[Sunbeam Talbot Email List] stripes/racing stripes

[Ric Scofidio]

Hi all,

Briggs Cunningham was the first to use racing stripes on his cars in 1951.
The benefits were 

1.) he said it was easier to spot his cars on the track
2.) if a driver spun it was easier to align the car with the track

I¹ve also heard that one of the primary reasons stripes were adopted by
others was that it was easier to tell how much a car was under or
oversteering as it went through a curve ­ this would help in setting up a
car for a particular track. I¹ve never heard anything regarding width.

-Ricardo




From: <DIn1022099 at aol.com>
Date: Tue, 2 Mar 2010 19:45:06 -0500
To: <raymead at comcast.net>, "staowners at sunbeamtalbot.info"
<staowners at sunbeamtalbot.info>
Subject: Re: [Sunbeam Talbot Email List] stripes/racing stripes

Hello Ray,
 
 I was in the U.S. Air Force in the mid 60's too. Saw lots of stripes on
many cars but didn't know the width meant something. What a concept.
 
Don
 
In a message dated 3/2/2010 12:18:17 P.M. Pacific Standard Time,
raymead at comcast.net writes:
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> Way back when (mid 60s) , i was in a sportscar club in San Antonio,  Texas
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> There was a guy in the club (an Englishman who was in our
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> As I remember it - he told me that stripes down the hood of a car
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> refer to both the car and the driver..........  depending on the  thickness
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> of the stripes, and their layout, it would mean something like "car  ready",
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> or "driver ready" or "car and driver ready"..............
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> Anyone know what the heck I am talking about??????
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> tks,  ray
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