I guess, since I'm Italian
I guess, since I'm Italian, I have to jump into this one.
"Scudo" means "Shield". In the medieval times, in the northern parts of Italy, especially in Tuscany and Emilia Romagna (this last one is the state where Modena is located), there were competitions of armored Knights with their horses. The competitors would form teams that represented each individual small town,city or pricipality, each of these teams had a "Shield of Arms"(like their own flag) for which it was called a "Scuderia". In these way they would organize the teams to fight against each other, to eliminate the loosing Scuderias and to proclaim the winning ones as champions.
Since all this involved horses, I guess "il Commendatore" decided to call his racing team "a scuderia".
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