Threaded Speed
A race map’s shape stays with you.
Why I Keep Coming Back to This Shape
Open-wheel racing is impossible to ignore if you’ve ever been in a city during a race weekend.
Paris, Montreal, Melbourne, Singapore—I’ve ended up in a few of them while a race was happening. Not even on purpose. The noise gets inside the buildings, inside you. You feel it in the sidewalks. It’s the only sport that temporarily rewrites a city’s geometry so machines can go fast.
I’m not one of those people who travels the world for races—but I know plenty who do. Friends who chase circuits across continents, turning it into a ritual. I get it. There’s something magnetic about speed that close and that loud.
And still, what interests me most isn’t the noise.
It’s the shape.
The Track Is a Line
Every circuit starts the same way: someone draws a line.
One stroke. One loop. That’s it.
Tour de France routes, marathon courses, rally stages—same idea. Cities become temporary diagrams. People follow the line.
Embroidery works exactly the same.
A single path. No shortcuts. No second layer to hide behind.
Why This Silhouette Holds Up
Reduce an open-wheel car to a contour and the essentials stay put:
- the knife-like nose
- the exposed suspension
- the driver sitting in a pencil-width cockpit
- four wheels like punctuation marks
It’s purpose distilled.
There’s no faking anything on these cars. They either work or they don’t.
Las Vegas
Las Vegas is one of the few places where a street circuit actually makes sense.
The city already feels like a high-speed simulation: neon, reflections, overexposure. A track carved through that isn’t strange—it’s on brand.
Being in Vegas during race season, you don’t “watch” it. You absorb it. The sound bounces between the buildings in a way that feels intentional.
A Small Thing I Like
In older races, teams painted the car numbers by hand the night before. Sometimes crooked. Sometimes smudged. High tech machines with low tech labels.
Embroidery feels like the modern version of that—a human-made line on top of a machine-made garment.
Why I Made This Hoodie
Because sometimes the simplest drawing tells the truth.
Because speed doesn’t need a paragraph.
Because a single line can carry a whole world of motion.
And because this silhouette—stripped and blunt—says more than a loud graphic ever could, and I've tried.
The Hoodie
Minimalist Open-Wheel Race Car Hoodie—Black or Desert Dust
Unisex Organic Mid-Weight Embroidered Sweatshirt
A continuous single line becomes the profile of a modern open-wheel race car. No noise. No theatrics. Just the shape. Available in Black (tonal) or Desert Dust (contrasted), made with organic cotton and recycled polyester.
Made to order. No overproduction. No waste disguised as hype.
Minimalist Open-Wheel Race Car Hoodie
Black or Desert Dust | Unisex Organic Mid-Weight Embroidered Sweatshirt
