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Technical drawings have always allowed those unlikely to get their hands into the oily innards of a race car to get a look at what goes where, and does what.<\/strong><\/p>\n

We had a quick chat with technical illustrator Roy Scorer about these incredible works of art. Or engineering. Or both.<\/p>\n

Influx: How did you realise you were good at technical drawing?<\/em>
\nRoy Scorer: “While at school, O-Level era,\u00a0the careers officer had a poster showing technical illustration at Portsmouth College of Art. So I went for it, and left 1986 with an HND in T.I.”<\/p>\n

Influx: How long does a drawing take?<\/em>
\nScorer: “The latest historic race car cutaway\/ghosted illustrations take approximately 130-150 hours, done in my spare time. They are done from photo reference only as there are no engineering drawings about from those days.”<\/p>\n

Influx: How much access to the vehicle do you need?<\/em>
\nScorer: “This all depends on what is removable, some cars are easy to remove panels but the Capri only had bonnet and drivers door removable. So I research for photos of people restoring cars and photographing every stage of the strip down and rebuild. The more the customer is happy to strip down the more detail I can add. The Proton BTCC car a good example.”<\/p>\n

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Influx: Have you ever designed a car from scratch?<\/em>
\nScorer: “No, the nearest to this was an artist impression of Ginetta G40 as a National Hotrod. And a Citroen DS4 as a BTCC car. Also a range of sports cars as rallycross cars. All on website ‘coloured section’.”<\/p>\n

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Influx: Are there any cars you’d love to draw?<\/em>
\nScorer: “A modern day Rallycross car, Pikes Peak super cars and LMP1 WEC car. But pretty much any race car, any era really!”<\/p>\n

Influx: Do you use pencil and paper, or a computer?<\/em>
\nScorer: “I trained on a drawing board using pens and pencils. These days it’s on a computer.”<\/p>\n

Influx: Who are your inspirations?<\/em>
\nScorer: “Any good technical illustrator.”<\/p>\n

Influx: Why did you turn to motorsport?<\/em>
\nScorer: “My dad raced stock cars when I was little and then raced trucks later on. I grew up with it on the TV and enjoy just about all motorsport.”<\/p>\n