F1 Fangio.

A car for the number one.

Juan Manuel Fangio took five world championships in seven seasons, the last of them at forty-six, and one of them — 1956 — in a Ferrari. He remains the reference point every Argentine in motorsport is measured against, and the reason a lot of us ended up drawing cars in the first place.

This is a speculative Formula 1 car dressed for him: Scuderia red, the number 1 in yellow, the Argentine flag at the cockpit, and his signature running along the nose. The rest of the surfacing is forward-looking rather than retro — a very long, low nose feeding a multi-element front wing, faired suspension arms, a raised cockpit fairing with a screen over the driver, and a rear wing carried on a single central pylon.

Everything is shot against a near-black ground so the red does the work, with one frame taken from directly above on the grid — the view a broadcast camera gets, and the one that shows how much of a modern car is aerodynamic surface rather than body.

Red on black.

Studio plates and one overhead grid frame.