Continental Tire and IMSA came together to create a dedication and contribution award. The two requirements were that it include the IMSA/ International Motor Sports Association logo and Continental Tire shreds, also known as marbles, collected from the racetrack.
The exact definition of rubber marbles is: small bits of rubber that come off tires and accumulate near the outside wall of a racetrack. Drivers call them marbles because that's precisely what they feel like as they drive over them. Learned something new didn’t you?
Many tests failed trying to find a way to compress, form, or embed rubber into a shape that could be used for the award. In the end my favorite clear embedment material, acrylic lucite, worked best. The only side effect was a red hue formed around the rubber bits, however this played into our favor as red is one of IMSA’s logo colors!
The top is laser cut black, red and white acrylic sheets that sandwich the marble lucite embedded layer. The IMSA arrow is cut out of white acrylic to create a window to view the marbles. The base is black resin with a brushed aluminum name plate.
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