When I saw the theme, I knew I had to try something for this contest. I just wasn't sure what to do though. There were plenty of livery swaps I thought of, but I don't have the time or skills to replicate more intricate real-life liveries. I thought of some of the possible weird/cursed sponsorship combinations, but nothing that popped into my head sounded good. I honed in on the "cursed" part and thought "what would the high-class, sophisticated, purist hate seeing put on a nice car?" and then I suddenly remembered the whole thing with deadmau5 and his 458 in 2014. For those unaware, he dubbed it the "Purrari" and put Nyan Cat on the car, as well as replacing the Ferrari logos with cat logos and the Ferrari text logos with Purrari logos. Ferrari didn't take too kindly to the logo replacement and sued him.
So, given that the manufacturer, the "most pure" of the purists since they made it, was mad at this, I decided to go this route. This idea planted in my head, and I decided to create a wild scenario of: "What if, instead of suing deadmau5, Ferrari whole-heartedly embraced it, so much so that they turned the Purrari into the official livery of the AFCorse GTE Pro 458? and allowed it to be a deadmau5 sponsored car?"
The livery itself isn't based on any one AFCorse #51 livery. I only had 488 GTE stripe patterns available for use (my vector skills aren't good enough to make my own 458 ones), and I referred to the sponsors seen on various liveries seen on the AFCorse #51 GTE car throughout its life as a 458 GT2 to come up with the final design.