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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.
Originally a mascot painted on Clay Smith's boats and race cars, Mr. Horsepower became the company logo as the reputation of Smith's fine-tuned auto parts spread. [4] Today, the Mr. Horsepower logo is commonly seen as a car decal, [ 5 ] tattoo , [ 6 ] t-shirt logo, [ 7 ] [ 8 ] car mat , [ 9 ] or garage clock .
The logo of the luxury carmaker Ferrari is the Prancing Horse (Italian: Cavallino Rampante, lit. 'little prancing horse'), a prancing black horse on a yellow background. The design was created by Francesco Baracca , an Italian flying ace during World War I , as a symbol to be displayed on his aeroplane; the Baracca family later permitted Enzo ...
Despite getting a brighter spotlight, race cars make up a small percentage of classic-car sales. The collector-car insurer Hagerty expects racers to make up about 0.5 percent of the roughly 12,000 ...
Racing flags [1] are traditionally used in auto racing and similar motorsports to indicate track conditions and to communicate important messages to drivers. Typically, the starter, sometimes the grand marshal of a race, waves the flags atop a flag stand near the start-finish line.
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 ...
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