A1 Team Netherlands is hosting a special design contest to give the Dutch A1GP car a new livery for season three. Everyone can enter, the only obligation being the use of the colour orange in the design.

On the website www.A1teamned.com everyone can download two line drawings (side – and topview) and start designing straight away. This way the organisation is hoping to get creative ideas for the car’s 2007/2008 livery. “If the quality of the winning design is good enough and if the feasibility is of a level that it fits the National team, we will use this livery on the car and thus the design can be admired worldwide, on the circuits and in the 135 countries where A1GP is being broadcasted,” said Robert Hoevers, A1 Team Netherlands General Manager.

At the moment the car is completely orange. A color that is not the easiest to implement in a livery design, but it is and will be the Dutch team. On the line drawings everyone can give their impression of a possible new livery. Apart from orange, red, white and blue can of course be used, as well as other colours, as long as the car has a Dutch appearance. On the same website the racing fans can give their opinion about the submitted designs. An official jury, consisting of A1 Team Netherlands Seatholder Jan Lammers, driver Jeroen Bleekemolen and General Manager Robert Hoevers, will make a selection out of the various designs.

The design contest winner will be invited to witness the A1GP Zandvoort on 30 September as a special guest of A1 Team Netherlands. Furthermore there are fantastic prizes to be won for the top entries, which are presented by A1 Team Netherlands sponsors. Remeha is offering a boiler, painted in the winning design. State of Art is offering a 250 Euro voucher, which can be used in one of the State of Art stores, Scalextric is offering a number of complete A1GP slot racing sets and slot racing cars. Playseats is offering a Playseat and Gofast is offering a year’s supply of Gofast, a VIP package for the X-Days 2007 and tickets for dance events.

On 1 July the winning design will be announced and prize winning designs can be admired on the website. Who knows, maybe Jeroen Bleekemolen will be racing on 30 September in the Dutch A1GP car with your new livery design!

For more details on the design contest of A1GP, please visit www.A1teamned.com. Deadline is 1 June, but I would get the design in earlier, since they’re declaring a winner on that date.