Talk:Racing stripe

Rename
This really ought to be moved to racing stripes, but there is already an article Racing Stripes about a film. Results on Google : "racing stripes" 1,400,000 results  "go-faster stripes" 42,100 results Gzuckier 13:55, 26 June 2006 (UTC)


 * Well, I claim priority, as go-faster stripes is the term most commonly used in the UK, and the Racing Stripes article includes a redirect here anyway, so whichever you search for, you'll find it. Graham 11:46, 27 June 2006 (UTC)


 * The term racing strip has been in use since the 50's. They were for many years a required part of Formula One cars to designate the country of the team, and the term is clearly used throughout the English speaking world. How does a derogatory and obscure UK slang term take precedence over the better description? Scottanon 21:42, 25 July 2006 (UTC)


 * Yeah, I agree that this should be moved to racing stripes. Go-faster stripes might be commonly used in some niche circles, but I've never heard it, and the article even says it's a slang derogatory term. Mcrawford620 16:31, 9 May 2007 (UTC)


 * All wrong, GoFaster Stripes are there to make your car go faster, this "raceing stripes" BS is just a term made to confuse people. That and Go-Faster Stripes is a more commonly used description than ""Racing Stripes"" so stop being picky Ross 22 June 2007 (UTC)


 * After some further research, one can find contrasting hood stripes on cars pre-dating the Cunningham cars, notably a 1948 Ferrari with a white stripe and earlier cars with various hood stripe markings. The article seems to heavily plug the Cunningham legacy but doesn't go into detail about the functionality of the stripes, other than for country of origin (FIM req's).  According to racers (I was a professional test driver), the stripes functionally served two purposes other than what was stated in the article.  One was to identify the side the driver was on, for pit and safety reasons, given that in many racing venues, this would vary.  Two was to line the stripe up with the steering column to use it as a cornering aide.  On many early cars, the stripe was visible by the driver.  It also doesn't elaborate on the use by many manufacturers (albeit for styling reasons only), both foreign and domestic from the mid-late sixties through today.  Ccrider77  19:01, 31 January 2011 (PST)

See discussion above. Go-faster stripes is UK slang. Racing stripes are part of the FIA regulations and used seriously in motorsports world wide. It's as if Honda Racing F1 redirected to Ricer.Scottanon (talk) 21:52, 15 February 2008 (UTC)
 * There is a photo of the first racing stripe at http://www.briggscunningham.com/lemans51.html and an explanation of how it came to be on the car at http://www.jcna.com/library/news/2003/jcna0170.html If you look at a photo of Le Monstre from 1950 and compare it with the 1951 cars you can see that the paint job was simply refined into a wide double stripe. Racing stripes have been single, double, triple lines - narrow and wide. And yes their most useful function is alignment of the car out of a spin, and have nothing to do with making the car go faster. Putting them on a car identifies the car with racing, like on Herbie in The Love Bug, particularly if the car also has numbers on it. A racing stripe with no numbers, like on the Viper or the Cobra are just for show. This article definitely needs to be moved to racing stripe. 199.125.109.57 (talk) 15:08, 16 February 2008 (UTC)


 * support rename, and the movie should be disambiguated with "(film)" tacked on. 132.205.44.5 (talk) 00:31, 17 February 2008 (UTC)
 * support rename, The article title "Racing Stripe" should at least be re-named to "Racing Stripes" because the singular does not appear in the article at all. Disambiguation is a valuable tool for just this sort of issue. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Eltimbalino (talk • contribs) 11:17, 14 March 2011 (UTC)

What about the term "rally stripes"? Is "rally stripes" synonymous with "racing stripes"? 143.112.144.129 (talk) 23:57, 27 July 2012 (UTC)

Propose rewrite of whole "go faster" explanation
No real person believes stripes are fooling anyone into thinking they have a faster car, or believes that they stripes actually make their car faster. Rather that is a pejorative accusation; i.e. a straw man. Unless somebody can cite a source... I think you could find a source to show that "go faster stripes" is used as a pejorative, but not a source to prove that the victim of the insult actually deserves it. The article makes it sound like such straw men are real. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Dbratland (talk • contribs) 20:20, 11 April 2009 (UTC)

Merge from
The article Car body stripes has been created and really needs merged into this one. How many pages do we need on paint stripes? Scottanon (talk) 17:28, 28 September 2010 (UTC)

Rally stripes
The Morris Dictionary of Word and Phrase Origins says rally stripes originated simply to identify competitors. --Dennis Bratland (talk) 18:42, 26 January 2013 (UTC)

Are the dual central stripes not related to Ford/Shelby?
I always thought the dual thick white stripes was something started by Shelby with his Le Mans winning Ford GT40, and continued with Ford's racy models. You see it on Mustangs, the European Ford sporty cars and also the recent Ford GT. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 188.174.216.109 (talk) 11:36, 14 April 2013 (UTC)
 * Shelby used them heavily with their racing team and the Shelby GT350 was the first road vehicle to use the stripes. It has been noted in the article. F-16 Viper (talk) 07:04, 17 March 2016 (UTC)

The Perishers Go Faster stripe.
I'm removing the information on The Perishers comic which has been unsourced for many years. I tried to look up information on it to use as a source but I couldn't find anything. F-16 Viper (talk) 07:02, 17 March 2016 (UTC)