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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