Agora Road Racing Team Sponsors Needed! (Fake Brand art competition)

[Vitnira]

I've been getting into Formula 1 recently to bond more with my dad and coworkers and honestly, I'm surprised there isn't more vaporwave motorsports shitposting out there. Modern motorsport, especially Formula 1, feature masterpieces of human engineering and skill with a bunch of corporate stickers slapped on (they are painted on i know shut up). If vaporwave is ironic-unironic commentary on the worship of commercialization crudely patched over human aesthetics, we need us a gosh darn racing team.

So I have come into a mysterious digital horde of money (it's actually internet updoots) and am funding the Agora Road Racing Team! And I need sponsors. I want things like Sbubby and Bepis, the ads posted to Walrus Island - Real Fake Brands. Think Dinoco from Cars but with grown-up irony. Think Ricky Bobby's Wonderbread car. Think of actual NASCAR abominations like the M&M car. Be inspired by what HP is doing to the Ferrari livery:

Here is what Ferrari "should" look like. The 2024 car. Solid red, with yellow and black elements from the Ferrari emblem and Shell logo, white accents:

The 2024 "special" livery for the Miami Grand Prix, HP sponsorship ruining the color scheme entirely with corporate greed:

What I want from all of you arre the Shells, HPs, Red Bulls, and other random dumbass fake brands to slap on obnoxiously. Next post, we'll pick out color scheme - but color scheme with many teams is based on their sponsors!
If you have fake car manufacturer ideas that works too - but notice Red Bull Racing is literally just the energy drink and they built their own manufacturing facilities (???).

Entries need to contain: A brand icon, wordart of brand name, 2-3 tone color scheme, and a non-graphic summary of the Company and Product.

You have until June 10th, 2025 to give sponsors. Then we will vote. Multiple entries encouraged.
The 1, 2, 3 winners will be the primary sponsors like an actual racing team. Every entry will end up on the car though! Look at these corporate abominations, we need a lot of stupid brands to fill out a PROPER racing car!!! So if you're late, don't be shy, post your product!

Pinging the creatives (mostly people who entered in the signature competition):
@Punp @Sui the Maid @nobo @HammerKoopa @sneaky dice @Babble Cowboy @ghermann @Hamadayoshi @Rebetol @ElSpankio @Arcensyl @灰の男性 @RisingThumb @jojo

Notably this competition doesn't require as much graphic artistic effort as others, so it is far more approachable.

If you want more inspro look at the Red Bull team, the McLaren team Chrome sponsorship with the wheels, BWT Alpine is a somewhat vaporwavey theme.

Good luck and have fun!

 

[Ross_Я]

Look at these corporate abominations, we need a lot of stupid brands to fill out a PROPER racing car!!!

Don't worry, Vit. You can always go Wendell Scott's way, who never got any major sponsorship in his life, and slap stuff like "mechanic: me" on your car.

Oh, those were the days, when the requirements were so loose you could literally build a NASCAR ride in your own garage. Do I miss those days. It was so much more interesting when it was required to sell an amount of NASCAR cars to public. That truly justified the "stock car" in NASCAR.
But then with the current government restrictions, prices and insurance costs, I guess we would have to see Kia Rios racing. You wouldn't find 2000 people to buy McLaren 720S.

Aaanyway, until june 10th you say? I might actually chime in, would be nice to flash out the logo and colors for one my many fictional corporations. Maybe I'll even do several, who knows.

 

[nobo]

Imagine the racer is the Dude You're Getting a Dell guy from


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dXGO6QSC5Fg

I'm pretty sure that guy lost his job because he got arrested for marijuana possession. So obviously he would be blazing and sipping on sizzurp on race day and crash the car into the cow pattern Gateway computer car.

 

[shinobu]

If I submit this, what is missing? I'm not quite sure what you mean by wordart, for example.
I know it's incomplete, like the summary, but I'd like to clear up some doubts about it first

 

[Vitnira]

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If I submit this, what is missing? I'm not quite sure what you mean by wordart, for example.
I know there's a bunch of stuff missing, like the summary, but I'd like to clear up some doubts about it first

That's perfect in every way. The part where you spell it out with the blocks if what I want. Notice how some of the sponsors are just the name of the company in the company font? That's what I mean. It's done to keep a cohesive color scheme where the lower-tier sponsor logo colors conflict with the main scheme (see Pirarelli tyres being white color font)

 

[Rebetol]

Can our car pls have a shark fin?

 

[Hamadayoshi]

I really liked the livery of the cars when they allowed tobacco companies to sponsor the teams. Sure, it's evil and it probably cemented cigarettes as household products like any other for a lot of people, but those logos usually had one or two colors, were simple enough and they were usually red/yellow, which always looks nice on a racecar. So i made a "Lucky stanza" logo as agora's official death-stick supplier, I'm still very agnostic about the costanza behind the typeface but it's probably a wip, tried to find a closest match to the helvetica "neue" font they used around in the 80s-90s but that's probably not it.

 

[eris]

feel free to decolor these keyboard institute logos, they work fine as lineart. please enjoy an additional 90s logo i did for another project (this one kinda breaks without color though)

 

[shinobu]

I really liked the livery of the cars when they allowed tobacco companies to sponsor the teams. Sure, it's evil and it probably cemented cigarettes as household products like any other for a lot of people, but those logos usually had one or two colors, were simple enough and they were usually red/yellow, which always looks nice on a racecar. So i made a "Lucky stanza" logo as agora's official death-stick supplier, I'm still very agnostic about the costanza behind the typeface but it's probably a wip, tried to find a closest match to the helvetica "neue" font they used around in the 80s-90s but that's probably not it.
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Maybe something like this, where "lucky" is behind Costanza? Otherwise, the letters could go up in an arc around the face, though it would be further from the OG logo

 

[SolidStateSurvivor]

Here's a bunch from various designs I've done

 

[Vitnira]

I'm giving an example entry. It's half-cocked but I think people need to see more what I'm talking about here.

The famous Elbonian luxury car manufacturer, Horny Pard S.p.A.
Horny Pard produces cars of the same standard as the medieval symbol of the company's founder: Historic. Beautiful. Elegant. 120% Real.
Pard has been a mainstay in racing since its inception, producing the most absurd of engines that blow the competition - and themselves - away.
Their strategic calls are unparalleled. If there's water in the car, they know exactly where it came from. If you report a problem, their customer service will tell you it is the exact problem you told them it was. They listen. They hear. They understand what makes a car work. They're here for you. And your money.
Mostly your money.

Horny Pard, S.p.A. Mythically Unchallenged.

Brands don't need to be a car manufacturer - Shinobu's ABM was perfect. But I think this gets the "real fake brand" vibe with something that would make sense for a "primary sponsor".

 

[shinobu]

Here's another one:

Heavenmann's "mayo"
An old brand from the late 1800s whose founder discovered a special formula to make a healthier alternative to mayonnaise. All-natural "mayo", thick, creamy, perfect for all cooks, recommended by 9/10 doctors. Several other "mayo"-related products have come out from their secretive factories in Switzerland (like mayo-choco cake), but their original "mayo" has never not been on the shelves since its inception.
A secondary sponsor, I suppose. They don't build cars either, but they sure provide all the "mayo" for the sandwiches at every event, even for the pitstop people's snacks.
Rumor on the street is that their "mayo" is an excellent lubrication for the cars' suspension systems too.

I've also updated my previous post with higher res stuff

 

[Punp]

What's the final goal here Vit? Are you going to retexture a car model?

 

[Slumber]

A quick idea I threw together

 

[Vitnira]

What's the final goal here Vit? Are you going to retexture a car model?

Yes, and it's going to have all logos inelegantly slapped on like an overly political bumper.

 

[Vitnira]

I really liked the livery of the cars when they allowed tobacco companies to sponsor the teams. Sure, it's evil and it probably cemented cigarettes as household products like any other for a lot of people, but those logos usually had one or two colors, were simple enough and they were usually red/yellow, which always looks nice on a racecar. So i made a "Lucky stanza" logo as agora's official death-stick supplier, I'm still very agnostic about the costanza behind the typeface but it's probably a wip, tried to find a closest match to the helvetica "neue" font they used around in the 80s-90s but that's probably not it.
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This is the exact idea and vibe I want. But yeah I like shin's edit better. We need cancer sticks.


If someone wants to make a fake vape company that'd work. Something as surreal as the Root Beer Vape Juice Flavor Flavored Soda Product.

 

[Andy Kaufman]

 

[Antice]

Arogant, your local heavy metal aerosol shop.

There I updated it:

Red fits an evil company that saves the world a fag at a time like Marlboro

 

[№56]

Entries need to contain: A brand icon, wordart of brand name, 2-3 tone color scheme, and a non-graphic summary of the Company and Product.

Village Motorsports GmbH (a subsidiary of Village Security Systems, LLC) is an international leader in automotive safety systems, focusing on providing next-generation vehicle occupant-restraint systems for both the public and private sectors. Their flagship product, the "Rover"® Autonomous Active Safety Device, combines the energy-absorbing capacity of a traditional airbag with the ability, either as the result of a crash or at the driver's discretion, to detach itself from the vehicle, seek out oncoming traffic, and [REDACTED].

The use of "Rover"®-type devices by Village teams in both Formula One and World Rally Championship events has led to some controversy in motorsports circles. In 2021 the FIA opened an official inquiry into the matter, but failed to deliver a conclusive verdict on the device's legality thanks to the sudden disappearance of all 12 committee members. Fans remain divided on the subject. While a vocal minority maintain that "Rover"® is a blatant example of cheating and an insult to everything the sport stands for, many others find its on-track antics to be highly entertaining. A recent impact report commissioned by the FIA directly cited "Rover"® as one of the driving factors behind increased viewership during the 2024 and 2025 F1 seasons.


Village cars race in a British racing green livery, with goldenrod accents and a gunmetal-black underbody. In addition, the team is famous for the distinctive red and white "candy cane" stripes that decorate wings, fenders, and the umbrellas carried by the pit crew.

 

[UltramarineWeather]

Need some Top Gear style british humour, if you ask me.