It is simply a stylized letter "A" with an umlaut. Here is a graphic with all the umlaut-ed characters in German. http://www.edu.gunma-u.ac.jp/~kamata/media/01.umlaut-2.gif At 08:48 PM 7/1/2007, you wrote: >Fred, >I haven't watched the race yet...but what's the story on these >"A-Style Banners" you wrote about? >Regards, >Joe