7:57, Nurburgring Nordschleife lap time.


A client wanted to create a foil cut-out graphic to commemorate his achievement. The time of 7 minutes and 57 seconds at Nurburgring Nordschleife track. The achievement is quite remarkable and is deserving some attention.

"The Nurburgring is a world famous motorsport race track, located near the Eifel Mountains at the medieval village of Nurburg, Germany. It is considered by many race drivers and enthusiasts to be the most demanding circuit in the world." (source)

The client's Nissan GTR is of a black colour, so after various ideas and design directions, choosing a style, the creation of a final design, several colour variations were in consideration:

The last version was given a go. And after minor tweaks and adjustments here is the final version of a graphics that was used on the car:

The graphics was cut out on using Mimaki cutting plotter on a Multifix foil. Two colours of foil were used: red and white. Below is the visualisation of an installed graphics on a random Nissan GTR. (click on the image for a bigger version)

Sources:
http://nurburgringnordschleife.com
http://www.nuerburgring.de/home.324.0.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N%C3%BCrburgring
http://www.ausmotive.com/2009/01/08/nissan-gt-r-spec-v-details-announced...

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