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BMW has officially revealed the war paint it will use for its maiden World Superbike Championship campaign in 2009 just a few days before its first outing in Australia.

Richard Petty Motorsports began the build-up to this weekend's Budweiser Shootout at Daytona International Speedway by unveiling a paint scheme with historical significance for the #44 Valvoline Dodge.

Jorge Lorenzo will race in this Sunday's Japanese Grand Prix at Motegi with a special 'Lupin III' livery on his Fiat Yamaha M1.

This is the special livery with which Tech 3 Yamaha star Colin Edwards will race in his home US Grand Prix, at Laguna Seca this afternoon. The one-off paint scheme features the traditional Stars and Stripes of the American flag and New York's Statue of Liberty.

This is the special livery with which Valentino Rossi will ride during this weekend's Catalan Grand Prix. The livery is based on the style and colours of the Italian football team and is being used to celebrate the start of the European Championship.

Team Suzuki Alstare will run a special livery during round six of the 2008 Superbike World Championship at Miller Motorsports Park in Utah this weekend.

Williams' fifth special livery of the 2008 pre-season will feature handwritten best wishes from the team's seven world champions when the Toyota-powered FW30s take to the track at this week's group test in Barcelona.

The outfit, formerly known as the Pramac d'Antin Team, will field former MotoGP race winner Toni Elias and 2007 MotoGP rookie of the year Sylvain Guintoli on its satellite-spec Ducatis.

Tasman Motorsport will be known as Sprint Gas Racing for the next three years, after one of Australia's largest suppliers and exporters of automotive LPG/CNG conversion equipment committed to a multi-million dollar deal.

The bike was unveiled during an official presentation at Jerez. Bayliss was absent from the event as he continues to recuperate from a fractured collarbone - but the Australian will return to the track at the next test session, to be held at Qatar on February 12.

Love it or loathe it, Honda's choice of livery for its disappointing 2007 Formula One campaign certainly set tongues wagging and probably made its environmental project more successful than the team was on track.

The coming Formula One campaign promises to be one packed with milestones for the Williams team, and plans to mark each highlight begin with a series of special colour schemes, starting from the testing livery on display in Spain this week.

The three Spyker MF1 cars will feature a new livery from the Chinese Grand Prix next weekend, having rolled out at the current Silverstone test in silver and orange.

Nextel Cup sponsor GM Goodwrench has taken the wraps off the Daytona 500 paintscheme that it will use to off its 20th anniversary with Richard Childress Racing.