Bojan Vrbnjak
Recently, v England talked a lot about being a Canadian billionaire Lawrence stroll, team co-owner Racing Point, took over the shares of a luxury sports car manufacturer Aston Martin.
From here it was not far to speculationto be known British brand to name its race cars and to make them appear in the traditional "British Racing Green”External image. Without hesitation we can say yes Aston Martin sounds much nicer than Racing Point. Regardless of the fact that it is Aston Martin long ago in Formulas 1, as a team partner Red Bull: That is the reason to say story about how it is "British Racing”Came to“Green".
Let's be honest: Racing cars in traditional national colors, that would be something special, wouldn't it? Today we only have it left Ferrari in the classical red in silver Mercedes arrows. It is also McLaren again in appearance papaya orange colors. That is why “British Racing Green”Laid on ice. And how are they The British even get to your green? Specific colors for certain nations: here we have to go back all the way to the race Gordon Bennett Cup, which has been carried out since 1900 to 1905 and it was an annual race for national teams. The winning country had to organize this race the following year. Countries like Germany, France, Great Britain, Italy, USA and some were allowed to start after three race cars. Many race cars were initially Civilizations, which made fans complain that it was very difficult to assign race cars to a particular country. So the countries chose different colors. That is the source.
What very few know today: They are first Americans chosen red color. After many years protest of the Italians they replaced and is Italy got red color, USA however, they switched to white with blue stripes. German race cars have been around for many years beli, and later silver. For The British green was the most obvious choice. Years 1902 is Selwyn Edge (Napier car) won this race. Because the race in England was not allowed, the organizers decided to carry it out in racing more favored Irish. Green Island, that’s why green race cars, it’s so easy. Or not? British racing history expert David Venables he delved into this topic: “Most fans identify ‘British Racing Green’ with Jim Clark’s Lotus or Bentley, the winning Le Mans race car. The truth is that there is no special tone of the alo shade at all."
The base color refers more to Charles Jarrotta and the first race car in racing green by no means was it British, but French. Charles Jarrotta is a French car manufacturer Panhard hired as a factory racer. When it's Jarrott came to the factory (v Paris), they had to inform him that he had received start number 13. The latter was not considered a bringer of happiness even then. To The British somewhat reassured, they are The French the car was painted green, the color it was supposed to be in It brought good luck to France In other countries green means hope. Jarrott he finished the race as tenth, an accident when his mechanic fell out of the car, but ended without serious consequences. Maybe the green color also worked.
Na the same race a year later, is an English manufacturer Napier performed with a race car v olive green. According to some sources, it is supposed to be flat Jarrott the one that gave rise to it, even though there were many cars at the time Napier left the factory in this color. He won SF Edge and with that they are The British provided - according to the rules Bennett Trophy - the right to run the race in the following year. Because he was motorsport banned in England, they did The British sent to Ireland. The United Kingdom was again represented by the producer Napier, this time the race cars were in emerald green. Many also saw this as deviation from the traditional the green of the Irish.
At the race of the year 1903 are different representatives of the States first time also assign colors, although this was not written in the policy. Green za The British, white for Germans (Mercedes with Belgian racer Camille Jenatzy he also won), blue for the French. With that, the path was determined. Car manufacturers from Of England are their own in the future race cars (not always, but more and more often) brought to events in green - Sunbeam, Bentley, Vauxhall, Aston Martin, Jaguar, Lotus. There was no prescribed rule for this.
There are some in the younger past The British retain different shades "British Racing Green". Bentley (with the winning race car Le Mans in 2003), Jaguar (from 2000 to 2004, without success in Formula 1) as well Caterham (formerly the Lotus team), where it was a British team owned Tony Fernandes, A Malaysian and an airline owner AirAsia. End of the year In 2014, Caterham went bankrupt and has since been out Formula 1 said goodbye too racing green.
CLASSIC RACING COLORS
Italy: red
United Kingdom: green
Germany: white, later silver
Belgium: yellow
France: blue
Netherlands: orange
USA: white, then white with blue stripes, later also blue with white stripes
Switzerland: red with white bonnet
Ireland: green-orange
Spain: red with yellow bonnet
Sweden: blue-yellow
South Africa: gold with green bonnet
Brazil: bright yellow with green rims
Japan: white with red sun
Argentina: blue with yellow bonnet
Australia: green with gold bonnet
