Forza Motorsport – My Cars – Ferrari 355 Challenge – Spyker F1 theme

Forza Motorsport – My Cars - Ferrari 355 Challenge - Spyker F1 theme

Being a big fan of metallic orange in racing games, it may come as no surprise that I really like the Spyker F1 team livery for 2007 which features their traditional orange broken up with silver. They are powered by Ferrari engines during this season and so when I won my first Ferrari in “Forza” I figured I would avoid the traditional red and paint it in the colours of the Spyker F1 team.

Largely this was as straightforward a job as it looks but there are a couple of nice details.

The principle Rotora logo adorning the side has black blocks behind it to make the inner text black. Normally, the text is transparent.

The Bridgestone B on the bonnet was made by using the Bridgestone logo supplied and covering “ridgestone” with a silver panel.

The only other details were that, once again, parts of the side are painted using the roof. Funky.

Problem

Then I hit a problem. The reference photographs I had used were of the pre-season livery. Once the season started Spyker politely altered their silveryness to black so as to make their car more distinguishable from the McLaren Mercedes (when viewed on television). I found this out after taking my photos so you can see the original silver next to my new black one. This wasn’t quite as simple as just changing the silver to black as the silver bits had black logos on. So I needed to find all-white logos. Hmm.

As I had plenty of credits and hadn’t upgraded the car in any way, I bought another F355 Challenge and copied the pattern across so I actually had both the black and silver available. This a great feature and a generous bonus.

• Spyker F1 website