Dodge's 'Scat Pack' performance package for 1968-1971 muscle cars featured the bumblebee stripe as a signature. These stripes were featured prominently on the Dodge Charger Daytona racecar. Īn alternative style features stripes which wrap around the car sideways instead of running down the center of the vehicle, called ' bumblebee stripes'. They are sometimes referred to as 'go-faster stripes' on road cars. Such cars as the Renault 8 Gordini had stripes fitted as standard. From the 1960s, stripes have sometimes been applied to road cars as well as racing cars.

The first road car to implement racing stripes was the 1965 Ford Mustang GT350. In 1964, the Shelby Daytona Coupe would use the converse blue with white stripes and would compete in the 19 24 Hours of Le Mans. The two blue stripes were a symbolic echo of the chassis colours. These evolved from the traditional FIA-registered American racing colours of a white body and blue chassis, which dated from when racing cars had the chassis exposed. Usually two parallel blue stripes running from front to rear in the centre of the white body, they helped spectators identify the cars during races. Racing stripes were applied to the Cunningham team's racecars beginning in 1951. The term 'racing stripe' is also used to refer to diagonal lines painted on watercraft hulls, usually on vessels belonging to a country's coast guard. Racing stripes, also called Le Mans stripes or rally stripes, were originally applied to racecars to help identify them in the field during races.

This article is about the design element used on racecars.

Car racing stripes design