Red Bull Ampol Racing showcased its Indigenous liveries, designed by the students of Gunnedah’s Clontarf Academy, during the weekend’s Darwin Triple Crown.
The Clontarf Foundation has been a longstanding community partner of the team’s co-naming right’s partner, Ampol. It operates to improve the education, life skills, self-esteem, and employment prospects of young Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander men through academies in schools across Australia.
The Gunnedah Academy in north-west NSW is one of the 160 Clontarf Foundation academies around Australia. Based at the local Gunnedah High School, it supports 95 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students through the program which encourages them to participate in education, employment and society in a positive way.
The artwork, aptly named ‘The Journey of the Driver’, was created by the students to describe the life of a Red Bull Ampol Racing driver.
“The centre circles symbolised by the U shapes are a meeting place,” reads a statement. “The U shapes are the symbol for a person – this represents the drivers and the extended crew, working together as one. The four corners with striped dots represent the many roads/tracks the driver races on throughout their career.”
Red Bull Ampol Racing also sold a limited-edition collection of Darwin Triple Crown merchandise which featured the artwork, with 10% of sales from every item sold being donated to the Clontarf Foundation.
