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To my friends in the St. Louis Region SCCA,

It is with great pleasure that I announce that ShimmySideways Racing has a new Title Sponsor for our 2008 Time Attack campaign!  Our new title sponsor is Takata, a leading global supplier of automotive safety systems.  Takata has an excellent reputation in motorsports for their high quality Takata Multi Point Harnesses which are Green in color.  Our agreement with Takata will take our team to new heights in the sport of Time Attack as we challenge the best in the sport at Time Attack events nationwide.  Our team shall henceforth be known as Takata Time Attack and we invite you to add TakataTimeAttack.com to your bookmarks.  With the additional support of subsidiary sponsors P&L Motorsports, Nitto Tire, and Nukabe, the Takata Time Attack team will most certainly be one of the most competitive teams in the sport.

To welcome Takata as our new Title Sponsor, one of our first orders of business is to replace the livery on the ShimmySideways STi with graphics that promote Takata and their "Go For Green" slogan.  I am excited to announce that we have partnered with Turn 10, the developer of Microsoft's hit videogame racing series Forza Motorsport for Xbox 360, to conduct a contest to design the livery for our car.  The contest is already underway at ForzaMotorsport.net.  Visit the links below for my interview with Turn 10, the contest details, and the livery submissions.  If you own an Xbox 360 and a copy of Forza Motorsport 2, you could design the livery that appears on the ShimmySideways STi as it tours the nation in addition to winning some amazing prizes, including a Takata Multi Point Harness (MSRP $400).

Interview with James Elterman at ForzaMotorsport.net
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Livery Contest Details

Livery Contest Submissions

To increase the competitiveness of the ShimmySideways STi, it will be undergoing some significant upgrades under the direction of P&L Motorsports.  I invite you to visit TakataTimeAttack.com for updates on the progress.  We hope to return to the track by late June.

Thanks for your support!

Update June 9, 2007

And the winner of the livery contest is Andre Guerrieri!

 

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James Elterman
Takata Time Attack > TakataTimeAttack.com
Redline Time Attack , Super Lap Battle , NASA Time Trial, SCCA PDX

Now I wanna see the ShimmySideways STi as an unlockable car in Forza 3!

 

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Jianxiong Song
1996 BMW M3 - #1 STU

dang, that sounds like quite an accomplishment--congrats   We can all say we knew you when. 

 

although I always like this scheme better (you need green wheels too)

just looked at those submission so far, great stuff, but I like these two the best, esp the second one.

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y180/wiggibuilt/Hulk2.jpg

http://i270.photobucket.com/albums/jj88/RiujinZero_Forza/tak1.jpg

congrads! you know who to come to for new photos *wink*

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-James "Budski" Schmidt
'99 Subaru GC8 Impreza
old school RS crew
#20 STS

ack! I don't have mine connected yet. 

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Christopher
2006 STi STU "Ballz"

BUDSKi:

congrads! you know who to come to for new photos *wink*

You saw that the P&L money shot you staged with James got great placement in the article right?  It is an amazing photo!
 

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James Elterman
Takata Time Attack > TakataTimeAttack.com
Redline Time Attack , Super Lap Battle , NASA Time Trial, SCCA PDX

I actually lost a bit of soda when I read "Turn10" and then went to the Forza 2 page and there it was, staring me in the face.  This is amazing!  Great job!

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#12 STS 2007 Scion tC
#24 ITS/DSP 1991 Nissan 240SX

yea I saw! almost makes me want to go out and buy my own lighting gear..

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-James "Budski" Schmidt
'99 Subaru GC8 Impreza
old school RS crew
#20 STS

RX555:

just looked at those submission so far, great stuff, but I like these two the best, esp the second one.

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y180/wiggibuilt/Hulk2.jpg

http://i270.photobucket.com/albums/jj88/RiujinZero_Forza/tak1.jpg

I agree. The first one will look too muddy at speed. Bold clear graphics win everyday.

To make a final decision you need to show them to a group like flash cards, 1 or 2 sesonds per image in rapid order, then ask what design they remembered. That's the one you need.

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Bryan S.
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Overall I like the second one referenced above, although something about it seems like it belongs more on an Evo (aka Seamus Burke's rally car?).  Could just be the shade of green and the amount of green on Seamus' cars throughout the years.

I described an idea to James, I have no video game experience, so wouldn't know where to start to try to make one of those slick renderings, so I'll describe my idea.

The sponsor is a seat belt company (statement of the obvious), so their goal would be to see everyone using their seatbelt.  My thought is to have the larges image of the product on the largest visible panel on the car and that the image be something similar to what you would get if you took the driver's seat out of the car, strapped the driver into the seat, and photographed the driver wearing the harness zoomed in on the buckle.

The background color of the car would be the color of the racing suit (I don't know what the factory racing suit is, but hope it would be a contrasting color to the green of the belt).  I think I see white with green epaulettes on the photos above.  I'm thinking white for the background body color, possibly with stitching details to make the skin of the car look more like the fabric of a racing suit.  On the hood of the car, in as large as is possible, the buckle in silver.  The shoulder harnesses (16 inches wide) are interrupted by the windshield of the car, with the logo pads across the roof just above the doors on the left and right side.  The crotch belt (they actually call it a crotch belt, I'm not being course) would be in an inverted "V", diagonally to the lower left and right corners of the front bumper.  Down the sides, the waist belt, 16 inches wide, with the company name printed on the green stripe.  Basically, looking at the front of the car would be like looking into the lap of a driver wearing the company product.

So if you're soliciting votes for the current submissions, I change my mind to this one, only with WRB in place of the white.

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2289/2470279450_3b7a83c143_o.jpg

Or I like this one as is if you wanna paint your car white http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2284/2476569094_8b87b5edd4_o.jpg

Most of em so far seem pre-occupied with making the car all green and white, but seems to me it should have some blue in there.

RX555:

So if you're soliciting votes for the current submissions, I change my mind to this one, only with WRB in place of the white.

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2289/2470279450_3b7a83c143_o.jpg

Or I like this one as is if you wanna paint your car white http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2284/2476569094_8b87b5edd4_o.jpg

Most of em so far seem pre-occupied with making the car all green and white, but seems to me it should have some blue in there.

Painting the car is not out of the question.  In fact, I'm planning on it.  I like the green and white ones, but I would like to see a few more with WRB as the base.
 

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James Elterman
Takata Time Attack > TakataTimeAttack.com
Redline Time Attack , Super Lap Battle , NASA Time Trial, SCCA PDX

This would totally kick a$$ !!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Especially if you also had some stickers of dolphins that have Takata tattooed on their bodies.
 

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'05 Scooby STi
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'07 Audi A4 Quattro
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'90 Camry LE (4 sale)
'95 Ram 2500
Elterman isnt a better driver than me, he just posts faster times.

it'll be interesting to see what the finalist. 

some really great looking cars. 

Will you get to meet to person who wins? that'd be cool to get them entry to the time attack premier of their design.

another great sponsoring idea by james to get the word out about timeattack! Congrats! 

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1998 Chevy Metro 84HS
1984 VW Rabbit GTI 84EP

Very cool, James. I hope you'll remember us when you're famous!

I'll cast another vote for this one. Aside from looking good, I like the belt theme, so that it actually shows what you're promoting:

http://i270.photobucket.com/albums/jj88/RiujinZero_Forza/tak1.jpg

Will you be racing out West again this year?

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Reto
2005 Lotus Elise, SS

The winner of the contest was recently announced.  The full story is at ForzaMotorsport.net

 

 

 

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James Elterman
Takata Time Attack > TakataTimeAttack.com
Redline Time Attack , Super Lap Battle , NASA Time Trial, SCCA PDX

looks really good James!!!

Can't wait to see it in person!

Who ARE these guys? 

 

also it's sweet how the reflection is of the old cusco scheme  

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1998 Chevy Metro 84HS
1984 VW Rabbit GTI 84EP

I think James sold his old graphics that cheap Arshad.

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2002 Mercedes C230k, retired, 2005 Nationals STU DFL

1969 Beach Solo Vee and 1985 Lynx B Solo Vee