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From: davew@shark.UUCP (Dave Williams)
Newsgroups: net.auto
Subject: Re: American Racing colors
Message-ID: <1479@shark.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 23-Jul-85 13:04:12 EDT
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Posted: Tue Jul 23 13:04:12 1985
Date-Received: Thu, 25-Jul-85 07:47:05 EDT
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In article <2729@druhi.UUCP> vuser@druhi.UUCP (GerardenC) writes:
>
>I was reading an article not to long ago about the colors various
>countries used when representing autos in competition. this was
>standard in the 60's. I always thought Italy (ferrari) used red,
>U.K (lotus,brm,etc) was green. Is the white blue combination used
>for U.S cars ?. If so, is the design of the blue stripes on the white
>car a standard ?. Are there always 2 wide blue stripes ?. Any info.
>on this would be helpful
>
>					thanks
>					chuck gerarden
>
>					druhi!vuser

The idea of using different colors to represent cars for various countries
occured very early in Grand Prix racing. I believe the FIA had a standard.
As far as I know there is no standard as far as stripe width is concerned.
Italy is red, England is dark green (British Racing Green), France is
blue and I believe Germany is silver. The US is blue with white stripes.
Sweden is blue with yellow stripes.
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