The grand sport hash marks are rice even on Corvettes, they have nothing to do with racing and first appeared on production C4s. Hash marks were used only
once, at the 1963 Nassau TT, because Mecom Racing were running three Grand Sport Corvettes of exactly the same color. In order to tell them apart while they were coming down the pit straight, they taped hash marks of a different color on the
nose of each car. Race teams do the same thing to this day, but usually it's with the color of the windshield banner. The whole red stripes on the fender thing is GM's factory BS.
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Originally Posted by Longhorn248
Wasn't the original intention of racing stripes to identify to other drivers on the track that you're a noob?
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No, they were invented by Briggs Cunningham in 1951, to make his cars easier for spectators to identify.