So I've been suffering a sense of feeling like I enter these competitions before I can really think out what it is I want to do. This competition really inspired me and I immediately saved up my credits to purchase the F1500 because it is such a wonderfully blank canvas. However, I mulled about different designs and finally settled on something that was simple, meant something to me, and would look really good.
Then I kept tinkering to death with it. Adjustments after adjustments that were not helped by the fact that I made a Silver and Black car, which then forced me to have to choose one. I kept putting it off and then got swept up by looooong shifts at work and then was a bit dashed and yet also emboldened to see Raphaele's design. Really, the backstory and everything "What if Dale went a different direction?" was similar. I figured I'd try to make a Rusty Wallace Genuine Draft or Davey Allison Havoline car instead, but my heart wasn't in it because I've always been a fan of Earnhardt Sr. I'd rather lose making something I loved and enjoy, than win (or maybe get more votes) making something else.
So instead I'd just like to take the time to point out that Chevrolet is, at least in my mind, often overlooked for it's prominence in Indycar. It's been around a long time in American open wheel racing and I really feel like they don't capitalize on that. When I think Chevy, I think NASCAR, Trans-Am, Drag Racing, etc. So it's a shame that they've never promoted their open wheel history more.
Thank you for your consideration!