Coloured [number] roundels used at the TT - but why?
#1
Posted 30 August 2005 - 07:58
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#2
Posted 31 August 2005 - 21:41
At Le Mans the small RAF-type roundels signified that the car had qualified for the Rudge-Whitworth Biennial Cup, either because the entrant or one of the drivers had finished the year before. We discussed this before but nobody seemed to know what the Biennial Cup regulations were.
#3
Posted 01 September 2005 - 10:45
#4
Posted 01 September 2005 - 10:56
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#5
Posted 01 September 2005 - 11:09
Originally posted by D-Type
At Le Mans the small RAF-type roundels signified that the car had qualified for the Rudge-Whitworth Biennial Cup, either because the entrant or one of the drivers had finished the year before. We discussed this before but nobody seemed to know what the Biennial Cup regulations were.
I always thought that the small yellow, blue or redwhiteblue roundels indicated the material from which the body had been made. This as a safety precaution if in case of an accident a driver had to be cut out of the body. Is this false info or only partly correct?
#6
Posted 01 September 2005 - 21:14
#7
Posted 02 September 2005 - 08:39
#8
Posted 30 November 2011 - 20:33
Since this was posted I have read similar information elsewhere. But that was somewhat later than the use of "RAF-type" roundels for the Biennial CupI always thought that the small yellow, blue or redwhiteblue roundels indicated the material from which the body had been made. This as a safety precaution if in case of an accident a driver had to be cut out of the body. Is this false info or only partly correct?
Edited by D-Type, 30 November 2011 - 23:27.