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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.
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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").
A 1907 Napier 60hp T21, one of the earliest and lighter examples of British racing green. In the days of the Gordon Bennett Cup, Count Eliot Zborowski, father of inter-war racing legend Louis Zborowski, suggested that each national entrant be allotted a different colour. Every component of a car had to be produced in the competing country, as ...
I'm glad someone else agrees about these colors. As a fan of mid-century F1, it's nice to have a color reference! --SFoskett 20:33, Dec 3, 2004 (UTC) I've understood the national racing colour of Finland is black with blue numbers on white background. White with blue cross on bonnet is admittedly mentioned also.
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 jockeys to indicate the horse's owner
In Formula One racing, a yellow flag displayed at the starter's stand or a marshal station indicates that there is a hazard "downstream" of the station. The manner of display depends on the location of the hazard: A single waved flag denotes a hazard on the racing surface itself. A single stationary flag denotes a hazard near the racing surface.
British racing green [citation needed] RAL 6006: Grey olive: Standard Feldgrau used by the Wehrmacht [7] RAL 6007: Bottle green: RAL 6008: Brown green: RAL 6009: Fir green: Galactica: RAL 6010: Grass green: RAL 6011: Reseda green: RAL 6012: Black green: Until 1994 for some units of the Bundesgrenzschutz [citation needed] RAL 6013: Reed green ...