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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.
Officially launched as The National Today Show, [1] Today is Australia's longest running morning breakfast news program. [2] The show premiered on 28 June 1982. The original hosts, Steve Liebmann and Sue Kellaway, spent four years together before Liebmann left to present the evening news for Network Ten in Sydney.
This is referred to in a couple of sources (Brabham, Jack & Doug Nye (2004), The Jack Brabham Story, Motorbooks International, ISBN 0-7603-1590-6 p.147, for example) as racing in the Australian colours. As I understand it, technically they couldn't have done that, since the team was registered in the UK.
The 1996 Australian Touring Car Championship was a CAMS sanctioned motor racing title for drivers of 5.0 Litre Touring Cars [1] complying with Australian Group 3A regulations. [2] The championship, which was the 37th Australian Touring Car Championship , [ 3 ] was promoted as the Shell Australian Touring Car Championship. [ 4 ]
The 1998 Australian Touring Car Championship was an Australian motor racing competition open to 5.0 Litre Touring Cars, [1] (also known as V8 Supercars). [2] The championship, which was sanctioned by the Confederation of Australian Motor Sport as an Australian title, [3] was contested over a ten-round series which began on 1 February 1998 at Sandown International Motor Raceway and ended on 2 ...
The uniforms of Australia's national sports teams are usually green and gold. [8] The golden wattle flower, and the colours green and gold, are also featured on the Coat of arms of Australia. According to the Australian government, "green and gold have been popularly embraced as Australia’s national sporting colours" since the late 1800s. [1]
Introduced in 1964, it continues today under the name Group 2A Sports Cars. The Matich SR4 Repco competed in Australia as a Group A Sports Car in 1969 and 1970. On introduction in 1964, Group A catered only for closed sports racing cars with their open top counterparts continuing under existing CAMS Appendix C Sports Car regulations. [1]
The first title in 1957 was open in regulation, effectively Formula Libre.While the age of the 'Australian special', handbuilt racecars developed by local mechanic/engineers away from the European/American manufacturers that had dominated pre-World War II racing, was not yet dead, most notably the series of Maybach specials were still competitive as second-hand Formula 1 and Formula 2 cars ...