EPF Graphics gets to grips with a motorsport trailer and it’s a biggie…

Racing anything on wheels is a serious business and, if you’re going to do it properly, there’s more involved than simply arriving at a circuit with a car or motorcycle and thrashing it around. 

Today’s elite formulas and the split second advantage that often decide race results come at a considerable price. Racing hardware is honed to perfection by attendant technicians, big inventories of spares and tools need to be on hand, and of course the wellbeing of the crew and racing machines need to be considered. That suggests, and requires, that you and your team have a pretty big trailer full of all you need to go racing.

Michael Laverty’s a well known name in racing circles and, if you follow bikes in particular, it’s likely you’ll have heard him commentating on TV. Now, he has a team of his own and it, and the whole entourage that goes with it are housed in a big trailer. 

In addition to taking everything around from venue-to-venue, trailers have an obligation to promote the team and its sponsor interests so that means graphics and lots of them. Michael Laverty found the way to EPF Graphics’ HQ in Stockton-on-Tees, design in hand, to get the team’s trailer up-to-spec.

Dave Todd and the team at EPF can rightly claim huge experience in the field of racing graphics and deeply specialise in supporting teams with design, production and application services. The design for the Laverty trailer came with the job but the data needed a bit of help from EPS to make sure it fitted properly and looked right.

The EPF Team printed the graphics on Metamark’s premium cast wrapping film MetaCast MDC and protected the results with the film’s matching cast MGC laminate. The trailer is actually painted black and so anything that’s rendered in any other colour is total coverage wrap film. The application is perfect. It’s executed with great precision as the design leaves no hiding place for errors. That’s what experience and specialisation buys.

Now, the Laverty team can show up and its trailer will hold its own among the other celebrity-calibre vehicles in the paddock anywhere in the world. It does move around a lot. The EPF team had to travel to a site in Portugal to fit its stunning graphics to the trailer ‘on-location.’ No strangers to international racing and its needs, EPF was happy to oblige.

The trailer is a work of signs and graphics producers art. It looks great and shouts as loud as anything out there. Thanks to the deep expertise at EPF Graphics, it’ll look that way for as long as it needs to.