Self conscious

I'm normally not too self conscious about my design usually, but when it come to drawing living things (human, animals...) and perspective, I sort of refuse to draw because I know the result will suck...

So, I basically never really improved my drawing skills in those 2 huge areas since I'm 12 year old...

I guess I have to start forcing myself to draw stuff even if the result will probably sucks during my first training sessions.

So, I'll probably start posting more weird (bad) looking character until I finally get better at it.

From roads to tracks, or tracks to roads : Take 2

I said that already in a previous post, will we see ever again a car manufacturer produce a car designed first for racing ?

Well, it's not annonce yet, but it seems like Ford is about to do that with its latest GT.

Rumored to race next year in Lemans for celebrating the 50th anniversary of their first win, they just unveiled the new Ford GT.

The first thing that strikes me, is the unforgiving narrowness of the thing, it look a bit strange from the top, but pretty sure it's extremely aero efficient. In relation to that, the interior look tinny and both the passenger and the driver are seated extremely close from one another, in the center of the car.

Other gimmicks on the car make it look more like a race car than anything else. Only a massive wing is missing to make it look like a proper "modern" racer.

Now that Lmp1 are far away from being normal car, it seems like a move to GT race is the "better" solution for Ford, even if it seems weird from them not to battle for the overall win.

From roads to tracks, or tracks to roads ?

When Mclaren introduced the 650s, they made it crystal clear that switching to a P1 like front design will provide a 30% increase for aero efficiancy. From that point it was also clear that a replacement from the 12C GT3 to a 650s GT3 was incoming.

Weither or not this change of front styling was solaly design for a better GT3 package and then applyed to a road car will be a lucky guess. Mostly it's a nice reminder of what those car company used to be. Their sole purpose 50 years ago was not how many road car they could sell, but how many wins they could get from various championship.

Road car were just a legal step you had to pass in order to homologate your race car. That, brought  legendary names like GTO and GT1.

From today's car company, Mclaren seams so far like the one with the closest and cleanest  bound from tracks to roads.

Will they one day, create first a GT3 car and then civilized it for homolagation purpose seams unlikly, but at least the 650s GT3 looks like something else.