There’s not long left – just until 14th May – but that’s plenty of time to create a design for the Dunlop sponsored JMW Motorsport Ferrari F458 GT2 car that’s racing at the Le Mans 24 Hours in June – then tell the world about it so they can vote. All the information is on https://apps.facebook.com/designthedrive/. The car is currently a blank canvas – last seen racing at Silverstone in April.
Need ideas? Dunlop is having it’s 125th birthday this year and it’s the 90th Le Mans race so anniversaries could be the inspiration you need for a design to celebrate Dunlop’s heritage and high performance.
First prize includes seeing the art car unveiled at the pre-race test weekend at Le Mans on June 8th. The winner will also attend an awards dinner, see behind the scenes at the Le Mans test event, receive a pair of tickets to the Le Mans 24 Hours race itself and 1000 Euros. The three runners-up will each receive a canvas print of their design signed by the JMW drivers.
James Bailey, Director, European Motorsport Marketing and Communications
“This is the fifth year of the competition and we’re looking for a really outstanding design to help celebrate our birthday. We have a wide variety of designs already but there is plenty of scope for more. We also need voters to help us decide. We hope that Dunlop fans will take pride in choosing the look of the car for what is such an important event for us.”
More About The Competition
Motorsport and car fans, design students and artists (aged 16 years and over*) are invited to take part from across Europe. Each country will have a competition with four entries put forward to the regional final. The finalists are then reduced to four international winners, three being selected by the EU jury. The final place will be given to the most popular design.
Over 200,000 spectators and millions of TV viewers worldwide will see the end result which will be chosen partly by Facebook users and partly by the panel of judges. The two most popular entries, along with two designs selected by a jury for each of the participating countries, all win prizes for their designs and go through to the European final; the most popular entry overall receives an automatic place in the final four.
Entries can be submitted via the Facebook page, titled ‘Design the Drive’, from 18th March and the closing date for entries and voting is 14th May. The four winners from each country will be announced on 16th May with the winner and runners-up being notified on 20th May. The winning design will be seen for the first time on 8th June when it emerges from the pit-garage at Le Mans.
*UK and Benelux only
Source : Dunlop