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From the beginning of organised motor sport events, in the early 1900s, until the late 1960s, before commercial sponsorship liveries came into common use, vehicles competing in Formula One, sports car racing, touring car racing and other international auto racing competitions customarily painted their cars in standardised racing colours that indicated the nation of origin of the car or driver.
Illustrated example of U.S. racing color. Drawn by Kzaral. The shape roughly based on this GFDL image. Date: 29 April 2007 (original upload date) Source: No machine-readable source provided. Own work assumed (based on copyright claims). Author: No machine-readable author provided. Kzaral~commonswiki assumed (based on copyright claims).
Formula One sponsorship liveries have been used since the 1968 season. Before the arrival of sponsorship liveries in 1968 the nationality of the team determined the colour of a car entered by the team, e.g. cars entered by Italian teams were rosso corsa red, cars entered by French teams were bleu de France blue, and cars entered by British teams (with several exceptions, such as cars entered ...
Ligier and later Prost chose blue because of their French nationalities. The matter if this choise was made during the time when national colours were obligatory or not is irrelevant. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 195.80.191.190 13:34, 15 July 2010 (UTC) Oh no, that is highly relevant. National colors were mandatory for decades.
Special paint schemes are one-time or limited time variations on a race car's typical appearance. Their use has historically been largely confined to NASCAR stock car racing, partially due to the much larger surface area of a stock car, and longer season, but have entered the IndyCar in a limited fashion.
The accurate colors and fonts returned when NBC's coverage resumed in 2015, and by then this had become common practice for most TV networks for major auto racing series. In 2018, a new secondary leaderboard graphic was introduced and is displayed vertically on the left side of the screen, essentially the same thing as the graphic introduced in ...
The colors and patterns of jockeys' silks have special meaning for horse owners. The silks for the historic 150th edition of the Kentucky Derby on May 4 at Churchill Downs are filled with a ...
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