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Automotive Art

Tim Layzell Automotive Art

I really love this work from young British artist Tim Layzell.

Tim was born into a family with a passionate interest in historic motor sport. While still in the pram he was taken to Vintage Sports Car Club events at famous venues like Silverstone, Prescott and Shelsley Walsh. He showed an early interest in drawing what he saw – sketching Bugattis, ERAs and Alfa Romeos at the age of 3 – and with family encouragement gradually developed his skills, working first in pastel and pencils before moving on to oils and acrylic paints.

In 1995, at the age of 13, Tim entered and won the British Racing Driver’s Club’s prestigious Young Motoring Artist Award, open to artists up to the age of 23.

Part of his prize was to have his winning paintings – of the winning C Type Jaguar during a pit stop at the 1953 Le Mans 24 Hours race, and Duncan Hamilton drifting through one of Silverstone’s fast corners in an HWM – exhibited alongside some of the World’s greatest motoring artists at that year’s Coys International Historic Festival at Silverstone.

This article was originally published on Motorsport Retro.

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Gear

Bell Release Star Classic Retro Helmet

The Bell Star helmet, launched in 1966, was the world’s first full-face motorsports helmet. That Bell would introduce a quantum technological leap forward like the full-face had come to be expected. After all, Bell invented the motorsports helmet in 1954, significantly upgraded the design with the addition of expanded polystyrene (EPS) foam a couple years later and quickly earned the admiration and support of the world’s top motorsport racers and enthusiasts.

Many famous drivers such as Jacky Ickx, Jackie Stewart, Niki Lauda, Gilles Villeneuve and many others have all worn the Bell Star to protect their head in the seventies.
Fast-forward 40-odd years to 2009 and Bell is again launching a helmet called Star Classic to the delight of true classic car enthusiasts and historic car drivers. The Star Classic reintroduces the same shape as the famous Bell Star from the seventies but is produced to the latest safety standard (Snell SA2005) using the most modern production techniques and high tech materials.

  • Famous Bell Star design as worn by famous F1 drivers in the seventies
  • High tech lightweight carbon-Kevlar® composite shell combined with multiple densities liner
  • Snell SA 2005 homologation for highest level of safety
  • Available with Hans® “post” clips fitted as original equipment and FIA 8858 label

Recommended Retail Price: euro € 570.00 + Tax euro € 660.00 + Tax (with Hans® clips)
Via: BellRacing.info

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Grand Prix Racing Ephemera

A New Movie About F1 from ‘68 – ‘82 to Hit Screens in 2011

A big budget film about F1, complete with Oscar winning writers and directors, is set for release in 2011.

Here is the blurb from Autosport

An officially sanctioned Formula 1 movie is set to hit the cinema screens early next year after a landmark deal was reached with the sport’s commercial chief Bernie Ecclestone.
Preparations are now well underway for the film, which will be an action documentary charting the history of the sport but focusing especially on the period between 1968 and 1982.
The film does not yet have an official name – but it has been decided the main focus will be on the period between Jim Clark‘s death at Hockenheim in 1968 and Gilles Villeneuve’s fatal accident at Zolder in 1982.
Oscar winning writer Mark Monroe said “We want to make a big action movie – do something that puts people in the car and makes them gasp at the speed of the thing. Then, tell the human stories all the while, so you can dip in and out of these human stories with these big action moments that are enhanced from archive footage”

We think it sounds great. It would be nice to think that finally there could be an authentic big budget film about F1.

Read the full story on Autosport here

Via: Motorsport Retro