green-white-checkered

English

adj
Definitions
  • Pertaining to a rule concerning how to end a motorsports race, which requires that the final two laps of a race must be raced under green flag conditions, so that any red flag or (yellow yellow) caution flag condition on these two laps will extend the race, to allow for a racing finish.

Etymology

Compound from English green + English white (a white-skinned person, bright and colorless)+ English checkered.

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English

checkered

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