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Nissan Le Mans and GT-R LM NISMO creative assets

At the end of May, Nissan Motorsport announced they will enter the 2015 FIA World Endurance Championship including Le Mans with a full-factory effort of two LM P1 cars. The car will be called the Nissan GT-R LM NISMO and will make its testing debut towards the end of the year. In addition to sponsorship of my Le Mans Spotter Guides, I was separately commissioned to create some supporting car illustrations showcasing Nissan’s current and future involvement.

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I produced a number of vehicle illustrations to support their media coverage for the announcement and for Le Mans.

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This is a great example of how illustrations can give a client a consistent message, free of different photo shoots and lighting challenges.  The images were utilized a number of times making them excellent value for Nissan.
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You can read more about this project in the dedicated post in my Portfolio Section.

 

 

 

 

 

June 14, 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: , , ,

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: , , , ,

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: , , , , , ,

TUDOR United SportsCar Championship Spotter Guide comissioned by IMSA

It is with great pleasure I can announce an agreement with IMSA to produce Spotter Guide art for the TUDOR United Sportscar Championship and the feeder IMSA Continental Tires Sports Car Challenge throughout 2014!

The guides will be included in a special fan guide which IMSA will be producing. This will be available online and also at the track.

The first guide for the Rolex24 is already in production with over 100cars to produce, 68 TUDOR and the leading 40 Continental cars. Teams have been contacted and liveries are now coming in. In addition I have created a number of liveries for teams this year. It is great to be continue the IMSA connection with the Spotter Guide series after six years producing the official American Le Mans Spotter Guides.

I will be at the ROAR Test in early January if any teams want to discuss their appearance in the new Spotter Guides.

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

IMSA.com launched with ABD illustrations

November 1st sees the launch of the new IMSA.com website, which will provide all the official series coverage for the Tudor United Sports Car Championship and Continental Tires Sports Car Challenge.

With my long association with the IMSA run American Le Mans Series, I was asked to provide illustrations for each style of car in the 2014 United Sports Car Championship to educate visitors of the class structure. Another example of how Spotter Guide Illustrations can be used for multiple projects.

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November 1, 2013 / 0 Comments / Category: News / Tags: , , , ,

Porsche guests receive their own Petit Le Mans Spotter Guide

This is a great example on how a team or sponsor can use the Spotter Guide artwork to help their VIP’s and guesta at the circuit, in addition to building brand awareness.

Porsche North American agency, Momentum Worldwide, contacted me last month to create a special ‘z-card’ Porsche Spotter Guide layout for their VIP’s at Petit Le Mans. Porsche has a huge presence at the blue riband events such as Petit Le Mans and have their own building constructed on top of the hill, above the pits.

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October 24, 2013 / 0 Comments / Category: News / Tags: , , , , , ,

Au revoir ALMS (+ wallpaper download)

I was recently commissioned to produce a 15th Anniversary graphic showcasing all the American Le Mans Champions by Delta Wing Racing Cars. The graphic was in the style of my ‘Spotter Guide’ series and included Audi, HPD, Lola and Panoz Championship winning cars.

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I was approached by legendary team boss, David Price, who I had created liveries for in the 1990’s for various McLaren F1 GTR and the first Panoz GTR-1. I had to draw some of the early chassis up from scratch including the Panoz LMP-1. Luckily Photographer, John Brooks came to the rescue with some great reference shots. DeltaWing Racing Cars Manager Partner Dr. Don Panoz founded the ALMS in 1998 and built it into one of the premier sports car racing series in the world. The series came to an end this past weekend and will merge with GRAND-AM to form the Tudor United SportsCar Championship in 2014.

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October 22, 2013 / 0 Comments / Category: News / Tags: , , , , ,

Spotter Guide latest releases

The Spotter Guide series is a very successful project with fan Spotter Guides which can be downloaded free of charge from my other site, SpotterGuides.com  As a number of people visit my site looking at these guides, this posts gives you a quick summary of the latest guides. Head over to SpotterGuides.com to download the actual guides.

  • Official ALMS Spotter Guides: Petit Le Mans
  • Nissan Spotter Guides – WEC: Fuji
  • Nissan Spotter Guides — ELMS: Paul Ricard
  • Nissan Spotter Guides – 24 Hours Le Mans

Formula One, DTM and the 2013 Dubai 24Hour guides are also available at www.spotterguides.com

Thanks for your support

October 11, 2013 / 0 Comments / Category: News / Tags: , , ,

The challenges facing Scott Elkins

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.

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August 13, 2013 / 0 Comments / Category: News, Opinion / Tags: , , , ,

Le Mans ‘Wallpaper’ launched

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

July 12, 2013 / 0 Comments / Category: News / Tags: , , ,

Introducing the Lewis Hamilton Pit Crew Spotter Guide!

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…

March 31, 2013 / 0 Comments / Category: News / Tags: , , ,

2013 Spotter Guide series

The Spotter Guide series for 2013 is now in full swing! We started the season with the 24 Hours of Dubai, followed by the first of our endurance guides, the Official American Le Mans Series Guide, which is updated prior to each race.

Nissan have also become a partner and their support has allowed me to create the World Endurance and European Le Mans Series Guides which will be released next week. Continue Reading

March 16, 2013 / 0 Comments / Category: News / Tags: , , , ,

Nissan – Racing and winning in 2012 Desktop Wallpaper

Following the huge success of the Spotter Guide series and more recently, the Desktop Wallpapers, I have produced an extensive Wallpaper showcasing the many Nissans which raced around the world and covered by DailySportsCar.com during 2012. A wide variety of vehicles from the Nissan 370Z in the Britcar 24Hours, to the Super GT racers and the revolutionary Nissan DeltaWing.

You can download the wallpaper here, on our sister site

December 15, 2012 / 0 Comments / Category: News / Tags: , ,

SpotterGuides.com Desktop Wallpaper now available

Following numerous requests I have produced a selection of desktop wallpapers featuring just the cars from the Spotter Guide series.

The first two wallpapers feature all the entries in the 2012 Le Mans 24 hours, in their finishing order while a second wallpaper features the Grid at the 2012 Petit Le Mans. You can download the wallpapers here.

November 30, 2012 / 0 Comments / Category: News / Tags: , , , ,

News – Spotter Guides a success with over 100,000 unique downloads

As the 2012 season comes to an end, we need to pass on our thanks to everyone who downloaded the Rolex 24, ALMS, WEC and Le Mans Spotter Guides this year. Our numbers are up and we were also fortunate to be sponsored by top racing brands including RadioLeMans, Simraceway, DailySportscar the ALMS and Eyecoon, sponsors of the Felbermayr Proton Porsche team.

We will be back with more Spotter Guides in 2013. Please contact me if you are interested in branding opportunities ensuring your brand in front of die-hard Motorsport fans. I am interested in producing a DTM and Grand-Am Spotter Guide

October 6, 2012 / 0 Comments / Category: News / Tags: