Top-down view of a red and sky-blue number 51 race car with exposed engine, casting a long shadow across warm sand
Plate I · Fifty-One From AboveNo. 006

No. 006, in 24 platesVintage Formula One

Twenty-four plates from the age of cigar bodies, gold wheels and numbers painted big enough to read from the grandstand.

This is the largest motor-racing room in the gallery, and it is hung in four distinct groups. The first is a set of studio portraits: red and cream open-wheelers with gold wheels and tall wings, posed against flat racing green or a green so dark it reads as night. The second borrows the language of the screen-printed race poster, with cars charging head-on out of red and cream sunburst rays across woodcut-textured tarmac. The third looks straight down on slender cigar-shaped chassis in tangerine and sand, laid out like measured drawings with crisp shadows and plenty of margin. The fourth is two painted race days, all teal sky and fluttering flags.

Fifty-One From Above is the showpiece: a red and sky-blue car seen from overhead, engine bay open, its shadow stretched long across warm sand. Pit Wall Cheer and Clock Tower Straight put you trackside in an older era, drivers in open helmets roaring past a packed grandstand while spectators lean over the wall. The Big Four sets a red numeral the height of the screen above a car on a streaked track, and Halftone Cigar renders an orange chassis in visible print dots with a tiny caption in each corner.

The green portraits suit the Lock Screen best, since the car sits low and the time gets an expanse of solid colour above it. The sunburst posters are busier; their rays converge behind the car, so the clock lands on stripes, which looks deliberate rather than cluttered. The overhead chassis run the full height of the frame and work as a frame for a sparse Home Screen in light mode.

For collectors of race programmes, garage-wall poster people and anyone who misses gold wheels. Six of the 24 plates are free in full resolution, and Unlimited opens the rest, so you can rotate through every group.

24 works · 6 free 6 free · 18 premium at 10 credits each, re-download forever · or all with Unlimited. See every plate on a Lock Screen ↓

Numbers painted big enough to read from the back of the grandstand.

Try each one on before you save it.

Tap any plate to hang it on the Lock Screen, then switch to the Home Screen to see it behind your apps. This is the same preview the app gives you, on your own phone, with your own clock.

Now showing Plate I · Fifty-One From Above
  1. Plate IFifty-One From AbovePremium
  2. Plate IIPit Wall CheerFree
  3. Plate IIIScarlet on GreenPremium
  4. Plate IVRising Sun GridPremium
  5. Plate VNumber Three, OverheadFree
  6. Plate VIThe Big FourPremium
  7. Plate VIIClock Tower StraightPremium
  8. Plate VIIILow Horizon ProfilePremium
  9. Plate IXCream and Claret ProfileFree
  10. Plate XHalftone CigarFree
  11. Plate XIBig Red NumeralPremium
  12. Plate XIIBanked CornerPremium
  13. Plate XIIICentre StripePremium
  14. Plate XIVTall AirboxPremium
  15. Plate XVChevron ShadowPremium
  16. Plate XVIRed Rays RunwayPremium
  17. Plate XVIILight BeamPremium
  18. Plate XVIIIYellow HelmetPremium
  19. Plate XIXSunburst ChargeFree
  20. Plate XXCream Chassis on OrangePremium
  21. Plate XXIMidnight ProfilePremium
  22. Plate XXIIHelmet Dead CentrePremium
  23. Plate XXIIINumber One, ClosePremium
  24. Plate XXIVLetterbox FrontFree

How Vintage Formula One wears.

Nostalgic, bold, classic, spirited. Retro race posters, studio portraits and overhead studies, sized for every iPhone up to 2160 × 4800.

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On the Lock Screen

Low Horizon Profile parks a red car along the very bottom of a near-black screen, leaving the top clear for time and widgets.

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On the Home Screen

Scarlet on Green centres its car on calm racing green, a dark field that keeps white app labels readable.

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Full resolution, every model

Each plate is delivered at the exact size of your iPhone's screen, up to 2160 × 4800, so nothing is stretched or soft at the edges.

The palette
  • Racing green#204040
  • Paddock red#C00000
  • Poster cream#F0E0D0
  • Tangerine chassis#FFA040
  • Wheel gold#D4A017
Mood
nostalgicboldclassicspirited

Free plates, and the rest.

Open Vintage Formula One in pxCream and preview any plate on your Lock Screen first. Prices come from the App Store in your region and are shown in the app before you buy.

Price card · No. 006

Vintage Formula One

Lot 1

Six free platesFree

Full resolution, saved straight to Photos.

Lot 2

A single premium plate10 credits

Yours for good: re-download it any time, on this iPhone, at no extra cost.

Lot 3

pxCream UnlimitedMonthly

Every premium plate in Vintage Formula One and the rest of the gallery, for as long as you subscribe.

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About Vintage Formula One.

Which era of racing do these vintage plates draw on?

They borrow from several. The painted race days and overhead cigar-bodied cars recall the front-engined and early rear-engined years, while the green portraits and sunburst posters show the winged, wide-tyred cars that followed. None of them is a copy of a specific historic car.

Are these official Formula One posters?

No. They are original pxCream illustrations in a retro poster style. They are not licensed by or affiliated with Formula One, any team or any driver.

How many of the 24 are free?

Six: Cream and Claret Profile; Pit Wall Cheer; Number Three, Overhead; Sunburst Charge; Halftone Cigar; and Letterbox Front. The other eighteen are premium, 10 credits each in the pxCream app with re-downloads forever, or all included with Unlimited.

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Plate I · No. 006

Vintage Formula One

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