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.
Front running Continental Tires Sports Car Challenge Team, Bimmerworld Racing returned to the track in 2011 with a fresh new livery on their BMW E90 and E90 M3 race cars.
Bimmerworld owner, James Clay contracted Andy earlier in the month wanting a new look for the cars. The Bimmerworld graphic is distinctive with its Blue, Yellow and White branding and Bauhaus font. Andy always likes to incorporate the numbers into the design and a few concepts later, this design was born.
Bimmerworld have extended to a four car team this year, with two new M3 chassis in the GS class. The M3 has Blue hood with White and Yellow BMW Motorsports Style stripes while the regular E90 sedans in the ST class have white hoods.
The team started the season with a podium for John Capestro-DuBetsand Gregory Liefooghe finished 3rd in the Daytona 200 season opener.
The 2011 Team Need for Speed livery on the Schubert Motorsport BMW Z4 GT3 made its debut with a convincing win at the Dubai 24 hours in January. The reflective livery was a photographer favourite during the event and received much praise on Need for Speed and Speedhunter’s Facebook and Twitter outlets.
The livery features a unique wireframe graphic from the in-game car from Need for Speed Shift 2- Unleashed. The wireframe in the white areas is reflective, giving a unique look. More images and full details on Speedhunters’ Dubai coverage and on our BMW Z4 Livery Page..
Andy was fortunate to attend the 24 hours to asssit in coverage for Needforspeed.com and Speedhunters.com Andy provided a number of articles for Needforspeed.com and photo galleries which were viewed by over 2 million visitors. Andy was also interviewed for a special Podcast on Need for Speed.com
As an added bonus, The Team Need for Speed BMW Z4, driven by friend Tommy Milner, Edward Sandstrom, Claudia Hurtgen and Augusto Farfus won the event by 3 laps.
You can view Andy’s reports here:
The annual Speedhunters Cars of the Year Voting has recently taken place on Speedhunters.com, the car culture blog of video game, Need for Speed.
Voted by readers, two cars designed by Andy Blackmore Design won awards. The Need for Speed Mustang RTR-X, designed with Vaughn Gittin Jr won the Demo car of the Year.
Andy was also responsible for the livery of the Mad Mike Mazda RX-8 which won Pro-Drift Car of the Year. This comes shortly after the RX8 also won ‘Best looking Formula Drift car’ voted by the series and important individuals in the genre.
Congratulations to Vaughn, Mike Whidett and to Twins Turbo, who built both cars!
Andy recently published his Photos of the Year on Speedhunters.
As a part-time contributor to Speedhunters.com, the leading Car Culture website, Andy has attended a number of events during 2010 including Formula Drift, American Le Mans Series, SEMA and Le Mans.
All the contributors were asked to pick their photos of the year. You can view Andy’s images HERE!
As the racing season comes to a close, it has been a great season for Andy Blackmore Design, partnering with Champions on both sides of the Atlantic
Congratulations go to the following partners.
CONGRATULATIONS!
Andy recently created a quick livery for SPEED.com to announce Lotus’ Bodykit and Engiine program for the new 2012 Indycar.
The IZOD Indycar series liked the art so much, they also used the image. The Image was used by multiple news outlets including Autosport and Racer.
Click here for the article on IndyCar.com, SPEED.com and Racer.com
The Team Need for Speed Mustang RTR-X which Andy designed with Vaughn Gittin Jr was unveiled earlier this week on the Ford Stand at the SEMA Show. The car looks stunning in the flesh.
Twins Turbo and Steen Chassis did an amazing job bring Andy and Jr’s vision to reality. AutoGuide.com said it was “Definitive showstopper”. The launch took place immediately after the Ford press conference. There were more people waiting by the covered RTR-X than at the main conference.
You can follow the build process and the debut of the RTR-X on Speedhunters and on our own detailed RTR-X post
The Team Need for Speed/Red Bull Mazda RX-8, which Mad Mike Whiddett campaigned in the 2010 Formula Drift Championship won the ‘Best looking Car’ Award at the season banquet. The award was presented following voting by drivers, teams and industry figures.
Andy worked with Mike on the livery, a variation of Andy’s BMW Z4 design for Team Need for Speed to include Mike’s Red Bull sponsorship. It was quite a challenge for Andy to incorporate both brands on the car. The look of the car is also helped by its low stance and its cool wheels which Mike and Twins Turbo designed.
Andy has recently been working with SPEED.com on a design study for the 2012 GRAND-AM Cars. The series has been working with teams for new ideas to improve the look of Grand-Am cars via a chassis update.
With his vehicle styling experience at McLaren, Yamaha, KWM, Arena and Electronic Arts, Andy was commissioned by SPEED.com to work on some proposals.
You can read the full article at SPEED.com and all read more about the actual designs HERE including a Corvette Version, showing how a GRAND-AM Car with more extreme styling. The designs also featured on The Speed Report on SPEED TV.
The GRAND-AM Design was well received and spread around the net quickly, creating quite a buzz on Facebook, Twitter and forums such as Ten-Tenths.com, to the official GRAND-AM and SPEED.com forums, the study has been positively received.
Endurance-Info.com and DailySportsCar.com (subscription)have also run stories on the study.
Grand Am Continental Tires Challenge entrant, Riley Racing commissioned Andy Blackmore for a new livery for their title sponsor, PitchEngine, a PR and media release website.
The top half of the car remains Black, while the bottom half has an all-new look. The livery on Riley-Racing’s Mazda RX-8, will make its debut in September.
The 24 Hours of Le Mans Spotter Guide, sponsored by Nissan Sportscars(UK) is the latest edition to the 2010 range of Guides and is available as a free download at SpotterGuides.com.
The guide joins the very successful American Le Mans Series Official Spotters Guide which is updated prior to each race and the Formula Drift and British Touring Car Guides, which was released earlier this season.
The guides are a great marketing tool for race fans, at the circuit or at the race track. Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca, Utah GP, Team Dynamics and Need for Speed have all commissioned special versions of the guide in the past, while premium sponsors including Nissan UK, SPEED TV, The American Le Mans Series and Radio Le mans have partnered on various guides.
The ALMS guides also appears on the official site (Race hub section) and is available as a poster and on T-shirts at ALMS races.
You can view all the Spotter Guides HERE.
Andy recently published an article on Speedhunters about the livery process for the Team Need for Speed collective of cars racing this year. You can read the full article here
The Mazda and Nissan race in Formula Drift, while the BMW Z4 GT3 races in FiA GT3 and various VLN races including the Nurburgring 24 hours.
Andy has been working with Formula Drift race winner, Vaughn Gittin Jr, on this exciting new build over the past few months. The build is based off a 1969 Mustang Boss and will be built from a new Chassis, from scratch.
The car will make its debut at SEMA 2010, but you can follow the entire build process including livery voting here at Speedhunters.com.
The outline of the project was presented to Speedhunters earlier this month before a livery vote, showing a variety of designs. The Speedhunters voted in their thousands, literally and luckily our favourite design won. A Dark grey metallic base with Matt Grey elements and Sonic Green highlights. The Green is sure to be controversial, but the last thing we want to create is a bland design. This needs to stand out.
The original post on Speedhunters can be viewed here, while a summary of the build and design can be read here, on Andy Blackmore Design.
Thanks to Vaughn and Rod Chong for the opportunity to work on this unique project.
Andy was recently commissioned by Ryan Gates to design a new livery for his Evo X, one of the fastest Evo X’s in the world. Making over 700bhp, Ryan and his machine achieved a 100% win rate in the Redline Series in 2009.
The distinctive livery features hundreds of small Mitsubishi Diamond logos, used as a transitional device from Blue to White, angled across the car using a Matt Vinyl Wrap.
This is just a Work in progress shot as a few of the logos still need to be applied, but you can view more images on Ryan’s Flickr site.