{"id":15047,"date":"2023-02-17T07:55:00","date_gmt":"2023-02-17T10:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.w-143.com\/?page_id=15047"},"modified":"2023-02-24T08:05:51","modified_gmt":"2023-02-24T11:05:51","slug":"oreca-07-24-spark","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.w-143.com\/index.php\/oreca-07-24-spark\/","title":{"rendered":"ORECA 07 #24 – Spark"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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2021 ORECA 07 #24<\/strong>\nPilots: G. Aubry, P. Kelly, S. Trummer\nTeam: PR1 Motorsports Mathiasen<\/em>\nRace: DNF (LMP2 class) at Le Mans in 2021<\/strong>\nSpark - S8240 (resin)<\/pre>\n\n\n\n
Published 02\/17\/23<\/p>\n\n\n\n
At first glance, art doesn\u2019t have much in common with motorsports. Or does it? Well, if you think about an art piece representing a race, or a pilot or even a car, then you can find a relation. Specifically speaking about car races, there are many fantastic works out there. For instance, Czech artist V\u00e1clav Zapadl\u00edk made beautiful paintings, especially depicting the Golden Age<\/a> of Grand Prix. Another artist that I really like is British Stuart Booth<\/a>. In fact, there are quite a few artists that produce terrific representations of cars, races or even pilots. And you can find many mediums for their creations, from oil paintings to photography and even (huge!) sculptures<\/a>. All right then, therefore motorsports and cars are a theme for an art piece. But what about a race car per se <\/em>as an art work?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Nowadays, the ORECA 07 is THE most common race car at La Sarthe.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
In essence, that would be what we now understand as an \u201cart car\u201d. And it all began in 1971, with a Porsche 917LH. More specifically, with the \u201cHippie 917\u201d<\/a>. Martini Racing didn\u2019t want their 917 to look \u201cnormal\u201d, so they asked Anatole Lapine to make it stand out. Lapine, Porsche\u2019s newly hired designer, painted the car in period-correct psychedelic colors. Though the 917LH #3 finished in second place overall, it is almost more famous than the winning 917K #23. Just because of the paint scheme. The following year, Porsche pulled another stunt, with the famous Pink Pig<\/a>. Yet, if legend is correct, Luigi Rossi di Montelera hated the car. Montelera (\u201cCount Rossi\u201d), manager of Martini & Rossi and the sponsor of the Porsche Martini Racing Team, prohibited adding the Martini logo to the car. So Lapine, as a joke, painted the car as pork cuts. A joke that became art.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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I doubt Anatole Lapine ever imagined his “artistic license” could make an impact 30 years later.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
A few short years later, Frenchman Herv\u00e9 Poulain comes into this story. A former car pilot and at the time an art auctioneer, he decided to combine art and racing. He then commissioned American sculptor and painter Alexander Calder to paint his car. Calder transformed a regular BMW CSL 3.0 into the famous \u201cCalder BMW\u201d<\/a>. Without a doubt, the Calder BMW became the most famous of all the Le Mans art cars. And more importantly, it started the tradition of art cars at La Sarthe. Fast forward to 2021, and you have PR1\/Mathiasen Motorsports\u2019s ORECA 07 #24. Unfortunately however, even with a beautiful  livery signed by artist Laurent Minguet, this 07 #24 wasn\u2019t lucky at Le Mans. The car abandoned the race on the 267th lap with electrical problems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Cool looks aside, ORECA 07 #24 didn’t last the race.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
As I said elsewhere, I think that the ORECA 07 is more prolific than the Porsche GT3 at La Sarthe. Therefore, it\u2019s a model that is somewhat blas\u00e9 <\/em>for many collectors, where variety is important. And yes, I agree with that, however this ORECA 07 #24 is an art car<\/em><\/a>. And for me that translates to must buy. In scale, as expected, Spark aced the model, and it looks terrific. Great model + art car = win, so we\u2019re done, right? Nah, this story doesn\u2019t end here\u2026 Come back next week<\/a> for a little more on art cars \ud83d\ude09.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
2021 ORECA 07 #24 Pilots: G. Aubry, P. Kelly, S. Trummer Team: PR1 Motorsports Mathiasen Race: DNF (LMP2 class) at Le Mans in 2021 Spark – S8240 (resin) Published 02\/17\/23 At first glance, art doesn\u2019t have much in common with motorsports. Or does it? Well, if you think about an art piece representing a race, … Continue reading “ORECA 07 #24 – Spark”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-15047","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.w-143.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/15047","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.w-143.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.w-143.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.w-143.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.w-143.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15047"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.w-143.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/15047\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15405,"href":"https:\/\/www.w-143.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/15047\/revisions\/15405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.w-143.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}