The Mustang RTR-X which I designed with Formula Drift Champion, Vaughn Gittin jr had its first shakedown at Willow Springs recently. The car performed well and looked stunning out in the sun.

I was in California for less than a day, but it was a very special moment to see the RTR-X driven in anger.

You can read Vaughn’s take on the day, with Larry Chen and Linhbergh’s excellent photography on Speedhunters.

Originally the first of three liveries designed for Gardella Racing, their new Chevy Camaro made its debut at Road Atlanta round of Formula Drift this past weekend, finishing 2nd in initial qualifying.

The basic livery was designed on the Camaro earlier this year, but had to be squeezed down to fit the much smaller Pontiac Solstice in April. Strict Corporate guidelines from Red Bull and Mobil 1 made this a challenging but enjoyable livery for Andy to design. The car will also feature in some GM advertisements for the Camaro later this year.

Irish Drifter, Eric O’Sullivan will be making his 2011 debut in the Atlanta round of the Formula Drift Championship in a Gardella Racing Pontiac Solstice.

Gardella have a long history of Blue race cars, so this was a great chance to show off a more creative livery, not tied to any sponsors. The design uses their iconic blue and their new Corporate GR logo. As you can see on WreckedMagazine, the livery has gone down a storm!!!

Ryan Trueck and Gardella Racing previewed their 2011 Red Bull/Mobil 1 livery at a recent Red Bull event in LA. The design was originally created for the much larger Chevrolet Camaro which is currently in build and needed to be shrinked down to fit the Solstice, while still conforming to Mobil and Red Bull North American Corporate Guidelines.

Ryan will also drive the car at the 1st round of the Formula Drift Championship in Long Beach before the Camaro makes its debut.

Here is a great example of unique artwork I create for teams. The illustration of the two Ford Focus BTCC cars is produced in vector art and is scalable without any loss of resolution. This will be printed around 3.5 metres tall to fit on the race transporters. Smaller versions will appear on merchandise and pit panels

Just a bit of fun, following the recent Chinese GP. I created a Pit Crew Spotter Guide for Jenson to use at the next Grand Prix! As a past employee of McLaren, I’ll be trying to ensure he gets a copy 🙂 You can view the full image HERE

Original idea by Jake Yorath

Following its Dubai 24 Hour win in January, the Team Need for Speed BMW Z4 has gone back to BMW for a full 2011 update and is now back with Schubert Motorsport ready for the FIA GT3 and Nurburgring 24hour races.

As you can see, we’ve decided to keep the reflective wireframe mesh livery, combined with the Team NFS look. I’m sure the Vinyl guys in Germany hate me!

Formula Drift’s ‘Rookie of the Yea’, Fredric Aasbo has joined Team Need for Speed for the 2011 season with two machines in a new eye-catchning livery by Andy Blackmore. Fredric will race for Papadakis Racing in the Formula Drift Championship with an all new Scion tC and will compete in selective events in the Middle East and Europe in his regular Toyota Supra, now in Need for Speed colouration

As with all Team Need for Speed designs, this car has been personalised, with the Rocket Red, paying homage to Fredric’s previous Supra livery and long term partner, Japan Auto. Press release here

The first 2011 Spotter Guides are now available as a free download at SpotterGuides.com.

We currently have the ALMS/ILMC Guide for Sebring, and the all-new FIA GT1 World Championship Guide available.  The guides will be updated during the year.

Download at http//www.spotterguides.com

Andy’s longest serving client, Arena International under the ‘Team Aon’ brand, launched their all-new 2011 Ford Focus Touring Car with Ford at the Geneva Motor Show this week.

The all new car has been developed with assistance from Ford and features a development of Andy’s livery. Andy also assisted in a consultancy role with the Engineers at Arena on the bodykit design of the car.  The car will race in the British Touring Car Championship.

The previous generation Ford Focus BTCC car which Andy helped style, will be raced by Motorbase Performance.