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Byline: DENISE MCCLUGGAGE
As much as race cars have changed in the past 50 years, what drivers wear to race them has changed as dramatically. And that means everything from outerwear to underwear, shoes to headgear.
Most obvious is the absence in the early days of corporate logos on every inch of fabric, especially high on the chest where TV cameras can catch them in tight-shot interviews. No TV then. No sponsors. Cars weren't painted to match cigarette packets or energy-drink cans but wore traditional national colorsthe Queen's green, Italian red, German silver and so on.
The fabric was different, too, in that pre-Nomex era just about the time ...