Talk:Racing stripe

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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)

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)