-440: A City commission which consists of seven members who serve four-year, staggered terms. Six are elected by district, the mayor is elected citywide. The city commission establishes ordinances and policies for the city. It also reviews and approves the city budget annually. The commission appoints a city manager , who carries out the will of the commission and handles day-to-day business. The United States Postal Service operates

339-538: A Ferrari 296 GT3 run by Frikadelli Racing won the 24 Hours of Nürburgring . At the 2024 24 Hours of Le Mans , Ferrari achieved its eleventh victory, recording consecutive victories at Le Mans for the first time since 1965 with the No. 50 499P driven by Antonio Fuoco , Miguel Molina and Nicklas Nielsen . While the Ferrari No. 51 499P driven by Alessandro Pier Guidi , James Calado , and Antonio Giovinazzi , winner of

452-531: A humid subtropical climate ( Köppen climate classification Cfa ), which is typical of the Gulf and South Atlantic states. As is typical of much of Florida, there are two seasons in Daytona Beach; the warmer, wetter season (late May through October) and the cooler and drier season (November through April). In summer, temperatures are relatively stable and there is an average of only 8 days annually with

565-459: A Grand Prix World Championship had been discussed before the war; it took several years afterwards for the series to become active. Meanwhile, Ferrari rebuilt his works in Maranello and constructed the 12-cylinder, 1.5 L Tipo 125 , which competed at several non-championship Grands Prix. The car made its debut at the 1948 Italian Grand Prix with Raymond Sommer and achieved its first win at

678-796: A Riley Daytona Prototype and the McLaren MP4-12C , mirroring the Rolex series. Grand-Am initially sanctioned the North American arm of the Formula Renault series under the 2.0 Litre formula. However the series was later reorganized and came under the control of the National Auto Sport Association (NASA) where it currently runs under the Formula TR name. The Ford Racing Mustang Challenge for

791-404: A bigger level of media coverage to the sport. Ferrari was able to prevail in the 1964 and 1965 seasons both in the championship and at the 24 Hours of Le Mans but had to concede Ford the victory in the 1966 championship and Le Mans race, when the 7-litre GT40 had a dominant season. In 1967, the last where Ford and Ferrari could battle on the tarmac, saw Ferrari taking the championship but losing at

904-669: A custom-built class built specifically for the Rolex Series. These cost-effective race cars offer a relatively economical racing environment in which technology is carefully controlled to ensure close racing and approximate parity between different chassis and engines. For the 2012 season, the Rolex series rolled out Gen-III prototypes with new bodies, engines and chassis. These new chassis were designed to keep costs low while also creating body shapes with more brand characteristics. The new chassis were headlined by Corvette and new Ford prototypes. The GT classes were also simplified over

1017-595: A factory effort Ferrari Competizioni GT, in partnership with racing teams, such as AF Corse , Kessel Racing , and Risi Competizione , among others. With factory support, these teams achieved great success in major international GT2 and GTE Pro/GTLM competitions. Starting from this same year, AF Corse won the GT2 manufacturers' title along with the team's title each year it was contested in the FIA GT Championship . It also took two drivers' titles in 2006 and 2008 in

1130-408: A female householder with no husband present, and 51.6% were non-families. Of all households, 39.4% were made up of individuals, and 14.4% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.06 and the average family size was 2.77. In 2000, 17.6% of the population was under the age of 18, 16.6% was from 18 to 24, 25.6% from 25 to 44, 20.5% from 45 to 64, and 19.7%

1243-675: A land grant of 3,000 acres (12 km ) from the Spanish Crown , which had regained Florida from the British after the American Revolutionary War . This land grant encompassed the area that would become Daytona Beach. Williams built a slave-labor-based plantation to grow cotton , rice and sugar cane . His son Samuel Hill Williams would abandon the plantation during the Second Seminole War , when

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1356-596: A major presence in the area include: According to the City's 2019 Comprehensive Annual Financial Report, the top employers in the city are: The Museum of Arts and Sciences is the primary cultural facility for Daytona Beach and Volusia County . Other museums located in the city include the Southeast Museum of Photography and the Halifax Historical Museum . The Museum of Arts and Sciences

1469-528: A maximum at or above 95 °F (35 °C); the last 100 °F (38 °C) reading was seen on August 2, 1999. The Bermuda High pumps hot and unstable tropical air from the Bahamas and Gulf of Mexico, resulting in daily, but brief thundershowers. This results in the months of June through September accounting for a majority of the average annual rainfall of 51.25 in (1,302 mm). In winter, Daytona Beach has weather conditions typical of other cities on

1582-539: A minor league baseball team of the Low-A Southeast , play at Jackie Robinson Ballpark . Established in 1993, the team has six championships. Daytona Beach has over 23 miles (37 km) of public beaches, and more than ten waterfront parks. Cars can be driven on some of the beaches. Notable golf courses include Daytona Beach Golf Course , established in 1922, and LPGA International . Under Daytona Beach's commission-manager form of government, voters elect

1695-489: A post office at 500 Bill France Boulevard in Daytona Beach. The Daytona Beach Armed Forces Reserve Center is home of the Florida Army National Guard 1st Battalion, 265th Air Defense Artillery Regiment , Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, Battery D. Daytona Beach is part of Florida's 6th congressional district . It is part of Florida's 25th and 26th State House of Representatives Districts and

1808-621: A racial entity through assimilation and attrition during the 18th century. The Seminole Indians, descendants of Creek Indians from Georgia and Alabama , frequented the area prior to the Second Seminole War . During the era of British rule of Florida between 1763 and 1783, the King's Road passed through present-day Daytona Beach. The road extended from Saint Augustine , the capital of East Florida , to Andrew Turnbull 's experimental colony in New Smyrna . In 1804 Samuel Williams received

1921-647: A team one and there was not a largely participated world manufacturer title for sportscars until the inception of the FIA World Endurance Championship (WEC). Ferrari cars were raced in a range of classes, such as GT racing by other entrants, but not by the factory Scuderia Ferrari team. In the 1990s, Ferrari returned to sports prototypes as a constructor with the Ferrari 333 SP with success, although Scuderia Ferrari itself never raced this car. From 2006, Ferrari returned to GT car racing with

2034-470: A test track on the same site, the Fiorano Circuit built in 1972, which is used for testing road and race cars. The team is named after its founder Enzo Ferrari . Scuderia is Italian for a stable reserved for racing horses, and is also commonly applied to Italian motor racing teams. The prancing horse was the symbol used on Italian World War I ace Francesco Baracca 's fighter plane. It became

2147-757: A two-year sponsorship agreement with the United States–based Haas Automation tool company, which transferred into a powertrain deal in 2016 when the Haas F1 Team entered the sport. On 14 April 2018, AMD announced a multi-year sponsorship with Scuderia Ferrari on the occasion of the Chinese Grand Prix held on the Shanghai Circuit. The AMD logo was visible on the nose of the Ferrari SF71H . In December 2021,

2260-572: Is a principal city of the Fun Coast region of Florida. Daytona Beach is historically known for its beach, where motorized vehicles are permitted on some hard-packed sand beaches. Motorsports on the beach became popular, and the Daytona Beach and Road Course hosted races for over 50 years, replaced in 1959 by Daytona International Speedway . The city is the headquarters of NASCAR . Daytona Beach hosts large groups of tourists, and notable events include Speedweeks which attracts 200,000 visitors to

2373-746: Is actually a collection of museums and galleries and includes the Klancke Environmental Complex, the Cuban Museum, Root Family Museum featuring one of the largest Coca-Cola collections in the world, the Dow American Gallery and the Bouchelle Center for Decorative Arts which together form what is probably one of the finest collections of furniture and decorative arts in the Southeast . It also includes

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2486-480: Is the racing division of luxury Italian auto manufacturer Ferrari and the racing team that competes in Formula One racing. The team is also known by the nickname " The Prancing Horse " ( Italian : il Cavallino Rampante or simply il Cavallino ), in reference to their logo. It is the oldest surviving and most successful Formula One team , having competed in every world championship since 1950 . The team

2599-420: Is the team's most successful driver. Joining the team in 1996 and driving for them until his first retirement in 2006 , he won five consecutive drivers' titles and 72 Grands Prix for the team. His titles came consecutively between 2000 and 2004 , and the team won consecutive constructors' titles between 1999 and 2004, marking the era as the most successful period in the team's history. The team's drivers for

2712-571: The 1961 Belgian Grand Prix when Belgian driver Olivier Gendebien privately entered a Ferrari car painted in the Belgian racing yellow colour , scoring 4th behind three other Ferrari cars painted in red as they were entered by the Scuderia Ferrari works team itself, and driven by US drivers Phil Hill and Richie Ginther as well as German Wolfgang von Trips . Ferrari won the 1964 World championship with John Surtees by competing

2825-404: The 1974 season) to become the title sponsor of Ferrari, resulting to the change of the official team's name to Scuderia Ferrari Marlboro from the beginning of the 1997 season until the 2011 European Grand Prix . Marlboro had already been Ferrari's minor sponsor since the 1984 season and increased to the team's major sponsorship in the 1993 season. Alongside Jordan Grand Prix , the team

2938-502: The 1998 Belgian Grand Prix , team orders in Formula One were officially banned ahead of the 2003 season. On lap 49 of the 2010 German Grand Prix , Fernando Alonso went past Felipe Massa for the race lead, after Ferrari had informed Massa that Alonso was "faster than him". This communication has widely been interpreted as a team order from Ferrari. Alonso won the race, with Massa finishing second and Sebastian Vettel taking

3051-557: The 2008 Italian Grand Prix , as well as one Ferrari privateer win at the 1961 French Grand Prix . Nine drivers have won the Drivers' Championship while driving for Ferrari, winning a total of fifteen Drivers' Championships. Between 1950 and 1966 , numerous privateer teams entered Ferrari cars in World Championship events. Between them, these teams achieved five podium finishes, including Giancarlo Baghetti 's win at

3164-471: The 2021 season, the Mission Winnow sponsorship was dropped to promote new technologies. On 10 September 2009, Ferrari announced that it would be sponsored by Santander from 2010 on a five-year contract. The contract was subsequently extended to end in late 2017. After a four-year break, Santander and Ferrari renewed their partnership on 21 December 2021 with a multi-year contract. As part of

3277-501: The 2024 season are Charles Leclerc and Carlos Sainz Jr. The latter will be replaced by the seven-time Formula One World Champion, Lewis Hamilton for the 2025 season and beyond. Scuderia Ferrari was founded by Enzo Ferrari in 1929 to enter amateur drivers in various races. Ferrari himself had raced in Costruzioni Meccaniche Nazionali and Alfa Romeo cars before that date. The idea came about on

3390-562: The Alfa Romeo Bimotore , the first car to wear a Ferrari badge on the radiator cowl. Ferrari managed numerous established drivers (notably Tazio Nuvolari , Giuseppe Campari , Achille Varzi , and Louis Chiron ) and several talented rookies (Mario Tadini, Guy Moll , Carlo Maria Pintacuda , and Antonio Brivio ) from his headquarters in Viale Trento e Trieste, Modena, Italy , until 1938, at which point Alfa Romeo made him

3503-548: The Daytona 500 . Other events include the NASCAR Coke Zero Sugar 400 , Daytona Beach Bike Week , Biketoberfest , and the 24 Hours of Daytona endurance race. The area where Daytona Beach is located was once inhabited by the indigenous Timucuan Indians who lived in fortified villages. The Timucuas were nearly exterminated by contact with Europeans through war, enslavement and disease and became extinct as

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3616-517: The Fiat group (which had been the owners of the Ferrari company since 1969 ). Until the 1980s, the only other companies whose logos appeared on Ferrari's Formula One cars were technical partners, such as Magneti Marelli , Brembo , and Agip . At the end of the 1996 season, Philip Morris International through its brand Marlboro withdrew its sponsorship agreement with McLaren after 22 years (since

3729-813: The Florida peninsula . On average, the coolest month is January, with a normal monthly mean temperature of 58.8 °F (14.9 °C). It is the only month where the average high temperature falls below 70.0 °F (21.1 °C). Occasional cold fronts can bring freezes, which from 1991 to 2020 were seen on an average of 3.0 nights annually; however, minima below 25 °F (−4 °C) are very rare, and were last seen on December 28, 2010. Like much of Florida, Daytona Beach often can be very dry in late winter and early spring, and brush fires and water restrictions can be an issue. Official record temperatures range from 15 °F (−9 °C) on January 21, 1985 , up to 102 °F (39 °C) on July 15, 1981, and June 24, 1944;

3842-580: The Formula 2 series in several years, as follows: From the late 1940s to the early 1970s, Ferrari competed in sports car racing with great success, winning the overall World Sportscar Championship (WSC) twelve times. Ferrari cars (including non-works entries) won the Mille Miglia eight times, the Targa Florio seven times, and the 24 Hours of Le Mans nine times. In this span of time, Ferrari

3955-690: The Seminoles burned it to the ground. The area now known as the Daytona Beach Historical District was once the Orange Grove Plantation, a citrus and sugar cane plantation granted to Samuel Williams in 1787. The plantation was situated on the west bank of the tidal channel known as the Halifax River , 12 miles north of Mosquito Inlet . Williams was a British loyalist from North Carolina who fled to

4068-604: The Sports Prototypes class, the team developed the Ferrari P series of cars. Up to the 1964 season, they faced little competition from major manufacturers, as only Porsche stayed in the series albeit with smaller engined cars that were able to be competitive only in selected races where engine power was less relevant and overall lightness was a premium, such as at the Targa Florio or at the Nurburgring. At

4181-565: The TUDOR United SportsCar Championship The series is somewhat comparable to the old Trans Am Series . Grand-Am was the sanctioning body behind the North American arm of the international Ferrari Challenge series. Using identical race-tuned Ferraris, the series originally ran the F355 then switched to the 360 Modenas before switching to new F430s in 2006 and the 458 Italia in 2010. Tied together with

4294-470: The Targa Florio , the Mille Miglia , and the Carrera Panamericana . The team is also known for its passionate support base, known as the tifosi . The Italian Grand Prix at Monza is regarded as the team's home race. As a constructor in Formula One, Ferrari has a record 16 Constructors' Championships . Their most recent Constructors' Championship was won in 2008 . The team also holds

4407-597: The barrier island portion of the city as a blighted area and has targeted it for redevelopment by private developers. This follows the Supreme Court decision of the eminent domain case in Kelo v. City of New London , which upheld the right of municipalities to use eminent domain to take private property for redevelopment by private entities. According to the United States Census Bureau ,

4520-496: The 1920s, it was dubbed "The World's Most Famous Beach". Daytona's wide beach of smooth, compacted sand attracted automobile and motorcycle races beginning in 1902, as pioneers in the industry tested their inventions. It hosted land speed record attempts beginning in 1904, when William K. Vanderbilt set an unofficial record of 92.307 mph (148.554 km/h). Land speed racers from Barney Oldfield to Henry Segrave to Malcolm Campbell would visit Daytona repeatedly and make

4633-524: The 1932 Spa 24 Hours in Belgium on a two-car team of Alfa Romeo 8C 2300 Spiders, which finished first and second. In 1933, Alfa Romeo experienced economic difficulties and withdrew its team from racing. From then, the Scuderia Ferrari became the acting racing team of Alfa Romeo when the factory released to the Scuderia the up to date Monoposto Tipo B racers. In 1935, Enzo Ferrari and Luigi Bazzi built

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4746-459: The 1968 season forced Ferrari out from the championship and in this way the Ferrari vs. Ford battle in endurance racing met its end. The 1970s was the last decade Ferrari entered as a works effort in sports car racing. After an uninspired performance in the 1973 season, Enzo Ferrari stopped all development of sports cars in prototype and grand touring (GT) racing at the end of the year to concentrate on Formula One. This choice paid off and Ferrari

4859-425: The 2021 season included Shell , Ray-Ban , United Parcel Service , Estrella Galicia , Weichai Group , Richard Mille , Mahle GmbH , Amazon Web Services , and Officine Meccaniche Rezzatesi. On 24 April 2024, the team announced a multi-year title partnership with HP Inc. , renaming the team (including E-sports and F1 Academy) as Scuderia Ferrari HP from the 2024 Miami Grand Prix onwards. Ferrari competed in

4972-417: The 23 mi (37 km) beach course famous. Record attempts, including numerous fatal endeavors such as Frank Lockhart ( Stutz Black Hawk , 1928) and Lee Bible ( Triplex Special , 1929), would continue until Campbell's March 7, 1935 effort, which set the record at 276.816 mph (445.492 km/h) and marked the end of Daytona's land speed racing days. On March 8, 1936, the first stock car race

5085-492: The 24 Hours of Le Mans race. This last race was really controversial as the race timing completely disappeared for some hours during nighttime before reappearing with altered results. This and other controversial aspects of the race were recounted by the late Mauro Forghieri , famously quoting a dialogue with Mr Finance, then in charge of organising the Le Mans race. A change of rules denying the participation to prototype cars for

5198-453: The 24 Hours of Le Mans, the 24 Hours of Daytona , and the 12 Hours of Sebring . The 499P was managed by AF Corse and this caused a restructuring of the GT activities of the successful Italian team. At the 2023 24 Hours of Le Mans , Ferrari achieved its first Le Mans victory since 1965 with the No. 51 499P driven by Alessandro Pier Guidi , James Calado , and Antonio Giovinazzi . In the same year,

5311-449: The 6th and 8th State Senate Districts. Florida's 6th congressional district, which extends from the southern Jacksonville suburbs to New Smyrna Beach and includes St. Augustine and Daytona Beach, is currently represented by Republican Michael Waltz . Public primary and secondary education is handled by Volusia County Schools . Daytona Beach has two public traditional high schools, two middle schools and six elementary schools. Some of

5424-759: The American IndyCar series. This threat was used as a bargaining tool with the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA), and Enzo Ferrari offered to cancel the IndyCar Project and commit to Formula One on the condition that the technical regulations were not changed to exclude V12 engines. The FIA agreed to this, and the IndyCar project was shelved, although a car, the Ferrari 637 , had already been constructed. In 2009, it had emerged that Ferrari had an FIA-sanctioned veto on

5537-524: The Bahamas with his family until the Spanish reopened Florida to non-Spanish immigration. After his death in 1810, the plantation was run by his family until it was burned down in 1835. In 1871, Mathias Day Jr. of Mansfield, Ohio, purchased the 3,200-acre tract of the former Orange Grove Plantation. He built a hotel around which the initial section of town arose. In 1872, due to financial troubles, Day lost title to his land; nonetheless, residents decided to name

5650-959: The Carrera Panamericana in Mexico, the 24 Hours of Le Mans in France, the Mille Miglia in Italy, the 24 Hours of Spa in Belgium, the Nürburgring 1000 km in Germany, and the Sicilian Targa Florio. Ferrari launched a large range of sports racers over the next three years. This included the traditional compact Colombo V12 -powered Ferrari 250 MM ; the larger V12 Lampredi -powered 340 MM , 375 MM , 375 Plus , and 410 S ; and Jano -powered 290 MM , 315 S , and 335 S ;

5763-719: The Cici and Hyatt Brown Museum of Art, which houses the largest collection of Florida art in the world. There are also changing exhibitions and a children's science center opened in 2008. Since 1952, the non-profit Daytona Beach Symphony Society has sponsored performances by U.S. and international orchestras, opera and dance companies each season at the Peabody Auditorium . The city attracts over 8 million tourists each year. Special events that draw visitors to Daytona Beach include: During motorcycle events ( Bike Week and Biketoberfest), several hundred thousand bikers from all over

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5876-465: The Daytona 500 and aids in joint investigations of certain crimes. The Volusia County Beach Patrol provides law enforcement as well as EMT services along Volusia County beaches including the beaches in the city of Daytona Beach. Healthcare in Daytona Beach is dominated by Halifax Health (formerly known as Halifax Hospital). The Halifax Hospital Taxing District was established in 1927 by an Act of

5989-539: The European Union, and other major teams had withdrawn from relationships with tobacco companies (e.g. McLaren had ended its eight-year relationship with West ). In reporting the deal, F1 Racing magazine judged it to be a black day for the sport, putting non-tobacco funded teams at a disadvantage and discouraging other brands from entering a sport still associated with tobacco. The magazine estimated that between 2005 and 2011, Ferrari received $ 1 billion from

6102-551: The Ferrari Challenge series, the Shell Historic Challenge is a series consisting of older Ferrari, Maserati , and Scuderia Ferrari -run Alfa Romeo models. Although a racing series, the competition is more of an exhibition of the classic machinery than a true race. Grand-Am also sanctioned an online racing series through the racing simulator iRacing.com . This series raced digital versions of

6215-740: The Florida Legislature as a public hospital district. There are dozens of individual practitioners and Professional Associations (PA) in the Daytona Beach area. Basic utilities in Daytona Beach (water and sewer) are provided by the City Government. The city has a successful recycling program with separate pickups for garbage, yard waste and recycling. Collection is provided by several private companies under contract to Volusia County, Florida . Scuderia Ferrari Scuderia Ferrari ( Italian: [skudeˈriːa ferˈraːri] ), currently racing under Scuderia Ferrari HP ,

6328-595: The GT drivers' title, which had been awarded since the 2013 season, with Ferrari/AF Corse winning five out of nine editions (2013, 2014, 2017, 2021, and 2022). To this tally, AF Corse added four out of six LMGTE PRO team trophies. Several other trophies were won also in the LMGTE PRO/AM class in the WEC. Other victories were also achieved in international and national championships both in GT2/LmGTE and GT3 classes all over

6441-459: The Grand American Road Racing Association in an attempt to merge communications, research, and marketing resources into a single entity, while allowing each organization to continue to control their own racing series. On September 5, 2012, the series announced that they would be merging with the Braselton, Georgia -based American Le Mans Series . Both series stayed current in 2013 and began a combined series in 2014. The premiere series of Grand-Am

6554-426: The Mid Ohio race August 7 and August 8, 2010. The only motorcycle series run by Grand-Am, the SunTrust Moto-ST Series was an endurance racing series launched in 2007 for production-based motorcycles. Races ranged from three hours to eight hours. Motorcycles were four-stroke, two cylinder models and broken into classes depending on power and weight. Teams of riders were used to run an endurance event. From 2009

6667-414: The Miller Cup was a series which started in 2008. A one-make series similar to the Ferrari Challenge, this series used identical Ford Mustang FR500S cars co-developed by Ford Racing and Larry H. Miller , owner of Miller Motorsports Park . The series featured amateur drivers in 45 minute sprint events. The series held its final event September 12, 2010 at Miller Motorsports Park. In the announcement,

6780-406: The NART team and at the 1966 Italian Grand Prix by the British privateer team Reg Parnell kept wearing the red colour, the 1964 Mexican Grand Prix was the last time Ferrari cars wore other than the traditional red colour in Formula One. The Ferrari Formula One team was resistant to the commercial sponsorship for many years and it was not until 1977 that the cars began to feature the logo of

6893-415: The T-shirt shows the DBPD condones violence. The Volusia County Sheriff's office, headed by Mike Chitwood is a countywide law enforcement agency with 446 sworn positions, 438 civilian employees, 300 volunteers and an annual operating budget of $ 73 million that has jurisdiction in unincorporated areas of Volusia County and provides additional law enforcement support to Daytona Beach during such events as

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7006-423: The agreement. The last time Ferrari ran explicit tobacco sponsorship on the car was at the 2007 Chinese Grand Prix , with barcodes and other subliminal markers used afterwards. On 8 July 2011, it was announced that the Marlboro section of its official team name had been removed from the 2011 British Grand Prix onwards, following complaints from sponsorship regulators. As a consequence, the official team's name

7119-416: The city Daytona in his honor, and incorporated the town in 1876. In 1886, the St. Johns & Halifax River Railway arrived in Daytona. The line would be purchased in 1889 by Henry M. Flagler , who made it part of his Florida East Coast Railway . The separate towns of Daytona, Daytona Beach, Kingston, and Seabreeze merged as "Daytona Beach" in 1926, at the urging of civic leader J. B. Kahn and others. By

7232-434: The city has a total area of 64.93 sq mi (168 km ). of which 58.68 sq mi (152 km ) is land and 6.25 sq mi (16 km ) is water, with water thus comprising 9.6% of the total area. The city of Daytona Beach is split in two by the Halifax River lagoon, part of the Intracoastal Waterway , and sits on the Atlantic Ocean. It is bordered on the north by Holly Hill and Ormond Beach and on

7345-430: The deal with Acer , Acer was allowed to sell Ferrari-badged laptops. On the other hand, semiconductor chip maker AMD , announced in early 2009 that it had decided to drop its sponsorship of the team and was waiting for its contract to expire after its former vice-president/sales executive (who was an avid fan of motorsports) had left the company. AMD returned to sponsor the team in 2018. On 3 July 2014, Ferrari announced

7458-416: The end of 1963, a conflict between Ferrari and Ford over the potential acquisition of the Italian manufacturer by the American giant carmaker gave way to the famous "Ford vs. Ferrari war", a sort of modern David vs. Goliath battle that changed international motorsport forever. Ford decided to enter endurance racing pouring unprecedented amounts of money in the development of a racing department in England with

7571-446: The final place on the podium. Ferrari were fined the maximum penalty available to the stewards, $ 100,000, for breach of regulations and for "bringing the sport into disrepute" as per "Article 151c' of the International Sporting Code ". Ferrari said they would not contest the fine. The team were referred to the FIA World Motor Sport Council , where they upheld the stewards' view but did not take any further action. The ban on team orders

7684-420: The first 70 laps, Rubens Barrichello was instructed to let Ferrari teammate Michael Schumacher pass him, a move that proved to be unpopular among many Formula One fans and the FIA , the sport's governing body. Following this incident and others in which team orders were used, such as McLaren 's use of them at the 1997 European Grand Prix and at the 1998 Australian Grand Prix , and Jordan Grand Prix 's at

7797-442: The first true Ferrari cars. After Alberto Ascari and the Marchese Lotario Rangoni Machiavelli di Modena drove them in the 1940 Mille Miglia , World War II put a temporary end to racing and the 815s saw no more competition. Ferrari continued to manufacture machine tools (specifically oleodynamic grinding machines). In 1943, he moved his headquarters to Maranello , where it was bombed in November 1944 and February 1945. Rules for

7910-407: The four-cylinder 500, 625, 750, and 860 Monzas ; and the six-cylinder 376 S and 735 LM . With this potent line-up, Ferrari was able to claim six of the first seven WSC titles (1953, 1954, 1956, 1957, and 1958). In the first half of the 1960s, Ferrari continued to enjoy considerable success, including six overall wins in a row at the 24 Hours of Le Mans (from 1960 to 1965). With the introduction of

8023-418: The iconic Marlboro cigarette packet design. In 2019, Mission Winnow became the team's title sponsor, and the team originally entered the 2019 season as Scuderia Ferrari Mission Winnow. Mission Winnow was dropped from team name before the season opener, while the car's Mission Winnow logos were replaced by a special 90th anniversary logo, after Australian authorities had launched an investigation into whether

8136-663: The initiative introduced by Philip Morris contravened laws banning tobacco advertising. Mission Winnow was restored for the second race of the season, and was used until the Monaco Grand Prix. The Mission Winnow logos were again replaced by the 90th anniversary logos for the Canadian until the Russian Grand Prix. The Mission Winnow branding returned at the Japanese Grand Prix. At the end of

8249-621: The larger private schools include Father Lopez Catholic High School . AM FM Law enforcement in Daytona Beach is provided by the 241-member Daytona Beach Police Department (DBPD) headed by police chief Craig Capri. In a unique and controversial program to help fund the Police Explorer program, run by a subsidiary of the Boy Scouts of America , T-shirts with the words Scumbag Eradication Team : Not in Our Town are sold at

8362-879: The last two races (the United States Grand Prix and Mexican Grand Prix ) in Ferrari 158 cars painted white with blue lengthwise " Cunningham racing stripes " - the national colours of the teams licensed in the United States - as these were entered not by the Italian works team themselves but by the American NART team. This was done as a protest against the agreement between Ferrari and the Italian Racing Authorities regarding their planned mid-engined Ferrari race car. Since Ferrari cars entered in 1965 and 1969 seasons by

8475-418: The latter did not and instead passed Villeneuve. Villeneuve was angered by what he saw as a betrayal by his teammate and, at one point, had even refused to go onto the podium. This feud is often considered to have been a contributory factor to his fatal accident in qualifying at the next race, the 1982 Belgian Grand Prix . At the 2002 Austrian Grand Prix , after having started from pole position and leading

8588-458: The logo of Ferrari after the fallen ace's parents, close acquaintances of Enzo Ferrari, suggested that Ferrari use the symbol as the logo of the Scuderia , telling him it would "bring him good luck". Since its debut in 1950, Ferrari has become a byword for Formula One . For many, Ferrari and Formula One racing have become inseparable, being the only team to have competed in every season since

8701-482: The manager of the factory racing division, Alfa Corse . Alfa Romeo had bought the shares of the Scuderia Ferrari in 1937 and transferred, from 1 January 1938, the official racing activity to Alfa Corse whose new buildings were being erected next to the Alfa factory at Portello, Milan . The Viale Trento e Trieste facilities remained active to assist the racing customers. Enzo Ferrari disagreed with this policy change and

8814-422: The men of the Scuderia and its founder. Ferrari scored international successes in sports car racing while still at the startup phase, taking wins in 1948 at the Mille Miglia and at the Targa Florio with the Ferrari 166 S and in 1949 at the Mille Miglia, at the12 Hours of Paris, at the 24 Hours of Spa , at the Targa Florio, and at the 24 Hours of Le Mans all in the same season. This remarkable streak of victories

8927-618: The minor Circuito di Garda with Giuseppe Farina . After the four-year condition expired, the road car company was called Ferrari S.p.A. , while the name SEFAC (Società Esercizio Fabbriche Automobili e Corse) was used for the racing department. The team was based in Modena from its pre-war founding until 1943, when Enzo Ferrari moved the team to a new factory in Maranello in 1943, and both Scuderia Ferrari and Ferrari's road car factory remain at Maranello to this day. The team owns and operates

9040-414: The most of any calendar month. As of the 2020 United States census , there were 72,647 people, 28,763 households, and 14,607 families residing in the city. As of the 2010 United States census , there were 61,005 people, 25,093 households, and 12,234 families residing in the city. As of 2000, 18.0% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 30.1% were married couples living together, 14.5% had

9153-489: The new V6 turbo engines. Marussia, Cosworth's only team at the time, signed a multi-year deal with Ferrari, beginning in 2014. For the 2024 season , Ferrari supplies the Haas F1 Team and Sauber Motorsport . Ferrari did not enter the first-ever race of the championship, the 1950 British Grand Prix , due to a dispute with the organisers over "start money". In the 1960s, Ferrari withdrew from several races in strike actions. In 1987, Ferrari considered abandoning Formula One for

9266-503: The night of 16 November at a dinner in Bologna , where Ferrari solicited financial help from textile heirs Augusto and Alfredo Caniato and wealthy amateur racer Mario Tadini. He then gathered a team which at its peak included over forty drivers, most of whom raced in various Alfa Romeo 8C cars; Ferrari himself continued racing, with moderate success, until the birth of his first son Dino in 1932. The prancing horse blazon first appeared at

9379-551: The objective to beat Ferrari in this category of races. The Ford GT40 was born and developed in the years following that initiative. After a few years, Ford entered also the Formula One championship. No European manufacturer was able to compete with this level of investment at the time, and Ford engines dominated Formula One racing for over a decade. Moreover, the advent of the American carmaker brought along munificent sponsorships from American tobacco and oil companies, in addition to

9492-465: The police headquarters. The T-shirts contain a caricature of Retired Chief Chitwood standing next to a toilet bowl with the legs of multiple individuals sticking out. The T-shirt has been cited in at least one lawsuit against the DBPD alleging police brutality , the lawyer in the case in which the client sustained broken ribs and a fractured eye socket during an arrest for an open container of beer, claims

9605-421: The population and 16.9% of families were below the poverty line. Out of the total population, 34.9% of those under the age of 18 and 12.1% of those 65 and older were living below the poverty line. As of 2000, English spoken as a first language accounted for 90.37% of all residents, and 9.62% spoke other languages as their first language. The majority were Spanish speakers who made up 4.01% of the population; French

9718-426: The previous edition, came in third place. As a constructor, Ferrari has achieved the following statistics: Ferrari has achieved unparalleled success in Formula One and holds many significant records including (all numbers are based on World Championship events only). Ferrari is the most successful Formula One engine manufacturer with 249 wins, having achieved a single non-Ferrari victory with Scuderia Toro Rosso at

9831-514: The record cold daily maximum is 33 °F (1 °C) on Christmas day 1983, while, conversely, the record warm daily minimum is 82 °F (28 °C) on September 1 and 10–11, 2008 and August 25, 2020. Annual rainfall has ranged from 31.36 in (797 mm) in 2006 and 1956, up to 79.29 in (2,014 mm) in 1953. The most rainfall to have occurred in a calendar day was 12.85 in (326 mm) on October 10, 1924, which contributed to 24.82 in (630 mm) of rain that fell that month,

9944-413: The record for the most Drivers' Championships with 15, won by nine different drivers including Alberto Ascari , Juan Manuel Fangio , Mike Hawthorn , Phil Hill , John Surtees , Niki Lauda , Jody Scheckter , Michael Schumacher , and Kimi Räikkönen . Räikkönen's title in 2007 is the most recent for the team. The 2020 Tuscan Grand Prix marked Ferrari's 1000th Grand Prix in Formula One. Schumacher

10057-417: The same car driven by Pier Guidi, Calado, and Côme Ledogar . A Ferrari 488 GT3 scored the overall win at the 2017 12 Hours of Bathurst and the 2021 24 Hours of Spa . In 2023, after a 50-year hiatus, Ferrari returned to the top class of endurance racing with its new Ferrari 499P , a Le Mans Hypercar prototype. Subsequently, they were able to compete for the world title and in prestigious events, such as

10170-535: The same series. Following the demise of the GT Championship and the creation of a new world championship series for endurance racing by the FIA, Ferrari/AF Corse continued to enjoy much success in GT racing. Of the ten GT manufacturers' championships contested from the introduction of the WEC championship in 2012, Ferrari won seven editions (2012, 2013, 2014, 2016, 2017, 2021, and 2022). Almost the same happened with

10283-603: The series predicted that the FR500S Mustang "will continue to be eligible for competition in a variety of series." The FR500S chassis are now eligible for competition in the GTS class of the SCCA Pro Racing World Challenge , with several modifications to bring their level of performance equal with the other cars in the class. Six Mustang Challenge competitors entered their first event as GTS cars at

10396-709: The series was sanctioned by the American Motorcyclist Association . Grand-Am, American Le Mans Series Merger Details Daytona Beach, Florida Daytona Beach is a coastal resort city in Volusia County, Florida , United States. Located on the East Coast of the United States , its population was 72,647 at the 2020 census . It is part of the Deltona–Daytona Beach–Ormond Beach metropolitan area , and

10509-434: The south by Daytona Beach Shores , South Daytona and Port Orange . Notable weather events that have caused damage or injury in Daytona Beach include Hurricane Donna in 1960, the 1998 Kissimmee tornado outbreak , and Hurricane Charley in 2004. In 1992, a 28-mile (45 km) long rogue wave with a 9 feet (2.7 m) high crest hit Daytona Beach, causing property damage and 75 reported injuries. Daytona Beach has

10622-520: The team extended its 10-year partnership with Kaspersky Lab , which also became its esports team partner. This deal was terminated following the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine . The official suppliers of Ferrari for the 2021 season included Pirelli , Puma , Radiobook, Experis-Veritaaq, SKF , Magneti Marelli , NGK , Brembo , Riedel Communications , VistaJet , and Iveco . Other suppliers included Alfa Romeo , Palantir Technologies , Bell Sports , and Sabelt . The companies sponsoring Ferrari for

10735-502: The technical regulations. Team orders have proven controversial at several points in Ferrari's history. At the 1982 San Marino Grand Prix , the two Ferraris were leading with Gilles Villeneuve ahead of Didier Pironi . The team showed the slow sign to its drivers, and, as per a pre-race agreement, the driver leading at that point was expected to take the win of the Grand Prix. Villeneuve slowed and expected that Pironi would follow;

10848-607: The time, become soon a product of excellence and famous, rich people started to desire and buy them. The streak of prestigious victories continued the following seasons with wins at the Carrera Panamericana in 1951, at the 1950 and 1951 Mille Miglia, and almost at the same time Ferrari started to win in Formula One at several international events. In 1953, with the creation of the WSC, Ferrari, along with other manufacturers like Aston Martin , Maserati , Mercedes-Benz , and Jaguar began to enter multiple factory-backed cars in races, such as

10961-740: The track although do occasionally race separately, typically at shorter circuits. Originally based on a Canadian series before being acquired by Grand-Am, the Continental Tire Sports Car Challenge (originally known as Grand-Am Cup) is a production-based touring car series. The series is split into two classes known as Grand Sport (GS), intended for large capacity GT-style cars, and Street Tuner (ST), consisting of smaller sedans and coupes, some of which are front-wheel drive . The Continental Tire Sports Car Challenge until 2013 supported some Rolex Series races but also headlined some of its own dates. This series continues with

11074-520: The world championship began. Ferrari produces engines for its own Formula One cars and has supplied engines to other teams. Ferrari has previously supplied engines to Minardi (1991), Scuderia Italia (1992–1993), Sauber (1997–2005 with engines badged as Petronas , and 2010–2025), Prost (2001, badged Acer ), Red Bull Racing (2006), Spyker (2007), Scuderia Toro Rosso (2007–2013, 2016), Force India (2008), and Marussia (2014–2015). When regulations changed in 2014, Cosworth decided not to make

11187-555: The world visit the greater Daytona Beach area. The city is also often associated with spring break , though the efforts of the local government to discourage rowdiness, combined with the rise of other spring break destinations, have affected Daytona's preeminence as a spring break destination. It is the destination of Dayton 2 Daytona, an annual event that draws over 3,000 University of Dayton college students since 1977. Annual races at Daytona International Speedway include 24 Hours of Daytona and Daytona 500 . The Daytona Tortugas ,

11300-485: The world. Among the victories in prestigious racing events are the two GT2 class wins scored at the 24 Hours of Le Mans in 2008 and 2009 by Risi Competizione and the four GTE Pro class wins scored by AF Corse at the same event: in 2012 and 2014 with the Ferrari 458 GT2 driven by Gianmaria Bruni , Giancarlo Fisichella , and Toni Vilander ; in 2019 with the Ferrari 488 GTE Ferrari 488 GTE driven by Alessandro Pier Guidi , James Calado , and Daniel Serra ; and in 2021 with

11413-583: The years, allowing for a variety of American, European, and Japanese manufacturers to participate including Audi , Chevrolet , Ferrari , BMW , Porsche , Ford and Mazda . Rules allowed tuned production cars or custom tube frame chassis to be used, letting participants save cost if necessary. In 2013 the GX class were introduced running with alternative fuel and new technology that was not already in use in GT cars. The contending manufacturers were Mazda, Porsche, and Lotus . Daytona Prototypes and GTs usually shared

11526-408: Was 65 years of age or older. The median age was 37 years. For every 100 females, there were 99.7 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 98.5 males. In 2000, the median income for a household in the city was $ 25,439, and the median income for a family was $ 33,514. Males had a median income of $ 25,705 versus $ 20,261 for females. The per capita income for the city was $ 17,530. 23.6% of

11639-414: Was able to contend the Formula One title already from the 1974 season and then went on to win several titles in the following years. After Ferrari withdrawal from the WSC, the series soon saw a decline in the level of competition and reduced almost to a one-contender show until the 1987 season, when several manufacturers entered the championship again. Since the 1985 season, the championship was declassed to

11752-464: Was achieved with the 2-litre Ferrari 166 MM against larger engined sports cars and already known marques. The 166MM in its famous barchetta form represented also a milestone in car design history and was soon copied abroad, ending up revisited in the lines of the Shelby Cobra of the early 1960s. Ferrari cars, being able to win at the first try at Le Mans and to triumph in all the major races of

11865-414: Was almost the only constructor able to support the participation in both the two most important categories of international car motor racing at the time, i.e. the Formula One and endurance racing championships. The fact that it did so, achieving remarkable success with few resources and coming from an impoverished post-World War II Italy, it is seen as a testament to the prowess, passion, and dedication to

11978-532: Was dismissed by Alfa in 1939. In October 1939, Enzo Ferrari left Alfa when the racing activity stopped and founded Auto Avio Costruzioni Ferrari, which also manufactured machine tools. The agreement with Alfa included the condition that he would not use the Ferrari name on cars for four years. In the winter of 1939–1940, Ferrari started work on a racecar of his own, the Tipo 815 (eight cylinders, 1.5 L displacement). The 815s, designed by Alberto Massimino , were thus

12091-490: Was founded by Enzo Ferrari in 1929, initially to race cars produced by Alfa Romeo . By 1947, Ferrari had begun building its own cars. Among its important achievements outside Formula One are winning the World Sportscar Championship , 24 Hours of Le Mans , 24 Hours of Spa , 24 Hours of Daytona , 12 Hours of Sebring , Bathurst 12 Hour , races for Grand tourer cars, and racing on road courses of

12204-651: Was held on the Daytona Beach Road Course , located in the present-day Town of Ponce Inlet. In 1958, William France Sr. and NASCAR created the Daytona International Speedway to replace the beach course. Automobiles are still permitted on most areas of the beach, at a maximum speed of 10 mph (16 km/h). The city of Daytona Beach made national headlines when it designated the several–mile radius around Main Street on

12317-459: Was required to run non-tobacco liveries in United States Grand Prix in the 2000s due to United States Tobacco Master Settlement Agreement requirements, as Phillip Morris was sponsoring Team Penske at the time; a clause in the settlement allowed each tobacco company to sponsor only one sporting entity. In September 2005, Ferrari signed an extension of the arrangement until 2011 at a time when advertising of tobacco sponsorship had become illegal in

12430-416: Was reverted to Scuderia Ferrari. At the 2018 Japanese Grand Prix , Ferrari added Philip Morris International's new Mission Winnow project logos to the car and team clothing. Although Mission Winnow is described as a non-tobacco brand "dedicated to science, technology and innovation", commentators such as The Guardian 's Richard Williams have noted that the logos incorporate elements whose shapes mimic

12543-703: Was subsequently lifted for the 2011 season. In keeping with their Italian roots, the Ferrari works team has always kept a red colour in the tradition of rosso corsa , the national racing colour of Italy , except for last two races in the 1964 season (the 1964 United States Grand Prix and 1964 Mexican Grand Prix ) when Enzo Ferrari let his cars be entered by the NART team in American national racing colours (white with blue lengthwise " Cunningham racing stripes ") to protest against Italian racing authorities. However, Ferrari cars entered by non-Italian privateer teams wore their respective national racing colours until

12656-569: Was the Rolex Sports Car Series which originated in 2000 as a successor to the defunct United States Road Racing Championship . Combining classes of Sports Racing Prototypes and Grand Touring -style production-based cars, the series was centered on the Rolex 24 At Daytona but included a wide variety of American, Canadian, and Mexican tracks. In 2003, the series replaced its Sports Racing Prototypes with new Daytona Prototypes ,

12769-498: Was the third most spoken language, which made up 0.90%; German was at 0.86%; and Arabic was at 0.66% of the population. Tourism is a major part of the Daytona Beach economy, with over 8 million visitors in 2004. Other sources of revenue include manufacturing, and Daytona Beach has industrial sites within an enterprise zone and sites within a foreign trade zone adjacent to Daytona Beach International Airport . Companies and organizations that have their corporate headquarters or

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