Rally stripes
As rally stripes are colloquially referred to as several - usually two, more rarely three - parallel to the longitudinal axis of a vehicle at a relatively close distance from one another and usually over the entire length of the vehicle on the body, which are clearly different in color from the color of the body paint. As a rule, rally stripes are not painted, but applied as adhesive strips.
Rally stripes come from motorsport , where each racing team had its own color for the pit crews to distinguish the vehicles from a distance. In the 1970s and 1980s, they also became popular with “sporty” drivers of road legal vehicles , who thus signaled their driving ambitions to the outside world. According to the art historian Christian Janecke , they stand for a stylization of the race tracks as well as for the movement traces in comics .
Some vehicle manufacturers offer rally stripes for certain models ex works, sometimes as special equipment , for example for the Suzuki Swift or the VW up! . Renault used white double stripes on (mostly) blue body as a distinguishing feature of its Gordini models .
Web links
- Michael von Klodt: When rally stripes are blatant design sins , Die Welt from December 4, 2012, accessed on January 25, 2017
Individual evidence
- ↑ Rowena Fuß: "How fast were rally stripes actually?" Interview with Christian Janecke , Portal Kunstgeschichte from April 19, 2013, accessed on January 26, 2017