AlexGRFan97's Obscure Racing Replicas

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Everyone's seen the blue-and-yellow Subaru rally car 100s of times. Marlboro and Rothmans are dead memes in the world of tobacco-themed liveries. The purpose of this thread is to document my adventures within the world of lesser-known racing liveries, and to receive suggestions on future ones that I may produce. Ideally, I'm looking for cars that have never been made in GT Sport before, and in the event they have, either not very well or worthy of my alternate version. They may not get as many downloads as xX_GTPLAYER_2007_Xx's chrome Veyron with lime green rims, but they certainly add variety to the Discover section.

Firstly, some old stuff to get this thread started.

[DTM] Macau-Guia 1991 - Masahiro Hasemi (Nissan Skyline GT-R)
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Raced by Hasemi as a one-off from his usual Unisia/Reebok scheme of the time, though it is flawed in many ways, as not only was this the first car I'd painted in GT Sport, this was the first car I'd painted in any game. Got gifted a PS4 for Christmas last year by my sister (my newest console until then was a PS2 I'd owned for 11 years) and to be honest I still wouldn't have bought the console with my own money. If the PS2 had 100 games I enjoyed, the PS4 only has 10. Anyway, I digress. Being my first work it does possess a few idiosyncrasies not present in my later works, namely the rims (hadn't bought anything from the Mileage Exchange until the week I decided to make this livery), bleedthrough (didn't know what the Angle/Depth controls did, didn't learn about camera focusing until the F1500-TA came out), a noticeable uneven-ness with regards to some of the decals, the lack of hood pins, and the absence of certain decals (didn't yet know how to make good vectors, and I still don't know what that green/yellow Chinese sponsor logo on the back bumper of this car is) but on the whole I'm proud of what came out.
[ETCC] Donington 500 1988 - Philippe Müller/Rüdi Schmidlin (Toyota Supra)
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My second replica livery, made months before the Mk3 Supra came out. Then of course when that car did come out I had to try it all over again. I also painted a slightly different version of this car for just the Mk4, based on the one Müller drove in the DTM a year later.
[BTCC] 1983 - Richard Longman Racing (Ford Escort RS Turbo)
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Interesting scheme, and the first one I'd painted that really made use of self-made vectors. Wish someone made a font based on the Royal Mail typeface though, would have made my job 100 times easier.
[Targa Tasmania] 2001 - Donut King Racing (Lamborghini Countach)
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Complete oddity this one, only discovered it as it came up in the search results when looking up the much more well-known Donut King Diablo that raced in the ANCC a mere couple of years later. Made many of the decals myself, and after painstakingly reproducing the rally plate from around 10 separate vector files, threw in the towel and used a default GT number type to make the race numbers, though admittedly it does look quite similar.
With that out the way, I now bring you my current pièce de résistance, finished a couple of days ago but waited until I got my retro BAR livery out of the way:

[WRC] 1000 Lakes 1995 - Tommi Mäkinen (Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution III)

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Tommi Mäkinen's one-off privateer Shell Mitsubishi from the 1995 1000 Lakes Rally, as the race was not a part of the WRC calendar at the time. Due to the WRC round rotation from 1994 to 1996, the 1995 Rally Finland was only part of the 2-litre World Cup (better known as Formula 2). An almost perfect representation, with minimal faults and consolations (i.e. the different model of Evo, adjusted license plate, Shell logo incorrectly mirrored on the rear quarter panel etc.) Many more photos of this car are available in my Photo thread.
 
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