My Race Lab

Giving race drivers a winning advantage.

The new MyRaceLab mark embodied the ideas of ‘race pace’, a typographic mark, and also the idea of winning.

Client

My Race Lab

Project

Brand Creation

Location

Ōtautahi, Christchurch, New Zealand

Year

2022

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2023

Role

Creative Director, Designer

Agency

Provenance

Category

Motor Racing Technology

Contributors

Andrew Hunter – Client, General Manager
Andrew Pankhurst – Client, Brand Manager
Andrew Millard – Client, CEO

Brand Signature

Brand Story

Creative Direction

Visual Identity

Copywriting

Concept Creation

Brand Strategy

Stakeholder Engagement

MyRaceLab is a brand new racing technology application built across desktop and mobile applications that aggregates a range of common data sources, such as engine management systems, chronometric data, spatial tracking via GPS and video footage. Up till now a lot of these data sources were hard to make sense of, let alone understand how it could make you a better race driver.

The data-driven insights help drivers identify areas for improvement and optimise their race strategy. Continuous and incremental improvements come from analysing performance and give drivers actionable technique recommendations. MyRaceLab enables a continuous refinement of driving skills and the ability to more safely push the limits.

As a start up, MyRaceLab was being built from the ground up. Extensive customer interviews provided a solid product development pathway, and our first task was to develop a workable but flexible brand strategy, based on understanding customer needs.

The idea was MyRaceLab was literally putting elite race team technology into drivers’ hands. Incremental improvements in cornering, race-lines could get drivers podium finishes.

The brand needed to immediately say ʻrace technologyʻ and the sentiment we built the brand around was ʻGiving drivers a win everyday’; the sense that any improvement, no matter how incremental, felt like a win.

Beyond the new brand signature, we helped MyRaceLab develop the assets for the application UI, and also their new voice in visual expression and communications.

The brand had to feel at home on a race car, in amongst a busy array of other sponsorsʻ logos.
Everything about the brand had to suggest ʻeliteʻ, the rush of adrenaline and white-knuckle driving grit.
The logo borrows heavily on a chequered flag motif, and we had the idea of replacing the traditional black and white one on sponsored race days.
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It’s not kilometres per hour that can win the race, but millimetres.
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Our imagery had to work across a variety of racing types, whether it was drifting or motorbike racing.
Patterns and other textures were built from other brand assets.
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If you’re not racing, you’re not winning.
We carefully crafted a brand strategy framework off the back of some amazing audience insights.
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