Racing Green?

If I said to you the words “historic racing” and “green,” what comes immediately to mind? A British racing green Jaguar? The infield grass at your favorite track? All the money you spent on your last racing engine? Any of these would seem valid to me. But would you have thought about making your historic racecar more environmentally friendly? Yeah, me neither.

On a day-to-day basis, I get deluged with press releases. They come by email in droves, along with offers of low-cost Viagra and offers to help the Mauritanian government with a little cash flow problem that apparently only I can remedy. However, through this tidal wave of junk email, the title of one press release so jumped off the screen at me, I had to stop and go through it, just to assure myself that I wasn’t hallucinating. The title read, “Race Retro asks ‘How Can Historic Motorsport Go Green?’” As I opened the email, I hoped that this missive would somehow revolve around the British national racing colors and not the inevitable encroachment of inane restrictions on historic racing. Sadly, this wasn’t a discourse on paint schemes.