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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.
At some point the sky blue orange colour scheme later associted with Gulf oil sponsorship had been considered Australian racing colours, but I can't for the moment find a source to back that up. Lotus used yellow rather than gold for their nose, I imagine so this could distinguish their cars more easily from Cooper's at a guess which wore green ...
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 ...
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]
The series ras as part of the Australian Racing Group's SpeedSeries. Initially, the rounds at Sydney Motorsport Park and Mount Panorama Circuit were scheduled to be part of the TCR World Tour , but the rounds were removed from that championship due to logistics issues for teams transporting cars in to the country.
Illustrated example of Uruguayan 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).
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Racing colors or racing colours may refer to: Motor-racing colours, formerly used to indicate a driver or car's country of origin; Horse-racing colours, worn by ...