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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.
[[Category:Auto racing templates]] to the <includeonly> section at the bottom of that page. Otherwise, add <noinclude>[[Category:Auto racing templates]]</noinclude> to the end of the template code, making sure it starts on the same line as the code's last character.
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.
If the template has a separate documentation page (usually called "Template:template name/doc"), add [[Category:Color templates]] to the <includeonly> section at the bottom of that page.
NASCAR cars are checked before qualifying, before racing, sometimes after a race. The process of checking car body against templates changed significantly with the Car of Tomorrow (CoT). Before the change, there were different templates applied to each car model to make sure it resembled the factory version of the car. [ 3 ]
Rosso corsa (lit."racing red" in Italian) is the red international motor racing colour of cars entered by teams from Italy. [2]Since the 1920s Italian race cars of Alfa Romeo, Maserati, Lancia, and later Ferrari and Abarth have been painted in rosso corsa ("racing red").
To use a colour in a template or table you can use the hex triplet (e.g. #CD7F32 is bronze) or HTML color name (e.g. red).. Editors are encouraged to make use of tools, such as Color Brewer 2 to create Brewer palettes, listed at MOS:COLOR for color scheme selection used in graphical charts, maps, tables, and webpages with accessibility in mind for color-blind and visually impaired users.
Infobox for racing cars. Template parameters This template prefers block formatting of parameters. Parameter Description Type Status Name name car_name no description String optional Image image no description File optional Image size (in pixels) image_size no description String deprecated Upright scaling factor for image image_upright Scaling factor for the image. See MOS:UPRIGHT for more ...