Three artists three ways of seeing the same obsession. A draftsman spends decades capturing what a photograph cannot show revealing the hidden engineering inside a race car. A painter turns childhood motorcycle rides into watercolor honesty finding life in an engine the way others find only metal. A sculptor bends sheet metal and negative space into silhouettes that seem to float capturing the essence of the world's most beautiful machines. None of them raced professionally none of them built the cars themselves yet each one found a way to translate speed and shape into something you can hang on a wall or hold in your hands.

Different mediums different countries different tools but the same instinct driving all three forward. This is what happens when passion for cars finds an outlet beyond driving them. Once I have the video details I will fold in a fourth piece to round out the overview properly.

A photograph shows what a Formula 1 car looks like. A Giorgio Piola drawing shows how it works. It started with a bet between brothers over whose drawing was better until a magazine wrote back to nineteen year old Giorgio alone and invited him to Monaco. He never went back to studying engineering.

His father one of eight lawyers to the Pope wanted degrees for all his sons and Giorgio was the only one who never got one. That was 1969. He has now attended over 900 Grands Prix more than any driver team principal or engineer in history. For decades his tool was a Rapidograph pen and a single cutaway drawing could take 45 days with the shadow on one tire alone taking three or four. His first wife once told him his lines were dead until he learned to vary their thickness to create shadow calling it one of the secrets of the drawing.

Nobody tells him what is new on a car. He simply sees the piece that is different his eyes trained since childhood spotting differences in puzzle magazines. He drew a hidden slot on a Mercedes wing before anyone confirmed it and later found he was exactly right. He invented trackside technical illustration and almost nobody has done it since.

In Northern France sculptor Antoine Dufilho works obsessively to capture the essence of the world's most beautiful modes of transportation using a layering technique that adds movement to long celebrated shapes.

His work has shown in galleries in Dubai New York London and the Petersen Museum and Jean Todt president of the FIA ordered two monumental pieces for his private collection becoming Dufilho's ambassador. Dufilho trained as an architect writing his thesis on asymmetry studying buildings that defy convention and physics a sense of balance and weightlessness now reflected in sculptures that seem to float using segmented negative space. Disappointed by mundane architecture work after graduation he channeled his energy into sculpture starting with a solid aluminum piece of his father's Bugatti 35 for his birthday. He experimented with resin silicon polyester tubes and eventually laser cut sheet metal arriving at the style he is known for today using architecture experience to build structure that holds pieces together with minimal welds.

He devised a paintwork system using thermal lacquering and his art rewards walking around it in person as pieces seem to materialize in and out of view. He now works from a studio built from shipping containers fulfilling orders for Ferraris Jaguars and Porsches while restoring his own gift to himself a Jaguar E Type in his favorite silhouette.

Claudia Liebenberg always wanted to be honest in her portrayal painting where she comes from her interests and how she sees the world. Growing up in rural mountain country in South Africa she started riding motorcycles at ten taught by her father a competitive racer who ran alongside yelling instructions on an old scrambler.

When she was not riding the flat track her father built she picked up watercolor encouraged by her mother and found it was the only medium that let her get an idea or emotion across. Not formally trained she let the subject become the teacher learning patience the same way she learned to ride.

Her work exudes vibrant character capturing moments with precision down to the reflection of palm trees in a motorcycle tank. She sees more than metal in an engine she sees the life it reflects back. After a solo exhibit she began sharing her work online which caught the attention of brands like BMW and led to commissioned pieces. She now rides a 1976 BMW R75 and loves the classics for their soul and their stories. Her latest work includes two Alfa Romeo pieces painted for the marque's 110th anniversary during which she learned the oil cap reads OLIO not oil a detail she loved discovering.