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Honda's range of street-legal Type-R vehicles are offered in Championship White (Honda colour code NH0) which is similar to the original white that adorned Honda's first F1 car ( Honda RA272) driven by Richie Ginther that secured Honda's first ever F1 win in the 1965 Mexican Grand Prix. Slippery Soap never had a cousin even though Josh is the cousin of Steve and Joe and Slippery Soap had only his friend Sudsy in Blue's News and Big News with Blue. There is a racing car that is only known by its livery. In fact if you asked the average motorsport fan to say what the Porsche Pink Pig was they’d probably struggle to tell you. If you’re interested it’s a Porsche 917/20, and a car that to all intents and purposes is a bit gopping. Rumour is that so ugly was the 917/20 that the reason it got its iconic livery was that Martini – then a sponsor of Porsche – refused to put its colours on such an ugly car. Coincidentally, this is also the second episode where wind was the second clue with Mechanics! being the first.

Even in this company the recipe is simple, turquoise and blue. Turquoise at the front, into blue at the rear, and they match somehow. But you absolutely won’t miss it, and that’s what means you’ll remember it. It has been seen mostly on GT cars, cars which have won at the Nürburgring 24 and Spa, and most recently on drift cars, especially memorably on our good friend James Deane’s stunning Eurofighter E92 BMW. You’ll get speed, drama, awesome cars and a whole lot more in this addictive casual driving game that’s as intuitive as it is outrageous.

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Often, sponsorship agreements respect traditional colours. For example, Ferrari has had major sponsors which also use red colours, like Marlboro and Santander. In contrast, when tobacco company West sponsored McLaren in the 1990s and 2000s, they did not use their colours, but the " Silver Arrows" from engine provider Mercedes. In a reversed situation, Subaru has continued using blue and yellow liveries well after their 555 sponsorship ended. As Bugatti embarks upon a new era as a part of the joint company Bugatti Rimac, the latest reinvention of ‘French Racing Blue’ and the definition of a new ‘Bugatti Blue’ is already being considered as a core part of the brand’s future identity. It requires a tone that is timeless, immediately recognizable, and a homage to Bugatti’s rich history. It must portray ‘La Vie en Bleu’ to owners, fans, and enthusiasts across a whole host of platforms – both digital and physical. But of course, the most important of all is its application to a future range of Bugatti vehicles. In the 1930s the Mercedes-Benz and Auto Union teams did not apply the traditional German white paint, and their bare sheets of metal gave rise to the term Silver Arrows. A myth developed in the 1930s that the German teams did not apply white paint owing to the need to be under the 750kg maximum weight limit; however the first "Silver Arrows" raced in 1932, before the weight limit was imposed in 1934. Modern monocoque aircraft fuselage construction was already using polished and unpainted aluminium panels at this period, and the wealthy motor-racing fraternity would also have been aware that in Heraldry, White and Silver are the same colour or ' tincture', described as ' Argent'; (similarly Yellow and Gold are both called ' Or').

Traditional colours are still used by automakers and teams that want to emphasise their racing traditions, especially by Italian, British and German manufacturers. From the early motorsport successes of the Bugatti Type 35 to the reveal of the era-defining Chiron, “French Racing Blue” has been a core part of the Bugatti identity and a way of life: “La Vie en Bleu”. It became a symbol of the dominant Bugatti performances at motorsport events all over the world and has since come to represent the very best of French engineering, innovation, and design, as Bugatti enters an all-new era, “French Racing Blue” will once again be reimagined.What is also notable is that there aren't many sponsors on that car as yet, while Williams haven't yet revealed what they have spent their tokens on - only admitting the FW43B was "evolutionary on the technical side". F1 Testing live on Sky Sports F1 Traditional colours are British racing green with two white parallel stripes (4" wide and 6" apart) In the modern range of Bugatti vehicles, the application of ‘French Racing Blue’ goes further than just the exterior of the cars, with intricate contrast stitching against the leather interiors and a particularly difficult aluminum anodization process. Creating blue anodized aluminum for example is extremely complex, especially when you require the same shade consistently across many different components of the car. Each piece of aluminum, even if it appears identical will react differently during the process, even when all other conditions remain the same.