I wonder if they force-fed their drivers laxatives before a race as well?!
:-) JD
-----Original Message-----
From: Matt Ritter [SMTP:prdesign@ix.netcom.com]
Sent: April 14, 2000 8:45 AM
Cc: triumphs@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: Racing colours
Interesteing note Germany's colors were originally some sort of very
dark
green. But i believe either mercedes or auto union stopped painting
there
cars to say weight. This was noted at a LeMans testing a few years
back
when the porsche gt-1's showed up without paint on the dark green
carbon
kevlar bodies.
Matt.
a Wallace wrote:
>
> I asked about this a couple of weeks ago but got minimal response.
I know
> that someone knows the answer so I'm resubmitting with the hopes
that they
> missed the question the first time around.
>
> Can anyone supply the list of which colour represents which
country for
> international races? I remember red for Italy, silver for Germany,
green
> for England, and that there was some interesting story about
Ireland's
> involvement around 1903 or so.
>
> Thanks. This time I'll save it somewhere more permanent!
>
> Regards,
> Jim Wallace
> Canada (blue with white stripes in the 60's?)
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