Fans know crew chiefs like spend countless hours devising ways to coax more speed from their cars.
Behind the scenes, graphics designers, such as Eagle One's creative director, Fred Large, work to give those high-horsepower machines a winning appearance. The Eagle One company, Valvoline's line of premium appearance products, needed an exciting new look for its stable of racers for the 2001 season. Just as an artist begins with a blank canvas, Large had to begin with unpainted racing vehicles of various sizes and shapes. That process took two weeks. He then shipped those hand-drawn sketches to graphics consultant Chad Stern in North Carolina, where Stern put them into a computer and crafted a finished version.