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WTCC at Festival of Speed
Fast, frantic and captivating, the WTCC Art Car display added even more diversity to the Festival line-up in 2016.
Fast, frantic and captivating, the WTCC Art Car display added even more diversity to the Festival line-up in 2016.
World Touring Car Championship (WTCC)
The all-action FIA WTCC came to the Festival of Speed for the first time, with TC1 World Touring Cars on display. But it was an exhibition with a difference.
To celebrate the new partnership, the WTCC had three designers each creating the ultimate race car livery - with a live painting at the Festival of Speed on the Friday. WTCC Art Cars combined artistic design and motorsport in spectacular fashion.
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Volvo Polestar
Prince Carl Philip drives for Polestar Cyan Racing in the Scandinavian Touring Car Championship, is a Swedish prince and the only son of the Swedish King Carl XVI Gustaf. Alongside his duties for the Swedish crown and his racing programme, the Prince is an active designer with his company Bernadotte & Kylberg AB.
"We are humbled and excited to get this assignment. The concept behind the design is the Swedish flag. We wanted to drape the car in the Swedish colours and to use Cyan Racing as an element in the design like a track texture. We also wanted to create a sense of constant motion on the car but still keeping it simple. A lot of the design in motorsport is overly complicated and we wanted to keep the Scandinavian tradition of simplifying things. We are very much excited to see the car at Goodwood Festival of Speed,” Bernadotte & Kylberg
Honda
Honda has established a partnership with the Jean Graton Foundation that will result in the car – to be known as the Honda Art Car Jean Graton – carrying a unique livery inspired by – and in the style of – his most famous creation, Michel Vaillant.
In 1957 he created a fictional racing driver named Michel Vaillant, whose stories were initially published in ‘Tintin’, but gained their own outlet just two years later. It is the Michel Vaillant stories that are the inspiration for the Honda Art Car Jean Graton.
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Chevrolet Tag Heuer
TAG Heuer celebrates its partnership as the Official Timing Partner of the World Touring Car Championship at Goodwood Festival of Speed via an avant garde and innovative design concept that showcases their mastery of precision timekeeping and unparaelled heritage in motor racing. The #DontCrackUnderPressure motto perfectly aligns itself with this high octane motor sport which will be depicted in the racing red and black colours on the car. The design was brought to life by renowned graffiti artist Jim Vision and spray painted LIVE for spectators in the Formula 1 paddocks on Friday.
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