Volvo S60 Polestar WTCC
Fans at the Goodwood
Festival of Speed has been treated to the sight and sound of
Volvo's S60 racer speeding up the hill.
But it just wearing the regular livery it sports in the World Touring Car Championship.
Instead it features this uniquely simplified color scheme designed by
Bernadotte & Kylberg.
The interior design firm
is run by Prince Carl Philip of Sweden's royal Bernadotte family, who also
happens to be a Volvo factory racing driver, together with his colleague Oscar
Kylberg. The pair designed this special livery for the S60 WTCC in the colors
of the Swedish flag.
The result is rather more elegant than the busy color schemes typically adorning
racing machinery. Following its debut at Goodwood, the livery will also take
part in the FIA WTCC's Art Car Contest.
Cyan Racing (formerly
known as Polestar) once dominated the Scandinavian Touring Car Championship,
winning six drivers' titles and seven teams' crowns. It has found considerably
bigger challenges, however, since entering Australia's V8 Supercars series and
the World Touring Car Championship, where it currently sits last in the
rankings behind Citroën, Honda and Lada. If only having the best-looking car
resulted in more race wins.
