787B livery by Spicy_Nikorasu #Mazdaspeed #NeverGiveUp #Renown
Pink Pig livery by Stumacher962 #Porsche #LeMans #Gr3
A mix of 2 Le Mans conquering legends, the #55 Mazda 787B and the #92 Porsche 911 RSR "Pink Pig". Double your chances of victory with 2 iconic liveries in 1!
Mazda's renowned 787B (get it?) may have been the first Japanese car to win the 24 Hours of Le Mans outright, but did you know that its 5 speed dog leg gearbox was actually a Porsche item? Seeing the dotted lines on the Pink Pig livery, I couldn't help but to notice how similar those are to the 787B's Renown livery as well, and so I got to wondering: what if clothing brand Renown were still in business, and sponsored a 911 RSR in modern times, taking cues from Porsche's infamous Pink Pig livery?
The original colour scheme is a lot more monochromatic, being much more faithful to the Pink Pig's colour scheme, featuring fleshy pink base paint strewn with ham red lines, with many hollowed out logos in black. The alternate palette car introduces big splashes of colour to much more closely resemble the 787B, most notably with a flashier shade of green to contrast the existing pink, along with the coloured in logos as found on the 787B, as well as golden wheels.
The 911 RSR is one of the more frustrating cars to do liveries on. It's... just not a good looking car, for starters. That, plus the strict number board placements, coupled with the position lights on the doors, clog up the car's otherwise prime estate for liveries, and I had to spend much time rearranging the dotted lines to make the Renown livery look somewhat right on the Porsche. There's also an ultra annoying decal distortion area where the NACA duct is on the bonnet, which to my knowledge, cannot be circumvented. Add on the fact that the Renown livery is deceptively difficult to get to look right (or maybe I'm just not that good), the whole project was rather nightmarish from start to finish.
In rearranging the dotted lines of the 911, I've also had to look up which body parts written in German meant! Not every day a livery taught me some words in a foreign language!
R92CP Livery by demersal-boom4 #R92CP #Nissan #Itariya
Given how "Itariya" and "Italia" sound almost identical, I'm very surprised no one had thought to do an Itariya livery on a Ferrari 458 Italia before!
Japanese fashion brand Itariya might not be a familiar name in the world of motorsports, but an R92CP wearing an Itariya livery did win the 1993 Suzuka 1,000km Endurance Race. Super annoyingly, real life photos of that particular car are almost impossible to come across, with most of Google search results being scale models of said car, making an exact replica questionable. Thankfully though, this 458 is simply inspired by that car, because trying to force a Group C prototype skin onto a GT3 car simply doesn't work. Plus, would Ferrari let its cars wear any rubber not by Pirelli?
The car lacks a bit of pizzazz to look like an authentic racing Ferrari to me, but if you're amused by my childish brain, you're free to take it, edit it, and use it however you wish.