Auto racing has spawned some iconic liveries in the previous couple of many years. Gulf, Rothmans, and Martini are among the largest names, however NASCAR followers will quickly get to take pleasure in taking a look at a basic Castrol design. Roush Fenway Keselowski Racing introduced it will use the Castrol TOM’s Toyota Supra livery on its Ford Mustang when it races at Darlington later this month.
Which may sound sacrilegious, however Castrol presently sponsors Brad Keselowski’s Ford. He selected the throwback design in a video posted to X (previously Twitter), reminiscing about racing the automotive in Gran Turismo. He picked TOM’s Castrol livery over the John Drive Castrol Particular, which he famous was related in design to final yr’s automotive, and Casey Atwood’s Castrol GTX inventory automotive.
Castrol TOM’s Toyota Supra entered the JGTC in 1995 carrying the now-legendary inexperienced, purple, and white coloration scheme that is simply identifiable. The automotive would win the championship in 1997 and 1999 earlier than Castrol ended its sponsorship cope with the group in 2001.
Darlington Raceway has been encouraging groups to don throwback liveries on the monitor for a number of years now, and there might be different automobiles operating classic designs alongside Keselowski all through the weekend. Kyle Larson’s No. 5 Chevrolet will put on a purple, yellow, inexperienced, and white throwback to Terry Labonte, whereas Stewart-Hass Racing’s No. 4 Ford will don a Richard Childress livery from 1998.