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<body> <Table Width="550" border="0" style="border-collapse: collapse" cellpadding="0"><TR><TD Width="35"><IMG SRC="//www.totalmotorsport.com/images/spacer.gif" WIDTH="35" HEIGHT="1"></td><td> <CENTER><Table border="0" width="100%"> <TR><TD width="100%" align="center"><B><FONT FACE="Tahoma" SIZE="5">AMERICAN LE MANS SERIES</FONT></B></TD></TR> <TR><TD width="100%" align="left"><B><FONT FACE="Tahoma" SIZE="2">20/09/2000</FONT></B></TD></TR> <TR><TD width="100%" align="center"><B><FONT FACE="Tahoma" SIZE="4">BMW ART CAR RETURNS</FONT></B></TD></TR> <TR><TD width="100%" align="center"><B><FONT FACE="Tahoma" SIZE="3">why</FONT></B></TD></TR> <TR><TD width="100%" align="center"><img border="1" src="Storage/URNSwhyAME.jpg"></TD></TR> <TR><TD width="100%" align="center"><FONT FACE="Tahoma" SIZE="1">  </FONT></TD></TR> <TR><TD width="100%" align="left"><FONT FACE="Tahoma" SIZE="2">"As much as possible we tried to think about the main ways that these cars are looked at. The viewpoints, if you will. And it was clear that people look at them directly from above when they’re in the pits, and people look at them directly above when they’re standing over them so we tried to have an important thing be on the top. I also looked at how they’re photographed, which often cuts the car in half, so I tried to even fool around with the sentence on top. Depending on which view you have, you might have "WHAT I WANT" if you’re looking at the hood. If you’re looking at the back, you get "PROTECT ME". I tried to make a funny split there. And then, of course, sometimes the car is seen from the side or simply from the rear so I tried to have something from every point of view." <BR> <BR> So said Jenny Holzer when talking about her 'Art Car' with Kerry Morse in July last year. The design aroused some strong reactions at Pre-Qualifying in April 1999 ("LACK OF CHARISMA CAN BE FATAL" was the most provocative statement on the car), and 18 months later, it will make its racing debut at the Petit Le Mans. Is this the actual Art Car chassis, or is it one of the 2000 ALMS machines in the Art Car livery? Time will tell. Chassis numbers 2 and 3 raced at Le Mans in 1999 (3 won), while the cars used this year have been 1 and 4. Logically, chassis 1 was the Art Car in April 1999, but it probably isn't as simple as that.<BR> <BR> The BMW Art Car concept was conceived in 1975, when Hervé Poulain first entered Le Mans. Searching for a link between art and motorsports, he asked his friend Alexander Calder to commission a rolling canvas on his BMW 3.0 CSL.<BR> <BR> Jenny Holzer's version of an Art Car is the 15th in the line. Some might argue that it's easily the least attractive of them all. Lack of charisma can be....dull?</FONT></TD></TR> </TABLE><BR> </CENTER> <BR><CENTER><font size="1" color="#808080" face="Tahoma">Copyright ©2000-©2023 TotalMotorSport</font></CENTER> </td> </tr> </table> </body>