NISMO Spotter Guide for 2014 Le Mans is now live!

Version 4 of the Nissan NISMO Spotter Guide for the 24 Heures du Mans 2014 is now available as a free download following scrutineering

The guide features all 56 cars, team, chassis, engine and driver details along with a timetable, map and current WEC points standings and is the perfect tool for watching at the circuit or from home.. Each car has been illustrated in detail, with the assistance of almost every team. Thanks to these teams, we have the most up to date visual guide available anywhere!

The guide is currently available as a 3 page A3 size PDF and as 3 separate JPEG’s (4500pixels wide) which is perfect for desktop wallpaper and large printing. A smaller A4 size PDF is available in High and Low resolution The A4 release is great for home printing and also viewing on a mobile device.

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No apps or fees are required. You can download the guide HERE, along with any future update

Huge thanks to Nissan for partnering with the guide. Make sure you follow their Twitter Account @NISMO_Global

 

June 13, 2014 / 0 Comments / Category: News / Tags: , , , , , ,

Proton Competition Porsche 991 RSR

Earlier this year, I was commissioned to produce a livery for Proton Competition, one of the Porsche supported teams which competes in the WEC and Le Mans. Along with Falken Tire (who I also assisted with their 2014 991 livery), they are the only non-factory team to run a new generation Porsche 991.

In 2013, Proton changed their livery to Silver and Black design, based on Tully’s sponsorship in the US for Patrick Dempsey. For 2014 the team wanted a design which flowed along the car, not too complicated as very little time was left to design and wrap but retain the Silver and Black. As you can see, at this point, the car was to have significant branding from Eyecoon and Remus. The Remus face has been subtly adjusted so the eyes fit on the air outlet blades.

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June 3, 2014 / 0 Comments / Category: News / Tags: , , , , ,

Nissan to sponsor 2014 Le Mans Spotter Guide

Production of the 24Hr of Le Mans Spotter Guide is well under way and am pleased to announce that, in conjunction with DailySportscar.com, Nissan will be sponsoring the Le Mans Guide once again which is apt given their domination in the P2 category this year!

Also been working on some illustrations for Nissan for their recent GTR-LM NISMO announcement.

Feel free to thank Nissan NISMO on Twitter for the Spotter Guide support if you want to help out. Timescales are tight this year, so provisionally the 1st edition of the guide will be released on the 6th June, ahead of Scrutineering on my dedicated site, SpotterGuides.com for those travelling early.

The guide will then be updated after Scruitneering. As before the guide will be available as an A3 and A4 versions which will suit printing, desktop and mobile viewing…all free of charge and without the need of an app.

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Thanks for the support

Andy

June 1, 2014 / 0 Comments / Category: News / Tags: , , ,

Keep on Trucking…

A quick update, 2014 has been epic for me this year! Lots of new clients, all very happy and lots of cool fresh designs. I have never worked so hard in my life. Its surprising how little sleep you need…….

I have a total of….

  • 4 Car Liveries in TUDOR United SportsCar Championship  (DeltaWing, GMG, Turner, PR1)
  • 4 Car LIveries in Continental Tires SportsCar Challenge (CJ Wilson Racing, Bimmerworld)
  • 4 Car Liveries in Pirelli World Challenge (GMG Racing, Racing for Children)
  • 4 Cars Liveries in the Formula Drift Championship (Papadakis Racing, Tyler McQuarrie Racing, Charles Ng, Danny George)
  • 3 Car liveries in the Porsche Middle East GT Cup (Saudi Falcons & SAS international)
  • 1 (possibly more to come) cars in the World Endurance Championship (Proton Competition)
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May 16, 2014 / 0 Comments / Category: News / Tags: , , , ,

Falken Tire Comission

I have been fortunate to have worked with Falken Tires on a few small projects in recent years. This year I was able to assist on logo placement for the Porsche 911 RSR in the Tudor United SportsCar Championship and my artwork was also used prior to the full car launch at Sebring. I have also designed a number of stickers in recent years for the company. The latest set, for Falken’s Formula Drift program is shown above.

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May 15, 2014 / 0 Comments / Category: News / Tags: , , , ,

Twenty Years Ago : Roland Ratzenberger and Ayrton Senna da Silva

This week marks the 20th Anniversary of the deaths of Roland Ratzenberger and Ayrton Senna at Imola, Italy. I remember very clearly watching Qualifying with my housemates while at Coventry University, going cold after Roland had crashed and they zoomed in on the wreckage, this coming just 24hours after a horrendous accident for Rubens Barrichello during practice. Roland was a very gifted and under-rated driver. Like his team mate David Brabham, he was sure to go onto better things and had been relatively successful in Japan in sportscars, having driven for Toyota and the SARD team. Continue Reading

April 29, 2014 / 0 Comments / Category: News / Tags: ,

2014 Fredric Aasbø Scion tC Formula Drift Livery

I have recently been working with Formula Drift driver Fredric Aasbø, his team, Papadakis Racing and Speedhunters on a new identity for his Scion tC.

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Speedhunter’s Rod Chong originally contacted me last year to work on some ideas for new liveries to replace the iconic Team Need for Speed identity which I designed in 2010. Despite ‘Team NFS’ ceasing to exist a couple of years ago, the asymmetric has continued with updated Speedhunters branding for Fredric (below).

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April 8, 2014 / 0 Comments / Category: News / Tags: , , , , , ,

TUDOR Viewing Guide updated for Long Beach GP weekend

The TUDOR United SportsCar Championship Raceday Viewing Guide incorporating the Spotter Guide is now available to download for this weekend’s round at Long Beach. Prototypes and GT-LM’s feature in this race on Saturday. You can visit the dedicated TUDOR page on SpotterGuides.com or on the Official IMSA website. The guide will also be available at the circuit.

Thanks to everyone who supports the Spotter Guide series and to IMSA who make production of this possible. Special thanks to our media partners including Dailysportscar, RadioLeMans.com, Sportscar365,  Ten-Tenths and l’endurance. We rely on their support, so please make sure you take a second to visit them, or send them a thanks on Twitter!

April 8, 2014 / 0 Comments / Category: News / Tags: , , ,

Formula One & Formula Drift Spotter Guides

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Hankook Tires USA recently commissioned me to produce a special Hero Card in the style of a Spotter Guide featuring all 13 of their runners in the 2014 Formula Drift Championship. Hankook have kindly allowed me to make the online version available on SpotterGuides.com. Hop over to the new Formula Drift page to download the guide.

The guide features three (of four) liveries which I designed. Fredric Aasbo (Scion tC), Tyler McQuarrie (Chevrolet Camaro) and Danny George (Mazda MX-5 Miata)

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April 4, 2014 / 0 Comments / Category: News / Tags: , , , ,

Camp Boggy Creek Livery for Bayshore Racing

Round Two of the Tudor United SportsCar Championship, the 12 Hours of Sebring takes place this weekend and I am delighted to confirm an additional livery in the series for Camp Boggy Creek, Bayshore Recycling and PR1/Mathiasen Motorsport. This makes a total of nine cars racing at Sebring with my liveries!

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Sponsor Bayshore Recycling commissioned me earlier this month to design a livery for their new affiliation with Camp Boggy Creek – the Florida-based camp for seriously ill children. The tie-in with Camp Boggy Creek came through team partner Bayshore Recycling’s desire to highlight a worthy charity for the 2014 season. The decision to form the partnership with Camp Boggy Creek is thanks to the late, great Paul Newman.

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March 13, 2014 / 0 Comments / Category: News / Tags: , , , , ,

Danny George Formula Drift Livery Design

Formula Drift Fan Favourite, Danny George reached out to me for his 2014 livery. Danny has been competing in Formula Drift for a couple of years with a first generation Mazda MX-5 Miata. In 2013 his introduced crowd sourcing and the ability for fans to donate and have a picture on his car in a camouflage livery.  For 2014, Danny wanted a new design around the same concept for his new purpose build second generation (NB) Miata.

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March 7, 2014 / 0 Comments / Category: News / Tags: , , , , , , , ,

l’endurance / DailySportscar 2013 GT Endurance Season Review

I was fortunate to be asked to contribute to the 2013 GT and Endurance Review book put together by l’endurance and Dailysportscar.com and powered by Nissan. I contributed in a very small way with some illustrations for the Blancpain Endurance Series and World Endurance Championship.  The e-book is simply epic and I advise any racing fan to download it for free now.

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February 22, 2014 / 0 Comments / Category: News / Tags: , , , , , , ,

2014 Racing Wallplanner and new-look SpotterGuides.com

The 2014 Racing Wallplanner PDF has finally been launched at out sister site SpotterGuides.com. Its launch also signals a new look to the website which will be familiar to visitors of this very website.

After feedback, the guide has been released as a PDF, which allows you to maintain crisp resolution regardless of size. You can view the Wallplanner in our new ‘GUIDES’ section of the SpotterGuides website

Feel free to spread the word on social media 😉

January 30, 2014 / 0 Comments / Category: News / Tags: , , ,

IMSA Fan Viewing Guide launched for Daytona 24Hrs

After a successful six years producing the official American Le Mans Series Spotter Guide, race car livery designer, Andy Blackmore  has partnered with IMSA to produce a new Fan Raceday Viewing Guide for 2014

The new style guide features all 67 cars with their liveries along with driver rosters, chassis, engine and class details for every car in the Tudor SportsCar Championship. In addition, 40 of the Continental Tires SportsCar Challenge cars are also shown in the guide which will be updated prior to each race.

The guide is produced by IMSA and Andy Blackmore Design and is currently being printed and will be available at the circuit, but the online version, released today has the very latest driver list and liveries including some designs not seen before. Continue Reading

January 23, 2014 / 0 Comments / Category: News / Tags: , , , , , ,

TAG Heuer Eyewear celebrate Tommy Milner and Corvette

Following the design of the new 2014 Helmet for Corvette Racing’s Tommy Milner (see below), I was commissioned by TAG Heuer Eyewear to produce an illustration celebrating the return of Tommy Milner and Corvette GT cars to Daytona. The style was a modern day version of the classic Le mans and Monaco GP posters and should hopefully be the start of a series. Obtaining reference proved a challenge as the new Corvette C7.R livery was only launched earlier this week, so I started with reference images of their camouflage test car, which was a challenge. The C5.R also proved a challenge early on. Winner at the 2001 event, before the internet took off, there was little imagery around, but legendary photographer, John Brooks came to the rescue with 10 images of the C5.R at that race.

A larger image resides on TAG Heuer Eyewear’s Facebook page, which is also where you will be able to download desktop wallpaper of the design shortly.

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January 23, 2014 / 0 Comments / Category: News / Tags: , , , , , , ,

New look inside and out for CJ Wilson Racing

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These two race cars will catch the eye even when they are standing still thanks to brand new race liveries created for the team by renowned automotive artist, Andy Blackmore.

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Team owner, CJ Wilson can barely contain his enthusiasm. “The new race season is here and we have been looking forward to it greatly. As a team we trended upward and won some races last season – and keeping all four of our drivers together makes our team even stronger than 2013. After two years of developing we really feel like this will be our best year yet from a partnership standpoint and from the pit crew and driver perspective everyone is amped and ready to fight for a championship.”

The eye catching new team liveries are also helping to raise Wilson’s excitement levels. “Our MX-5s look fantastic! We have kept the same graphical shape but we have added new types of material to both wraps. The #3 and the #5 cars will be showing up in a lot of Daytona pit lane pictures for sure!”

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January 22, 2014 / 0 Comments / Category: News / Tags: , , ,

DeltaWing 2014 campaign launched with new livery

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24-hour sports car endurance races are as much a matter of survival as competition – an adage even more accurate this week, as DeltaWing Racing Cars prepares to battle more than 60 fellow competitors in the inaugural event of the TUDOR United SportsCar Championship, the Rolex 24 at Daytona.

A host of new elements have made the virtually nonexistent off season an interesting one for the DeltaWing team: a new livery, designed by Andy Blackmore Design, a new tire (the Prototype class runs exclusively on Continental tires), a new television network (all TUDOR Championship races will be on the FOX network) and of course, the new series itself. With the former American Le Mans Series and Grand-Am series now united, the Prototype class has grown to a whopping 18 cars.

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January 20, 2014 / 0 Comments / Category: News / Tags: , , , ,