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2016 IMSA Livery teasers

Happy New Year!

With IMSA’s ROAR test just days away, ahead of the Rolex 24Hours, a couple of liveries are starting to surface on social media.

Turner Motorsport have a 2 car entry in the newly named WeatherTech SportsCar Championship with the all new BMW M6 GT3. More details on the livery later, but this is a development of the successful Z4 GT3 livery. Look closely and you might spot some differences between the 96 and 97 cars.
Turner are very pro-active on Social media, so you can catch up on their progress on Twitter.

January 6, 2016 / 0 Comments / Category: News / Tags: CJ Wilson, CJ Wilson Racing, CJW, IMSA, livery design, Spotter Guides, Turner Motorsport

CJ Wilson announces 2016 Porsche Cayman GT4 Continental Tire SportsCar Challenge campaign.

Current Continental Tires SportsCar Challenge ‘ST’ Champions, CJ Wilson Racing has announced a two-car entry in the ‘GS’ class with the all-new Porsche Cayman GT4 Clubsport.

The new Cayman was launched at the Los Angeles Motor Show earlier this week. With a brainstorming session before the car was launched, it was a great opportunity to create an ‘old school’ digital render of the car with a launch livery. Time was the essence, so this was all completed within one day. My background is vehicle design and styling, so it was good to create one of these illustrations.

The livery itself is a development of the previous MX-5 livery with an oversized ‘CJ’Ã‚Â signature graphic scaled down to allow for sponsorship space.

November 22, 2015 / 0 Comments / Category: News / Tags: 2016, CJW, Clubsport, Continental Tires, IMSA, livery design, Porsche Cayman

McRae Tribute WRX STi ready for Wales Rally GB

2015 Rally America Champion, David Higgins and co-driver Craig Drew conducted testing ahead of Wales Rally GB earlier this week with their Group N 2015 Subaru WRX STI entered by Subaru Rally Team USA and Vermont SportsCar.

Commissioned by Vermont to design a tribute livery to honor the late Colin McRae and his 1995 WRC Championship Win, the car has quickly become a fan favourite after a successful test and the ‘ceremonial’ start on Thursday night. Continue Reading

November 13, 2015 / 0 Comments / Category: News / Tags: Colin McRae, livery design, McRae, SRT USA, SRTUSA, Subaru, Vermont SportsCar, WRX STI

SEMA Show 2015 recap

Another successful SEMA Show in the books. My tenth visit to the largest automotive aftermarket show in Vegas, SEMA is a trade only show filled with thousands of competition cars and car builds, and this year, an insane 140,000 people.

I have over 90 images of the show on my Instagram feed, which you can view here.

A quick overview of my cars at SEMA 2015….

November 7, 2015 / 0 Comments / Category: News / Tags: automotive styling, Killagram, livery design, Maxxis, RTR-X, SEMA, Speedhunters, SRT USA, SRTUSA

SEMA Show 2015

I will be at the SEMA Show from Tuesday 2nd – Thursday 4th November. If you would like to meet up to discuss any project or collaboration, please do not hesitate to contact me via my contact page or social media.

October 27, 2015 / 0 Comments / Category: News / Tags: livery design, SEMA, Vehicle Styling

Subaru Rally Team USA to run tribute Colin McRae livery

I have been very fortunate to have turned my hobby into my career. Although not a big ‘design’ project, this is a special one for me. I was commissioned by regular client, Vermont SportsCar, who run the Subaru Rally Team USA program to create a Colin McRae tribute livery to celebrate the 20th anniversary of Colin’s World Rally Championship. David Higgins will pilot his Group N (JRM) Subaru WRX STi with co-driver Craig Drew.

I have tried to keep as close was we can to the original livery, swapping out tyre and fuel sponsors of the day to 2015 partners including coloration where possible. Subaru die-hards will notice we are also using the darker non-metallic blue of the early cars.

It was a very cool project to work on and as a kid from Great Britain who grew up with rallying (my god-father was a co-driver, then later I co-drove in a couple of Single Venue British Championships with my brother-in-law) it was special to be able to pay tribute to Britain’s first WRC Champion.

October 26, 2015 / 0 Comments / Category: News / Tags: 555, Colin McRae, livery design, McRae, SRT USA, STi, Subaru, Vermont SportsCar, WRC, WRX

Perfect Season for Subaru Rally Team USA

Congratulations to clients, VermontSportsCar, Subaru Rally Team USA and their drivers David Higgins and Craig Drew on an amazing perfect season in Rally America in a brand new car.

I have been working with Vermont for the past couple of years on their liveries in Rally America and Global RallyCross.

Congratulations guys, an amazing achievement

October 17, 2015 / 0 Comments / Category: News / Tags: GRC, livery design, Rally America, Subaru, Subaru USA, Vermont SportsCar

A BAD (Lambo) Variation

BAD Lambo Racing and Park Place Motorsport recently commissioned me to produce a variation on Jim Norman’s BAD Lambo Racing livery for up and coming racer, Madison Snow.

Sponsored by UIS, the basic design remains but the colors and transition has been modified. Matte Black has made way for a Gloss finish while the oranges and bright reds at the front have been merged to match the sponsor house colors, creating a deep Dark ‘Blood’ Red.

White has been introduced on the side which breaks into Silver and back to the Red to give a unique look which also but retains the basic team identity.

The original BAD Lambo livery remains (shown above).

The new livery will make its debut at the Circuit of The Americas round of the Lamborghini Super Trofeo Championship North America.

Images: Jamey Price for Lamborghini

September 16, 2015 / 0 Comments / Category: News / Tags: BAD Lambo, Bad Lambo Racing, Jim Norman, Lamborghini, livery design, Park Place Motorsport

Subaru Rally Team USA

I have been fortunate to work with Vermont SportsCar in recent years on their Rally America and Global RallyCross Championship campaigns on behalf of Subaru Rally Team USA.

The latest livery will make its debut at the Los Angeles Round of the GRC championship and showcases increased involvement from STI.

A livery design feature is now available on-site here.

September 2, 2015 / 0 Comments / Category: News / Tags: livery design, Rally, Rally America, SRT USA, STi, Subaru, Vermont, WRX

Turner secures two BMW M6 GT3 cars for 2016

Recently created this rendering for Turner Motorsports to announce the purchase of two new BMW M6 GT3’s for the 2016 WeatherTech SportsCar Championship. Fun working through all the details of the currently disguised car

The livery is a development of the design I created for the team last year.

Press release follows.

August 31, 2015 / 0 Comments / Category: News / Tags: BMW, BMW M6 GT3, Illustration, IMSA, livery design, M6, Turner Motorsport, WeatherTech

His & Hers Ferrari 458 Challenge

Early last year, I was commissioned by well-known car enthusiast, Benjamin Sloss to create a unique livery (below) for his Ferrari 458 Challenge Evo using state of the art AERO Paint film usingÃ‚Â Cobalt Blue AERO Liquid MetalÃ¢â€žÂ¢ on Speed Yellow livery. AERO had suggested me after working on previous designs for CJ Wilson Racing and Tyler McQuarrie Racing.

After running his Ferrari 458 Challenge car over the last year, Sloss and his wife, Christine, decided to purchase another 458 Challenge EVO for her to drive as well. With so much success on the first livery, Mr. and Mrs. Sloss decided to reverse the Cobalt Blue and Speed Yellow livery for their second Challenge car (below).

August 19, 2015 / 0 Comments / Category: News / Tags: 458, AERO, Ben Sloss, Challenge, Ferrari, livery design

New look for Team BMR in the BTCC

Warren Scott’s Team BMR have become a force to be reckoned with in recent years in the British Touring Car Championship. In 2015, they are running BTCC champions Jason Plato and Colin Turkington.

Warren reached out to me a couple of weeks ago for a livery to showcase their increased support from RCIB Insurance. With two weeks until the Snetterton round of BTCC and a packed schedule already in place, it was a super quick turn around on this design. A variety of concepts was initially submitted to the team before they selected this flowing design which was developed into the final concept, above.

With the artwork complete, Team BMR’s Vinyl supplied did a great job in wrapping four cars in 4-5 days. The final cars are close to the original concept with just some branding adjustments. The previous design was plain Black with a white rectangle on the bonnet (hood) for RCIB. Continue Reading

August 7, 2015 / 0 Comments / Category: News / Tags: BTCC, Colin Turkington, Irange, Jason Plato, livery design, Team BMR, VW

Compass360 Racing Livery Feature

I was fortunate to work with Canadian team, Compass360 Racing on their new Audi fleet of racecars. At the end of last year, I designed a new livery for the Audi S3, which blended the traditional Compass360 look, a retro inspired Audi Sport identity with the vibrant and cool paint films of AERO.

The livery design process has now been released in the dedicated Portfolio section.

More recently, Compass360 Racing have been preparing to make their TUDOR debut at Lime Rock Park with a new Audi R8 LMS. I collaborated on the livery with the team owner (and leading Creative Director), Karl Thomson.

July 23, 2015 / 0 Comments / Category: News / Tags: AERO, Audi, Audi R8, C360R, Compass360 Racing, IMSA, livery design, Tudor

Goodwood Greats : Gulf McLaren F1 GTR

The excellent Goodwood Road and Racing website featured the 1996 Gulf liveried GTC McLaren F1 GTR on their site in the lead up to this year’s Goodwood Festival of Speed. I designed this livery at the end of 1995, a development of another Gulf livery for the team the previous season.

They seem to like it. Read the article here

Imagery by Antony Fraser

July 10, 2015 / 0 Comments / Category: News / Tags: F1 GTR, FoS, Gulf, livery design, McLaren

ABD Fleet racing this weekend (updated: 5 wins!)

Anyone who uses my Racing Wall Planner (available here) will see this weekend (27-28 June) is one of the busiest of the year. There will be Eighteen of my liveries racing or rallying across North America!

Update: While not competing, there will also be at least one design on show in Europe, Ken Block’s ‘ Hoonicorn’ Mustang RTR which I styled the body. The Ueno Clinic and GTC Gulf McLaren F1 GTR’s may also be driiven up the hill over the weekend!

In addition, my Official IMSA Spotter Guide for Watkins Glen is also available to download at SpotterGuides.com

I’m very thankful to the teams, drivers and sponsors who have allowed me to work on something I love. Now, for a quick vacation!

June 25, 2015 / 0 Comments / Category: News / Tags: 2015, Liveries, livery design

‘It was 20 years ago today’…. 18 June 1995 – Ueno Clinic McLaren F1 GTR

As birthday boy Paul McCartney once sung, ‘It was 20 years ago today…’ McLaren won Le Mans overall on their debut with a production based car, albeit a very special one

I was very fortunate to have been working at McLaren at the time and through, my employment,Ã‚Â previous employer (Grand Prix Design – the design arm of 3001 International) and freelance commissions, I designed the majority of the McLaren F1 GTR liveries.

The easiest and quickest design is arguably one of the most well known….

June 18, 2015 / 0 Comments / Category: News / Tags: F1 GTR, livery design, McLaren, McLaren95, Ueno Clinic

New videos from Subaru, HPA Motorsports and Dean Kearney

A few of my clients have recently released cool videos of their race, rally and drift programs. Each carry one of my favourite 2015 liveries! Take a look

HPA Motorsports video features review of the Canadian Tire Motorsport Park rounds of the Pirelli World Challenge as the team get to grips with the new entries and the frustrations when a small dollar clip can take you our of a race. You can view Episode 1 here

The third season of Subaru’s Launch Control series is undersay and episode 2 features the debut of their Wide bodied WRX STi Sedan in Andy Blackmore Design livery.

Finally, Dean Kearney and video guru Stephen Brooks have released this video of their exploits in Round 2 of the Formula Drift series around Turn 10 at Road Atlanta.

June 15, 2015 / 0 Comments / Category: News / Tags: Dean Kearney, HPA Motorsports, Jetta, livery design, Subaru, Subaru USA, Vermont

Nissan pay homage with retro NISMO livery

ItÃ¢â‚¬â„¢s always great to get a livery commission, but thereÃ¢â‚¬â„¢s real responsibility in this game, particularly when thereÃ¢â‚¬â„¢s a brief that involves incorporating an iconic heritage livery.

Earlier this year such an opportunity arose when long standing client, Nissan and their NISMO brand asked me to assist in the design of an homage to the 1990 Nissan R90CK which Mark Blundell drove during his now legendary Pole lap at Le Mans 25 years ago (video below)

May 29, 2015 / 0 Comments / Category: News / Tags: 2015, GT-R LM, GTR-LM NISMO, livery design, Nismo, Nissan, R90CK

2015 Subaru WRX STi to make its Global Rallycross debut

Following on from my recent posts featuring my liveries for Subaru Rally Team USA for Rally America and in launch trim, the Global Rallycross Championship, the new 2015 WRX STi will make its debut in the opening round of the Red Bull Global Rallycorss Championship. The new cars have been extensively developed by VermontSportsCar with additional input from Subaru Tecnica International.

2014 X Games Rallycross Silver Medalist, Bucky Lasek will compete in the Orange accented machine, the hue has become his Subaru trademark in recent years….

May 28, 2015 / 0 Comments / Category: News / Tags: GRC, livery design, Subaru, Vermon, Vermont SportsCar, WRX STI

Refreshed Toyota 86-X for Fredric AasbÃƒÂ¸

Formula Drift winner,Ã‚Â Fredric AasbÃƒÂ¸, debuted his updated Toyota 86-X at Gatebil in Sweden this past weekend. This vehicle will be used by Fredric extensively in Europe and has been updated for 2015 to match the florescent orange vinyl from his 2014 Formula Drift Scion tC.

As featured here, back in 2014, Toyota Norway originally wanted to retain their corporate colour on the 86-X which was a shame, but after a year of seeing the more vibrant tC in the US, it appears Toyota has relented and the original vibrant vinyl now adorns the coupe.

You can follow Fredric’s exploits in North American, Europe and Asia on his website.

May 25, 2015 / 0 Comments / Category: News / Tags: Aasbo, Fredric Aasbo, Gatebil, livery design, Scion FR-S, Speedhunters, Toyota 86

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