Top Five of 2012: Retro Motorsport Gear

 
The Magic Racing Car Models of Alistair Brookman
“My name is Alistair Brookman and I make 1:12 scale fully hand-built model Grand Prix Ferraris.”
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Top Five of 2012: Motorsport Art

Retro Art: Ricardo Santos

These brilliant artworks come from Ricardo Santos; Portuguese art director and graphic designer, and one of the design team responsible for the World’s Best-Designed Newspaper, jornal i, as judged by the Society for News Design in 2010.
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Gear: Vintage Racing Today DVD

“Rather than put their race cars behind museum velvet ropes, these car owners have opted to race their historic cars the way they were designed and purposed…at over 100 mph around world- famous race tracks.”
Vintage …

The Magic Racing Car Models of Alistair Brookman

“My name is Alistair Brookman and I make 1:12 scale fully hand-built model Grand Prix Ferraris.”
From the humblest beginnings can come the most extraordinary things.

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The Awesome Automotive Art of Alex Wakefield

Motorsport is a very visual, evokative thing. All bright colours, beautiful shapes and kinetic energy.
And the most compelling motorsport art gets this. It aims to capture much more than a representative image of what happened …

Retro Gear: 8380 Laboratories’ Can-Am ’73 Unbesiegt

“If you can make black marks on a straight from the time you turn out of a corner until the braking point of the next turn, then you have enough power.”

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Illustrations: Freehand technical drawings by Peter Hutton

Check out these lovely illustrations by Peter Hutton. I found them over at Megadeluxe.com where Hutton explained how he does it.
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Video: The story of Phil Hill and his love of racing photography

Phil Hill, the 1961 Formula One World Champion also happened to be a very keen photographer.  In this video, his son, Derek Hill, explains the project to compile his father’s images and stories into a …