How AO Racing created “Sketchy”, the latest dinosaur Porsche fan favourite

Motorsport photo Finding AO Racing on the starting grid of the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship is easy: Just go the biggest crowd. Albeit only in its fourth year, Rexy and her pink sister Roxy have captured the hearts of millions of fans. At Laguna Seca, it was time to welcome the latest creation from PJ Hyett and Gunnar Jeanette: Sketchy, a character with a white base and frazzling lines that represent the long process of the inception of Rexy.

#77 AO Racing: Nick Tandy, Harry King, #23 ASTON MARTIN THOR Team: Ross Gunn, Roman De Angelis #77 AO Racing: Nick Tandy, Harry King, #23 ASTON MARTIN THOR Team: Ross Gunn, Roman De Angelis With IMSA announcing throwback liveries for the Laguna Seca race, AO Racing initially found itself in trouble. “With us being a team that's only been around for three years, we didn't have our own historical livery to go back to,” Gunnar Jeanette, team manager and co-founder of AO Racing, told Motorsport. com.

“So we had the idea of doing the first Sketch on the napkin, and we just thought it would be a fun thing for the fans to see and get a new character or the origin story of Rexy. ” “As easy as it looks to have just scribbles, it was actually very hard to come up with something that looked as good as this does. And so we spent a lot of time making sure that the actual execution of the car and how it came out is as good as it is.

” The livery is only the beginning #77 AO Racing: Nick Tandy, Harry King #77 AO Racing: Nick Tandy, Harry King Jeanette points out that Sketchy doesn’t mean it is the first-ever imagined design of Rexy, but rather a new character. “It went through the same process of sketched out designs as Rexy did. ” And the livery is only the beginning: “You can put a livery on a car, but it's very different creating an actual character and a storyline that changes with what happens on track.