While we're offering WAGs, here's mine:
Rallies often end at restaurants. Since so many great cars are/were
made in Italy, it seems appropriate to meet at an Italian restaurant.
When a finisher is in sight, they set another table, and the driver can
see from afar the checkered tablecloth flying over the table, and it was
his sign he was near the end.
This explains both the checkered pattern and why the flag is waved.
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>>Can anyone tell me how the checkered flag came to be used in motor racing,
>>or where it originated from?
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>>jeh@fotec.com http://www.fotec.com/jim.htm
>>veni, vidi, veloce
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