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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.
Originally a solid colour, British Racing Green is increasingly a metallic paint due to the limited range of solids offered by today's manufacturers. Paying tribute to the small British roadsters of the 1960s that inspired the Mazda MX-5 (such as the Triumph Spitfire, Austin-Healey Sprite, MG MGB and the Lotus Elan), Mazda produced a limited ...
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 ...
British Racing Green is a deep shade of green and not simply green as listed and illustrated. Also, silver was never an "official" colour for Germany. The fact that Mercedes chose to run unpainted silver cars does not mean silver was officially the national colour as well as white.
The latter car had authentic-looking "#8" graphics from 1956, and Dale Jr's sponsor Budweiser added 1956-era Budweiser logos. During the 2008 NASCAR Sprint All-Star Race, Earnhardt raced a car painted similar to Buddy Baker's "Grey Ghost" Oldsmobile 442 that won the 1980 Daytona 500 and set a race record that still stands.
The sample in the table is from the car's color at Napier 30 HP and is the closest hexidecimal I could come up with. It would be a nice addition to this page if someone could find out when and how green was assigned to British cars and the transitions to the official British Racing Green color. DialUp 21:24, 13 Feb 2005 (UTC) See comment below.
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British Touring Car Championship (4 C, 18 P) Pages in category "Auto racing series in the United Kingdom" The following 44 pages are in this category, out of 44 total.