Seven striking Indigenous Supercars liveries
Red Bull Ampol Racing and Shell V-Power Racing Team have spearheaded the Indigenous livery efforts for this weekend’s Merlin Darwin Triple Crown.
The powerhouse teams have this week taken the covers off special liveries for Supercars’ return to the Northern Territory.
The two striking schemes are the latest efforts in a series of partnerships between teams and the indigenous community.
2008: Triple Eight’s Red Dust
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Triple Eight Race Engineering has been the most prolific team when it comes to Indigenous liveries.
In 2008, the teams’s fluorescent red Vodafone hues were replaced by dark reds of the work of local artist Raymond Walters Japanangka.
The work, in support of the Red Dust Role Models program, featured on both cars for the weekend. However, neither driver featured on the podium.
2016: Lowndes’ blue rocket
Eight years later, Triple Eight celebrating major sponsor Caltex's partnership with the Clontarf Foundation.
Craig Lowndes’ TeamVortex entry featured a striking blue scheme designed by local student and artist Daniel Thomson.
Teenage Thomson celebrating his family’s love of fishing in the design, with Triple Eight accompanying the livery with a race suit and crew shirts.
2017: BJR and Holden support diversity
In 2017, Holden and Brad Jones Racing combined to showcase its 'Supporting Diversity' messages on Nick Percat’s #8 Commodore at three events.
For the Darwin event, Percat’s car featured a design by Rosebery Middle School student Aimee May, who submitted her work through the Girls Academy of Australia.
Percat made the livery count, scoring a podium on the Saturday, his first trophy for BJR.
2017: Blue scheme for GRM
Garry Rogers Motorsport used the work of artist Hazel Cowburn to promote sponsor Wilson Security's Reconciliation Action Plan program.
James Moffat’s ninth on the Saturday was the best result of the weekend across both cars.
2018: GRM goes red
For the second year running, GRM rolled out a livery inspired by Cowburn’s art.
The livery ran on both cars for the Darwin, Townsville, and Queensland Raceway rounds, to align with NAIDOC Week.
Garth Tander scored finishes of fifth and seventh in Darwin.
2021: DJR’s striking look
Earlier this week, the Shell V-Power Racing Team unveiled its Indigenous livery dedicated to Racing Together.
Racing Together was designed to give teenage Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders an opportunity to pursue a career in motorsport.
Braedyn Cidoni, the designer of the team's livery, is a Racing Together team member. His work was inspired by artist Allison Millcock's 'Turtles Crossing Cultures’.
Both Anton De Pasquale and Will Davison’s cars will campaign the striking scheme.
2021: Triple Eight and Clontarf again join forces
On Thursday morning, Red Bull Ampol Racing unveiled its special Indigenous livery, which was designed by students of the Clontarf Foundation’s Nightcliff Academy in Darwin.
The artwork features colour circles of the Aboriginal flag, and is skippered by a blue and white path through the middle of the design.
The path symbolises a connection to the theme of NAIDOC and new beginnings.
The Repco Supercars Championship field will return to the Northern Territory this weekend for the Merlin Darwin Triple Crown. Tickets are available here.
The event will be broadcast live on Foxtel and will be streamed on Kayo, and will be broadcast live and free on Seven.
