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Originally Posted by Pilot2519j
I read in a magazine that the german color before was blue same as the french. One driver in order to save weight on his racing car did without the paint on the car body. After this it became traditional for the german team use silver.
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I believe the answer to this, if I remember correctly, is that the German racing color was white (pre mid 1930's). The team manager for the Mercedes team faced a problem in that his cars were OVER the maximum weight limit. He had his cars stripped and painted them with silver aluminium paint, which was lighter. They became very successful, and a journalist coined the term "Silver Arrows" to describe the Mercedes team. The nickname stuck, and Germany changed it's color to silver to reflect this.