155 V6 TI — the three-stripe sash
Three stripes in a fixed order on a white shell — the most portable livery ever drawn, and the last scheme the works 155 wore.
| Team / entry | Alfa Corse / JAS Motorsport, DTM and ITC — Martini Racing |
|---|---|
| Car | Alfa Romeo 155 V6 TI |
| Years | 1995–1996 |
| Decade | 1990s |
| Hero-car issue | Issue 07 — Alfa Romeo 155 V6 TI |
Reading the geometry
The Martini sash arrived on the 155 late in 1995 as an advance notice of the following season, then ran properly in 1996 on the JAS Motorsport cars of Gabriele Tarquini and Stefano Modena in the ITC. It was the final works season before Alfa withdrew.
The system is three parallel stripes — light blue, navy, red — always in that sequence, always the same relative widths, run low along the rocker and again transversely over the nose and roof. Because the order is fixed, the scheme survives any change of body: it worked on a 917, on rally Lancias, and it works here.
White is doing more than it appears to. The stripes only read as a sash because the field around them is empty, which is why the set sits low and the upper body is left alone. Colour and stripe geometry only.
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