TRIPLE Eight Race Engineering has been wowed by the Indigenous Round livery designed by Clontarf Academy student Brock Compton.
Compton’s artwork is entitled ‘The Spirit of the Driver’, specially created to depict the life of a Red Bull Ampol Racing driver (full explanation below).
Triple Eight will release limited edition Darwin Triple Crown merchandise for sale, with a percentage of proceeds going to the Clontarf Foundation.
An auction of both Broc Feeney and Shane van Gisbergen’s Darwin race suits will raise further funds for the charity organisation.
“I love the artwork on the car, it looks awesome,” said #88 driver Feeney.
“I always like change; the matte, the white, it’s come together well – it looks pretty damn cool.
“I just remember last year how special it was showing the kids through the design on the car.
“You remind yourself how cool it is for those guys to come in and experience what’s normal for us. I’m looking forward to having them join us up in Darwin for the race weekend.
“The student who has designed this year’s artwork is also named Brock so that’s a cool coincidence. The story behind the artwork which he’s created is pretty special – hearing him and the other students talk through the artwork was really interesting.”
Van Gisbergen added: “It’s a great thing what Ampol and the Clontarf Foundation do for these young kids and then to give them the opportunity to design a livery is a pretty incredible thing.
“To hear from the students about the story of the artwork, really helped me to get a better understanding of their story – there was a lot more behind it than I initially thought.
“Learning what all the elements represent was really cool to get a full understanding of what it all means as a whole. There is a lot more to the story than it looks like, but once you understand it, it’s pretty cool.
“The students are joining us up in Darwin which will be great. We’ll take them into the garage, and they’ll come to the race, and get to hear the cars live. Having them there to see it, breathe it, hear it and be a part of what they’ve created is going to be cool.”
Team principal Jamie Whincup said he was “truly blown away” by the livery.
“I want to acknowledge the guys and girls back at Triple Eight for their hard work putting three spectacular cars together,” he said.
“It certainly isn’t an easy task to prepare and re-wrap three cars and their respective spare panels in a short period of time following our mid-season test day, but in typical Triple Eight style, they nailed the brief.”
The story behind the livery: The Spirit of the Driver
My name is Brock Compton, I am a proud Warumungu man and member of the Ambrose Treacy College Clontarf Academy.
I am the artist behind “The Spirit of the Driver” artwork. This artwork was created to describe and show the life of a Red Bull Ampol Racing driver.
The kangaroo tracks placed around the design represent the different paths and tracks the driver has been on, experienced, the new opportunities, learning curves and the successfulness of the driver coming from young into the big league of Supercars.
The first ring with all of the circulating dots are challenges that have been overcome, in the early days of the driver representing that he faced challenges and difficulties.
With the pathway tracking to the right ring representing his advancement and achievements by becoming a professional driver.
The two meeting circles split around the design are they representation of the driver and their families.
The reasoning for the family meeting circles being connected to the pathways is to show the belief and encouragement given from the families to help the driver to where he is today.
Men and women picture in the bottom of the design are the followers and supporters of Red Bull Ampol Racing.
The configurative amount of dots around the design represent the spirit of the driver. These dots are what bring everything together, from the family, to the car and the track.
