Comments on: The Dreaded Color Green

By: bickelmom

bickelmom — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 13:21:54 +0000

While I don’t believe in “bad luck”, I think stories like this make racing more fun. It is another kind of human interest-type story that is great to tell. I love the AJ story, for example. Sometimes it is the stupid little stuff that captures people’s attention.

I was a theater major in school and found it endless amusing that we couldn’t say “MacBeth” in the theater for fear of bad luck during a show. Legends and tall tales make things interesting.

By: AZZO45

AZZO45 — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 03:09:22 +0000

Thats enTOURage & this blog has a spell check

By: Mars

Mars — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 02:51:50 +0000

Edward, do yo work for AA? Or are you the apart of the enterage?

By: Mars

Mars — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 02:49:50 +0000

What have you actually contributed, Brian?

By: AZZO45

AZZO45 — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 21:38:48 +0000

Steve: I’m a BRG “fan”… but besides Bentley & Aston @ LeMans… BRG has lived up to the curse

Mario’s Martini Lotus 80 was doomed

Zanardi, Mika, & Herbert’s 90′s era Lotus cars had BRG & were back markers… just sayin’

Having said that I do NOT believe this GREEN CURSE deal

By: Steve_P

Steve_P — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 19:24:06 +0000

Sure, Jaguar didn’t do so good with British Racing Green. However, Lotus, Brabham, BRM, and Aston Martin have done very well with Green. British drivers have used green as far back as 1903, so that definately tells you this green phobia was a USA only issue. Great article though, because I honestly had never heard of a fear of green.

By: Tom G.

Tom G. — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 05:30:35 +0000

I also grew up learning from an early age that Green was bad luck in racing. I could never quite square that up with the British Racing Green tradition though, so I assume the green phobia is only an American thing. Silly though it may be, I love the tradition of it.

BTW – Not only does Viso have green in his livery, he also sports the number 13. I wonder if he has a black cat in the pits too?

By: Pat W

Pat W — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 00:36:58 +0000

I’m fairly sure this is an American phenomenon, you don’t hear of it in racing outside of America although as you say, you don’t really hear of it in American racing all that often any more either.
British Racing Green has meant that generations of British fans, including myself although perhaps not so many of my generation as past ones, consider a certain shade of green to be very lucky, or if not lucky then patriotic in some way (despite green bearing no relation to any British national symbol that I can think of).
Then again, given the general unreliability of British cars in the era when running BRG was popular, no matter how fast they were, perhaps the theory holds water..

By: AZZO45

AZZO45 — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 22:26:22 +0000

Brian: Those were “Little Leaves” as Johansson’s child hood nic-name was Little Leaf. Remember he did drive for Tony Bettenhausen Jr & he subscribed to the “old school” deals George wrote about

By: Edward

Edward — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 21:29:38 +0000

I, like Brian, was hoping we had seen the end of MARS and the diatribes, but that is up to George. Please, PLEASE ban this person, permanently.

Now, on to the blog subject, I don’t buy the “green is an unlucky color” philosophy. As has been shown by other posters, drivers have won championships in cars that were green, so there is no truth to the myth in my eyes. I can understand that some believe that the color green is unlucky, but factually, that has been disproved many times over.