So I have been tattooed on someones forearm – sort of!
I co-designed the Mustang RTR-X with its owner and Formula Drift Champion, Vaughn Gittin Jr. a couple of years ago.
Its been pretty amazing how much exposure the car still gets. Anyway, just seen this image on Instagram. Fantastic Tattoo, created from the above image at Willow Springs by Drew Phillips. I’m in the passenger seat, you can just see the peak of my helmet LOL.
Scott Elkins is the highly respected COO of IMSA and has been busy drawing up new regulations for the new United Sports Car Championship, which is a merger of the American Le Mans Series and GRAND-AM.
The problem is, both parties want their premier class to lead the grid in the new series. The relatively crude GRAND-AM Daytona prototypes don’t have the aerodynamics of a Le Mans Prototype car, but have a higher top speed, given a long straight. The cars are really polar opposites. Road America saw both series on the same bill, although they didn’t run at the same time, you could compare their times for a rough estimate.
Thanks to a huge effort by the Bimmerworld crew, the all new BMW F30 generation 3 series took to the track this past weekend. This extra entry marks the start of a new era for Bimmerworld and as indicated in our earlier post an all-new identity!
The F30 has been built in-house by Bimmerworld Racing over the past year, while at the same time having to focus on their regular Continental Tires Sports Car Challenge. The 2012 ST Team Champion will use a number of the remaining races as a public test session in preparation for 2014.
Long term client Bimmerworld Racing have been working on a new BMW 328i F30 during the past few months and I have been working on an all-new livery for the team.
The 328i will be the first F30 N20 turbo to be professionally in the world. Livery was signed off this past week and earlier today, Bimmerworld teased the image above on Social Media. Today also saw the car run for the first time.
Car in final build, More soon!
Thanks to some very late Balance of Performance adjustments, the all-conquering Audi R8 LMS Ultras have been rendered also-rans at this weekend’s Spa 24Hours.
Despite this, Laurens Vanthoor was quickest in night qualifying tonight in preparation for this weekends race. Here are a couple of images of the two car Battlefield 4 team at Spa.
Following on from the one-off Battlefield 4 livery I designed for the Nurburgring 24Hrs design, I have produced a revised livery for the two-car Battlefield 4 team for two entries by Team Audi WRT for the 2013 Spa 24Hours.
Compared to the Nurburgring car, I needed to include additional sponsorship with Total along with Pirelli tires. Rather than just stick a rectangular Pirelli logo, I wanted to incorporate it into the design. Multiple DTM champion, Mattias Ekström, Marcel Fässler and regular ABD client, Edward Sandström joins the team for this event and brings additional sponsorship from Red Bull which also needed to be incorporated into the design of car #13
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I took my now annual trip down, into the States for Formula Drift this past weekend. After a successful debut with Team Need for Speed in 2010, when I won the ‘Best Looking Car’ with Mad Mike Whiddett for the Team Need for Speed Mazda RX-8, I’ve always had a presence in the series.
Team Audi WRT video previews the Spa 24Hrs this weekend along with some teaser shots of my two Battlefield 4 liveries, with and without Red Bull branding
More imagery to come
I have released two 2013 Le Mans Wallpaper Desktops for your computer, tablet or Smartphone. The first wallpaper celebrates the Nissan powered entries in the 2013 24 Heures du Mans which includes the E-ZEOD racecar which is the ‘Garage 56’ entry at Next Years Le Mans.
The second wallpaper showcases all the entries of the 2013 race in their finishing order. You can view all the wallpapers at www.spotterguides.com
One of my first liveries was based on a winning design I submitted in an Auto-Express Magazine Toyota BTCC competition in the UK.
Toyota GB were releasing their new Carina E to the public, which would also race in the golden era of Super-Touring in the British Touring Car Championship. As the car was one of the first Toyota’s to be built in the UK, my competition entry featured the Union Flag colors, asymmetrically across the car. I was fortunate to win the competition and my developed design was adjusted a little with curves prior to the 1993 BTCC season.
New client this week! A quick ‘rescue mission’ from Multiple RoC and DTM Champion Mattias Ekstrom. Ekstrom was entered in the Red Bull VW Polo R for X Games Munich but the original Battlefield 4 branding on the all blue car was getting lost. Mattias contacted me after seeing my work with the WRT Audi R8 LMS Ultra to see if there was a quick fix.[
I always like a challenge. Time was tight, I had other commitments and due to the nature of Rallycross, any vinyl wrap has to be refitted every day, so it had to be simple. I received a request on the Tuesday to have a look at a quick fix which could be easily wrapped daily and came up with this Digital Camo which was approved by EA and Red Bull on Thursday, cut overnight and wrapped first thing on Friday! Continue Reading
Thank you to everyone who supported and downloaded the Nissan 24 Heures du Mans Spotter Guide during the past couple of weeks.
Despite an attempt of a competitor to produce a rival guide (which ultimately failed to be released!) we broke all records on SpotterGuides.com for total number of downloads in a single day, before AND then during the race, beating our total 2012 downloads before the race and increasing our downloads by 20% at time of publication.
The biggest, most detailed Spotter Guide produced, the 2013 edition of the 24 Heures du Mans, sponsored by Nissan, is now online to download. Version 1 of the guide is available for those travelling to the event for Scrutineering. The guide will then be updated early next week, so pop back them if you don’t leave for a few days.
The Nissan 24 Heures du Mans Spotter Guide is bigger than ever with an extra resource page with circuit map, current WEC points, timetable and useful links. On the main guide pages, we have the usual car and team info, including Tyres, Fuel, Class and Engine. New for 2013 are FIA/ACO Driver Grading icons and Le Mans garage numbers.
I was approached by CJ Wilson Racing earlier this year to design a unique crash helmet for Ohio State University student and Mazda MX-5 racer, Patrick Gallagher.
Working with the teams PR Guru, Declan Brennan, we decided to create a unique replica of the current OSU College Football helmet With some subtle colour breaks giving the impression of a different appearance around the base and a mock chin guard the helmet, painted by Censport Graphics looks amazing. Continue Reading
The one-off Battlefield 4 livery, which I designed for Electronic Arts and Team WRT Audi at the 24 Hours of Nurburgring is now being retained for the Silverstone round of the Blancpain series this weekend after it quickly proved a crowd favourite online.
In addition, the team’s 2nd car will also promote Battlefield 4 with different coloured striping. I think thats classed as a success!
Last month I was commissioned by Electronic Arts to create a one-off Battlefield 4 livery for the Belgian Team WRT Audi R8 LMS which will compete at the forthcoming Nurburgring 24Hours.
I had previously worked with Edward Sandstrom and EA Exec Patrick Soderlund on the Team Need for Speed programme, so it was cool to get another chance to create an EA Livery.
Existing client, Tyler McQuarrie Racing launched their updated Cheverolet Camaro at this weeks Formula Drift event. The team also announced INDYCAR Stat, JR Hildebrand will also compete in select rounds in the later half of the season.
I designed the liveries of these cars, an update from the previous season with revised branding from Hankook and Mobil and coloration. JR’s car will have reversed colours on the front end.
After my successful Jenson Button Pit Crew Spotter Guide a couple of years ago, we had to bring the Pit Crew Guide up to date following Lewis’ exploits in the Malaysian Grand Prix where he confused his old team, McLaren with Mercedes GP.
We had over 37000 downloads just on Facebook with over 205 Shares in 36 hours!
You can view the special guide here…
Scion works team, Papadakis Racing reached out to Andy recently to update the livery of their Scion tC Formula Drift car, which he originally designed back in 2011.
The car has minimal updates and has retained the original Team Need for Speed livery even though the organization bailed out of motorsport. Shows how a good striking livery can have more impact and longevity than the brand! Continue Reading
This awesome video of the Saudi Falcons exploits at the recent Dubai 24Hrs has been produced by the Awesome Group, based in Dubai. RadioLeMans John Hindhaugh and Paul Truswell provide added flavour.
The video has been a huge hit, featured on many sites around the world including Drive ensuring more exposure for the team and of course the unique livery
Enjoy!