Re: R8

["Ian J Haseltine" <Jim_Haseltine@email.msn.com>]

-----Original Message-----
From: Scott Fisher <sefisher@cisco.com>
>At a German Grand Prix in the mid-Fifties, Rob was given a hard time
>over his team colors.  The officials were trying to ping him on the
>technicality that his actual nationality was a citizen of the United
>Kingdom and a subject of Queen Elizabeth, and therefore his cars should
>properly be British Racing Green.


There ain't no such colour. The 'official' colour of UK cars is Ulster
Green, used by the Bentley team at Le Mans and later adopted by some other
UK teams.


Jim Haseltine