The Easter eggs of Ecurie National Belge

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Okay: one more article on yellow cars then. As with so many motoring frivolities, several colours used on cars originate from racing. Originally – and before sponsoring - there were different colours to distinguish racing cars from different countries. The Italians were red, the Germans white, the British used racing green and America had white with two blue stripes over the length of the car, to name just a few and perhaps the best known ones.

Some of these colour schemes were already in use in the 1900s. You can find a full list of racing colours here, with some nice stories attached to some of them also. Very interesting.

The one we’d like to highlight here today is the Belgian racing colour: yellow. This is we love to link that particular colour to this particular day. It gained popularity thanks to Ecurie Nationale Belge which did well in Formula One and sportscar racing team in the 1950s and 1960s after Jacques Swaters' Ecurie Francorchamps merged with Johnny Claes' Ecurie Belge. The team notoriously raced Ferraris - even a sharknose, but also a Jaguar D-type, Lotuses and Coopers, most in signature bright yellow. Some pictures can be seen below.

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