Lamborghini Huracan Super Trofeo teaser

IMSA racer, Dr. Jim Norman will be racing a Lamborghini Huracan Super Trofeo when he isn’t being a doctor or racing the Park Place Porsche.  Jim shared this Work in Progress image of the Huracan on Facebook, so had to share it here. The idea is to make this stand out on the grid with the car body breaking up to expose vibrant  lava or blood.

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The design has evolved a little in the past few days, Stay tuned for an updated image.

Subaru Rally Team USA reveal 2015 Global Rallycross Livery

Following on from my 2015 Rally America livery for Vermont SportCar and Subaru Rally Team USA, the legendary team have revealed the livery for the 2015 Red Bull Global Rallycross and X Games entry for Bucky Lasek.

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Based on the Rally America livery, the design features Buddy’s now trademark Orange hues on the new 2015 WRX STi chassis and will make its debut at the 2015 New York Auto Show ahead of its competition debut at the end of May in For Lauderdale, FL.

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NISMO Spotter Guides for WEC, Le Mans and ELMS return for 2015

The NISMO Spotter Guide series returns for 2015 in April with expanded coverage starting from Silverstone on associate site SpotterGuides.com. Following a very successful 2014, the World Endurance Championship Spotter Guide will be joined by the European Le Mans Series Spotter Guide for each of the five rounds.

Produced by Andy Blackmore Design, each guide will be updated prior to each WEC and ELMS event.

Tthe ELMS guide is set to showcase the dominance of the Nissan P2 power plant with EVERY prototype except one using the Japanese engine! In the World Endurance Championship, over half of the P2 grid will also use the Nissan engine . These will be joined by the new P1 Nissan GT-R LM NISMO from Le Mans.

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Five designs in the 2015 Pirelli World Challenge

Andy Blackmore Design will feature heavily in this weekend’s opening rounds of the Pirelli World Challenge event at The Circuit of The Americas.

Six cars and five liveries will make their debut for Turner Motorsports, HPA Motorsports, Corey Fergus Racing and Bayshore Racing.

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2015 Racing Wall Planner is now live!

Long time coming as my motorsport livery work has kept me busy, but I’m pleased to announce the 2015 Racing Wall Planner is now available to download as a PDF, or new for 2015, a Print available on RedBubble.com The Wall Planner features all the main racing series around the world, grouped into motorsport genres.

Download the guide on the dedicated page on my other site SpotterGuides.com Feel free to spread the word!

Subaru Rally Team USA Reveals New Livery and Widebody on their 2015 Subaru WRX STI Rally Car

Excited to announce I have been working with Subaru USA Technical Partner, Vermont SportsCar, on the 2015 Subaru WRX STi Rally America Livery.
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I was originally brought on board by Vermont SportsCar, the team who run Subaru USA’s Rally and Global RallyCross (GRC) programs this time last year, to bring an existing concept to life for their previous generation GRC Car (below).

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With a new car and body kit for 2015, I have been working with Vermont on various designs. Very much as a collaboration between the team and another designer early on.

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Livery Design for Corey Fergus and AERO

AERO paint films and Race driver, Corey Fergus, recently approached me to design a livery for his new Motorsports Promotion Porsche Cayman which he will compete in the the Pirelli World Challenge. With AERO as a partner, it was important to showcase the paint films which they create as well as supply  other racers including Michael Shank Racing and  my designs for  CJ Wilson Mazda MX-5 (CTSC) and Tyler McQuarrie Racing’s Chevrolet Camaro (Formula Drift).
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HPA Unveil new Livery

I have recently been working with a local team, HPA Motorsport, one of the leading Volkswagen Audi Specialist in North America on the creative identity of their two car ‘TC’ class team in the 2015 Pirelli World Challenge.

With a desire to showcase their automotive parts and cutting edge SEMA winning car builds, I have created a livery which showcases the parts of their their VW Jetta GLi race-cars via a tear-away cutaway graphic.

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With the team being so local, I’ve been able to measure up the car closely and take over 400 reference photos in order to draw up the livery. The design takes the form of  a partial wrap with the original Metallic Blue paintwork surrounding the cutaway with a jagged graphic based loosely on their existing corporate identity.

It has been great working with HPA on the design and I believe we have come up with a distinctive design. One of the more complicated and challenging liveries to creates,but nothing I like better.

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Illustrations for Nissan GT-R LM NISMO Press Pack

Nissan have released their revolutionary weapon for the 24Hr of Le Mans and the World Endurance Championship as part of their Superbowl advert segment. I was fortunate to be commissioned to create some illustrations for their press pack which was created by Paul Ryan Media.

Using a selection of images and renders, but no scale elevations, I was tasked with creating side and plan view illustrations of their new GTR-LM P1 machine in a very tight deadline. Produced entirely in Adobe Illustrator, this vector drawing has been built up in sections so elements can be viewed or more importantly hidden by a click of the mouse.
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Decoding Ken Block’s Hoonicorn Mustang

I was recently interviewed by RXSpeed about our design and styling process of Ken Block’s Honnicorn Mustang RTR which was built in conjunction with Vaughn Gittin Jr’s Mustang RTR brand and AutoSport Dynamics (ASD).

You can read the in-depth article here.

I also have a detailed feature in the dedicated Portfolio section

Swisher Racing tease new BMW Z4 GT3 livery

Pirelli World Challenge racer, Bill Ziegler and Swisher Racing posted a preview of their new livery on Twitter this past weekend.

The Swisher Racing BMW Z4 GT3 will be prepared by Turner Motorsport and the new livery has been based off the Turner Blue and Yellow livery which I created last year. Turner Motorsport will be running two cars in the ‘PWC’ in addition to their TUDOR United SportsCar campaign.

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I had also previously worked with Swisher last year, assisting with bringing their livery idea to life and incorporating it into the GMG Racing team look (another livery I designed!), the team who ran their Audi R8LMS Swisher Racing entry in 2014.

New Saudi Falcons livery: Stand out on track with… Camouflage!

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The Saudi-Falcons return to the Porsche GT3 Challenge Middle East championship this weekend in Qatar, with 2012/3 ‘Silver’ Challenge Champion, Faisal Binladen driving a newly liveried Porsche 911 GT3 Cup car.

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The team has previously raced in multiple series including the 24Hr Dubai in a Chrome Green based livery, but for 2015, we decided to mix it up a little.

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2015 IMSA Spotter Guide now available

The Official Spotter Guide for the TUDOR United SportsCar Championship and Continental Tires Sports Car Challenge is now available on my other site, SpotterGuides.com, or from the event section of IMSA.com

For 2015, we are reverting to the traditional 11×17 Landscape Guide online. For the larger races this consists of three pages which will feature all the car, team and driver details to all the entries in the TUDOR Championship. New for 2015, we are also including the leading 40 entries for the Continental Tires SportsCar Challenge. When space allows we will also include the race schedule. The guide will be updated for each race and will be available on the Monday of race week.

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ModSpace returns for another title shot with CJ Wilson Racing

CJ Wilson Racing will continue in the 2015 Continental Tires SportsCar Challenge in 2015 with a unchanged livery for the #5 entry of Chad McCumbee and Stevan McAleer.

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Entering the last season of competition with this generation of MX-5, the roadster retains the livery design based off team owner and NBA Baseball star, CJ Wilson’s signature. Using AERO materials, the chrome Blue paint film works with a brushed Aluminum vinyl to tie in with partner Modspace.

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The design allows for multiple variations as seen on CJ Wilson’s fleet of MX-5 Cup cars in 2014 and the CTSC Total and Zoom Zoom liveries used by their #3 entry in 2014.

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BimmerWorld Racing enter fifth season with Andy Blackmore Design

BimmerWorld Racing will enter their fifth year running ‘Andy Blackmore Design’ liveries in the 2015 Continental Tires SportsCar Challenge. After almost a decade of racing with the E90 chassis, team owner James Clay has upgraded both his entries to their in-house design BMW 328i Turbocharged F30 chassis.

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Originally introduced during 2013, complete with an all-new BimmerWorld Racing look, the team have been developing the F30 chassis alongside their older E90 racers. This year, the two entries sport different liveries, but retain a collective look but using similar graphic devices and color-breaks.

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The #81 chassis retains the new BimmerWorld Racing look, with a tweak in coloration to tie-up with their new corporate graphics.

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New range of IMSA Shirts for 2015

With the 2015 IMSA Season now underway with the annual ‘ROAR’ Test at Daytona. IMSA have released the first of my shirt designs for 2015. These are now available at the IMSA merchandising truck at Daytona for the ROAR test. This print (on rear) features each of the full time chassis for 15 ( The Viper is hidden in this shot). Available in Adult and Youth sizes.

Two more circuit related shirts will be available from the Rolex 24, while a Spotter Guide shirt will be available from Sebring.

Update: These will be available at the IMSA online store, later in January

Compass 360 Livery for AERO Audi S3 Sedan

I was recently commissioned by AERO Advanced paint Technology and Compass 360 Racing (C360R), one of the leading teams in North American Touring Car Racing to livery their all new Audi S3 Sedan which will make its debut in the Continental Tires SportsCar Challenge at Sebring

C360R have a distinctive livery using a thick stripe of Florescent Red along the side of their car. The clients wanted to promote the Audi relationship so we developed a number of ideas influenced by Audi sport coloration and previous liveries including the current R18-etron look, all the way back to the original Audi 80 GTO IMSA Cars.  In the end we settled on a clean livery which incorporates both elements.

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Turner Motorsport confirms return to TUDOR Chamionship

Turner Motorsport have announced they will defend their GTD Class title in 2015, returning for a full season of the TUDOR United Sports Car Championship. After a challenging debut in the series in 2014, the team bounced back to win the GTD Class Championship. Turner were the first team worldwide to win a major championship with the BMW Z4 GT3.

For 2015, Turner will compete in the TUDOR series and the Pirelli World Challenge. More news on the PWC program and liveries soon.

My Portfolio showcases the design process behind the current Turner Motorsport Livery.

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2015 Spotter Guides!

I am excited to announce I will be working with IMSA again in 2015 creating the art for the official IMSA Spotter Guides.

Starting with the Rolex 24, IMSA will print a ‘Race Viewing Guide’ booklet available at the circuit as per 2014.

Online, we will be reverting back to the traditional 11×17 Poster Style Guide for you to download which should make things easier! The online guide will be released on spotterguides.com and imsa.com on 19th or 20th January and will be updated during the week as new drivers are announced.

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