Vulcan Racing Squadron Showcase
A few more 'factory' liveries for my fictional car manufacturer.
First up is a GT3/GTE-style scheme based on the Nissan GT-R. Kept a similar theme and colour palette to my 919 HP-4 livery (light green base with contrasting decals), but brought over some secondary/tertiary sponsor decals from an earlier Castrol GT-R scheme and experimented with a metallic finish for the base. Did initially consider making the black parts dark green to match the HP-4, but felt they wouldn't have had stood out as well.
Next is a Gr.4-based concept for a touring car livery. The backstory is that Vulcan have been competing on and off in the BTCC since its inception, and have been long-time competitors since the NGTC regulations were first introduced. While Vulcan Racing Squadron usually do a majority of their motorsport programmes in-house, their return to the BTCC saw Prodrive being chosen to run the team with full manufacturer support. For the first few seasons, a D-segment liftback was used with tremendous success, though two generations of a C-segment saloon have since succeeded it. While I initially considered using the Lancer Evo as a base, I ultimately felt that the Mazda Atenza Gr.4 looked better as a quasi-NGTC car.
I actually started working on this livery before the GT-R, but decided to get the GT-R done first so I could develop it a bit more. Aside from general tweaks to the colours, decals and sponsor placements, one major issue I had was that the front doors looked empty with the plain 'Vulcan' text at the bottom, which lead me to think about adding an extra primary sponsor to better fill the space.
Eventually, I settled upon Morrisons - a well-known UK supermarket chain - as they hadn't been featured in a real-life racing livery (at least to my knowledge) and I like the desserts they make. The text for their regular logo was also a good match for the base colour, though I couldn't find a version with white text and yellow leaves. At one stage, I experimented with adding an extra white panel to show the unaltered logo clearly, though in the end I kept the full green bands and turned the logos all white. To emphasise the Morrisons backing, however, I recoloured the top band, spoiler lip and wheels into a similar shade of yellow as the leaves; the bottom white band was recoloured green for simplicity's sake.
Finally, we have a second GT3 livery, visualising a racing version of one of Vulcan's flagship performance cars, the Venator.
As clearly seen with the base car, the Venator is meant to be the company's equivalent to the Ford Mustang and other similarly-sized coupes. The latest generation model combines a clean, muscular fastback design with cutting-edge technology, available with turbocharged 4-cylinder, V6 and V8 engines as well as a Polestar 1-rivalling V6 hybrid. For the 2020 season, Vulcan Racing Squadron have prepared two customer race cars based on the Venator for the GT3 and GT4 categories. The GT3 (represented here) uses a twin-turbo V8 producing around 500-600bhp.
Opted this time around to use a metallic silver grey as the base (something which I briefly considered doing for the GT-R) and add red and black decals around the Mustang's lights/grille/boot panel to simulate those for the Venator. Main points of reference included the factory Bentley Continental and Aston Martin Vantage GT3 liveries; other than the sun strip and tyre stickers, no secondary/tertiary sponsors were added as I wanted to give a clean 'launch livery' vibe.
As well as these, I have also gone ahead and updated my suit, helmet and 919 'HP-4' liveries with newer versions of the Vulcan 'wings' logo. Links for all designs can be found below.
Links:
Vulcan Racing Squadron GT3.
Vulcan Morrisons BTCC #92.
Vulcan Venator GT3 2020.
Vulcan Racing Squadron HP-4 1.1.
Vulcan Racing Squadron 2020 1.1 (suit).
Vulcan Racing Squadron 2020 1.1 (helmet).