Aston Martin Racing and Gulf have unveiled the winner of their livery design competition. The design was created by Jonathan Wesley from Kettering in the UK and will adorn the #97 Vantage GTE.
Darren Turner, Stefan Mucke and Peter Dumbreck, drivers of the #97 Vantage GTE, selected Jonathan's design from the hundreds of entries received. He will now have the opportunity to be a VIP guest of Gulf to see his winning design compete in the 90th 24 Hours of Le Mans this weekend.
"I have been excited ever since I got the news that my design had been chosen. I loved the chance of being able to design a Gulf Aston Martin, but it's already such a classic livery that I was wondering what I could do," said Jonathan Wesle. "I was just sketching a few thoughts out and I liked the idea of the car being a different colour on both sides. I thought about the Gulf corporate colours - dark blue, light blue, orange and white - and I came up with the idea of 'daylight to dusk', which to me is the most exciting part of the race. So it moves from the white with the broad orange stripe dividing things to the dark blue of the night. The orange and blue lines represent the streaks that you often see in photos of the cars at night and the whole design sort of summed up the essence of Le Mans to me."
