In a just world, sports car racing would have the same following as Formula 1 or NASCAR. It doesn’t, so it’s been impressive that Illinois-based Autumn Oaks (AO) Racing has been able to accrue a following perhaps more for its light-hearted dinosaur-themed race cars than for its success on the track. The team became so popular that it attracted the admiration of a well-known online creator who decided to pay them a special tribute by modifying her own car.
Having a non-motorsports influencer publicly like your racing team seems like a layup, which is what makes what happened next so perplexing. Instead of expanding the team’s reach, a series of misunderstandings and escalations led to an outpouring of vitriol among fans of the sport, resulting in some former supporters in the IMSA racing community claiming they would actively now root against AO Racing.
Like all comms blunders, this one will probably be forgotten in time, but the fact that the PR response of a privateer team garnered so much attention shows that growing attention for the sport, which is what its organizers and fans have long wanted, comes with a price.
Everyone Loves Dinosaurs
IMSA is America’s premier sports car racing series, and if you walk the garages at any of the races, you’ll probably see more smiling people than in your average F1 or even NASCAR paddock. The participants care just as much, and the pressure is still sky high, but the drivers and teams are much more accessible, which creates a mood that feels a little lighter than, say, MotoGP. It’s one of the reasons I love the sport.
Historically, the teams with the biggest followings are the factory-backed efforts that have the infrastructure of an entire manufacturer to pump them up. At the Rolex 24, you’ll probably see more Corvette Racing shirts than Riley Motorsports gear, even though Riley has won at Daytona more than 20 times. This makes sense. You can’t go out and easily buy a Riley MkXI the way you can a C5 Corvette.
How can any one Porsche private team compete with the might and attention of Porsche itself? AO Racing found a way. The team, which was created by GutHub co-founder P.J. Hyett and longtime racer Gunnar Jeannette, had only just gotten started when it fielded a T-Rex themed livery for its 911 GT3 R at the 2023 12 Hours of Sebring. This bright green car, called “Rexy” had giant white teeth arranged in a wide smile. Utilizing the 992’s headlights as eyes, there was something immediately warm and inviting about the car.
Fans loved it, and the next season AO Racing debuted both “Roxy,” a pink sister car, and “Spike,” an LMP2 entry. Kids have been especially drawn to the cars and AO Racing, according to everyone I spoke with, nurtured these good vibes both by selling merch and by making extra time to sign autographs or interact with younger fans. People on the IMSA subreddit joined the cause based purely on the livery alone.
“It’s absolutely the fan favorite, and it should be,” longtime motorsports PR guy, podcast host, and current Pfaff Motorsports Race Strategist Sean Heckman told me. “They do something that’s different and cool, and they commit to it. So much of professional motorsports, where they get it wrong, is a lack of commitment to identity.”
They even got a Hot Wheels version, which was pretty much a no-brainer according to Hot Wheels Design Manager Dmitriy Shakhmatov.
“It’s such a cool car that really captivates the audience, and especially the kids,” said Shakhmatov at the time. “It provides excitement for all demographics, from three-year-olds to 93-year-olds, as we say. Having so much fun and seeing our partners with AO Racing and Porsche doing a livery that really stands out is something that our brand is all about. We have the vehicle in our lineup, and having the livery will totally make this a nice, appealing toy.”
In 2024, the team got its first win in “Rexy” at Laguna Seca. It wouldn’t be the last, as two more victories would help the team secure its first championship in the GTD Pro Class. It was one of the rare times when everything lined up and the fan favorite was also the overall victor.
A Complex Misunderstanding
Merel Eisink is a racing fan. On any given weekend, you’ll find her tweeting about Formula One, NASCAR, IMSA, or IndyCar. Her Twitter/x account is relatively small, with only about 1,100 followers, but those followers are die-hard fans as well. Ahead of the 12 Hours of Sebring, she asked those followers if she could consider putting “rexy teeth” on her Scion FR-S.
“I mod my car quite a lot and wanted to add some simple accents that I could do myself without having to wrap my whole car, so I had the idea to create some Rexy-style teeth,” she told me in an email.
When AO Racing announced they’d be adding a gold tooth to Rexy for Sebring, Eisink updated her Photoshop, which is where the trouble began.
Went from team fan to “I wish i was rich so i could buy a 911, wrap it with your stupid livery and light it on fire” reaaaaaally quick. That guy was giving you some love and you had to come up with this shit… I hope i don’t get sued because of using your livery on Gran Turismo… pic.twitter.com/NunpaHphpI
— BillyCherokee⚡ (@BillyCherokee) March 9, 2025
Much of the back-and-forth is in the screenshot above, which you’ll have to use because AO Racing deleted what looks like the first response, which was “Just remember our liveries are trademarked. We appreciate the imitation, but make your car special in making it your own!”
For some fans, this seemed like a slap in the face, and the reaction online was swift and negative. Some people pointed out that the gold teeth had already appeared on a Porsche well before Rexy or AO Racing existed. Other people mentioned it was just a fan being a fan.
“Sports car fans are extremely loyal, and to be blunt, are aware of the fact that they are a niche group,” said Heckman. “I will absolutely give kudos to sports car fans because they understand the need to prop each other up. I have yet to meet a sportscar fan who is shitty… so I think sports car fans take it personally when they see something that goes against them.”
It then got worse. As you saw above, the team deleted that initial statement and then tried to explain the whole thing with a much larger post that tried to excuse the initial concern by adding on the idea of someone getting in an accident while driving a livery-themed car, as well as trademark and licensing issues.
“I was pretty upset about it because I was hoping they’d respond positively, as a cosplayer/costume maker, I built my entire work around replicating and interpreting other people’s designs into my own craft,” said Eisink.
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That’s the other detail here that AO Racing seemingly didn’t notice at first. While Eisink’s social following for her racing fandom is relatively small, the social footprint for her main gig as a Cosplayer and costume designer is larger than that of most IMSA teams or drivers (including AO Racing itself). Not only was AO Racing turning away a fan with a lot of online influence, they were also explaining trademarks and copyrights to someone whose business involves dealing with licensing every day.
This detail was too much for many, and redditors even held a poll where they asked if people would still root for the team after the whole kerfuffle, with less than half saying they would.
Why This Might Have Happened
The PR person that everyone I spoke with has identified as being behind the tweet is longtime motorsports comms fixture Kelly Brouillet, who is both the President of Indiana-based KBru Communications and the main PR voice of AO Racing. Brouillet declined to comment.
From what I can tell, the initial concern that AO Racing seems to have had was that Eisink was going to wrap the car entirely in a Rexy Tribute. Eisink also thinks this is what happened.
“I didn’t quite respond to all the replies, but a lot of people found the original tweet and subsequently misinterpreted the AO Racing reply, thinking they were referring to just the style of the teeth, and it blew up after that.”
Eisink says that AO Racing, likely Brouillet, DM’d her and apologized for the mishap after deleting the initial reply.
If that had been it, then I think everyone would have moved on with their lives, but something about the doubling-down statement seems to have especially set people off. It’s not clear if that was the work of just Brouillet or, perhaps, if someone higher up the ladder at AO Racing made her issue the statement.
“Other racing teams I’ve worked with have had incidents with IP infringement, but for the greater good of the sport, no one says anything because it’s just not worth it,” says Heckman, who represented Magnus Racing, another team that had a large fan following. “This is why anytime any other team I’ve worked with, when they’ve had a moment like this, they say nothing because it’s not worth pissing off a fan who is trying to do something cool.”
While Magnus Racing is a beloved brand, I haven’t seen a non-factory livery that isn’t based on existing IP get the attention that AO Racing has gotten with its dinosaurs, so the level of concern seems different (AO Racing, for its part, has been filing trademarks for its designs).
As a longtime fan of the sport, I’m a little blown away that anyone cared enough to get mad about this. Even though negative feelings were generated, I think this is a sign that the sport is growing faster than people involved are maybe prepared for. Whereas most of the drama formerly stayed within the confines of the track, increased viewership has pushed IMSA even more into the online space. After the success of Drive To Survive on Netflix, fans also seem to have a more personal connection to these athletes and a sense, at least, of ownership of teams and drivers that they didn’t have before.
According to IMSA, both attendance and viewership for the Rolex 24 were up considerably this year:
Per NBC Sports, IMSA coverage across NBC and USA windows and Peacock streaming coverage increased compared to 2024, with Sunday’s closing segment of the Rolex 24 delivering Peacock’s most streamed IMSA event on record.
Sunday coverage across NBC and Peacock averaged a Total Audience Delivery (TAD) of 899,000 viewers, up 133 percent from the weighted average of 2024 NBC and USA windows, including Peacock and digital simulstreams (385,000 TAD viewers).
The three linear simulstreamed window on NBC (two telecasts) and USA (one) averaged a TAD of 491,000 viewers, up 31 percent from 2024.
While it doesn’t have a DTS, IMSA and its partner Michelin have been producing the “Win The Weekend” YouTube series (full disclosure, in my old job I helped pitch the series, although I never worked on an episode). This docu-series draws millions of views whenever it’s posted, which is also new for the sport.
AO Racing has recently experienced the many positives of all this new attention and is, in many ways, the toothy face of a resurgent sport. But with that attention comes an online fanbase and scrutiny they might not have been prepared to deal with.
A Happy Outcome Pfor The PFans
As Ayrton Senna once said, “[I]f you no longer go for a gap that exists you are no longer a racing driver because we are competing.”
Taking that lesson to heart, competitor Pfaff Motorsports, which fields a Lamborghini Huracan in IMSA, swooped in to offer the Florida resident tickets to the race in order to lift her spirits and restore her faith in racing. As a way of showing thanks, Eisink mimicked the iconic plaid that PFaff Motorsports uses for their cars.
“Since the teeth thing I designed was just a photoshop as an idea, I had the idea to use some of my spare vinyl to create a plaid pattern for my hood to show support to Pfaff, and share the Sebring visit online, which Pfaff thought was a cool idea so I went ahead and did that as well,” she said.
“We were hit by the hurricanes last year, so I didn’t have the opportunity to go to Daytona like I usually do, so it was a great day out. I had a few people come up to me as well for a chat, recognizing both the hood on my parked car and myself from the whole story.”
The event was a success for AO Racing, which won its class, and for Pfaff, which got a lot of positive attention for a car parked off the track.
In the end, this whole thing will likely blow over before the next race, though teams will likely not forget the much different world they’re now operating in.
“I have worked with the PR people at AO for many, many years,” says Heckman, who is sympathetic to the team. “They have a lot of experience, they are very enthusiastic about this sport, and they want to see this sport succeed. It’s impossible to get everything right while making your bosses happy and making your fans happy, so I maybe give them more slack than the fans do.”
AO Racing, in a statement to The Autopian, acknowledged that their newfound success has its challenges.
“AO has been very fortunate to have our cars and characters resonate with all sorts of audiences across the globe. With that, we are constantly learning and evolving how to manage a successful race team both on and off the track.”
In the bike world, this is close to a Specialized level of tone deafness.
Never tweet.
(Especially in 2025. Get the hell off that site, y’all.)
Wow, it sounds like AO racing and Eisink understand each other and neither has a problem with the other. Nobody here did anything wrong except the “fans” who felt they needed to be upset. I guess social media is nothing without outrage though.
No one did anything “wrong”. AO Racing just did something incredibly stupid from a business perspective. I’m not so much mad at what they said, but I did subconsciously shake my head when I read the tweet. The level of idiocy of this supposed PR professional shooting from the hip with that response to a fan showing some love is hard to comprehend.
But yeah, finding something to be mad about is the internet now, so this is not at all surprising to read.
IMO, the teeth look BETTER on her car, maybe they were jealous 😉
Oh, yeah, I agree that it was a stupid thing to do, but the faux outrage isn’t warranted.
People are just desperate for things to be mad about. Social media is a goddamn cancer.
I’m still gonna be rooting for Rexy and Spike because I don’t care about someone getting their little feelers hurt by a stupid fucking tweet.
Things like this are one of the reasons I’m slowly getting more and more offline.
I’m a mechanical engineer, trained on CAD design, CFD simulation and FEA analyses.
And yet, the older I get, the more I’m working with paper.
Anyway, I feel you brother.
Ah, the old RAS Syndrome! “Computer Aided Design” Design and “Finite Element Analysis” Analysis. No poking fun here, much respect to anyone who even understands fluid dynamics enough to run CFD software. Just love when we all say “FEA Analysis”.
Sorry, it took so long to remember my PIN number to unlock my phone to reply to this, that I forgot what I was saying.
Let me go back to looking at my LCD display and exporting documents into a PDF format.
*FEM analyses 😉
I never had a Facebook or Twitter account, and I deleted my Instagram account at least 10 years ago now. I’m only on a couple hobby forums now, and I post on a handful of sites like this. Though I am trying to quit a Reddit habit, and I don’t even have a Reddit account.
I’m really glad I’ve never fully engaged with social media. Do forums count as social media?
If I was the editor of this article, I would have insisted on finding only ‘unlicensed’ images and illustrations to compliment the writeup.
I’m sure there’s got to be some other image of a car wrapped up in a purple dragon.
Good article.
Yeah quite the PR kerfuffle, but sounds like it’s mostly ended satisfactorily.
I was at 12 hours of Sebring, and there was a Porsche 911 team in the pit area that had a cool livery that was a bunch of skulls of various sizes all over the car. I was taking a ton of pics, and they came up to me and asked we what I thought of their car. I said I loved it, and as appreciation, they gave me a vinyl skull sticker. Not a small promotional sticker, but like one of the huge ones they’d have stuck on their own car.
That’s how you treat your fans.
This was like 20 years ago and I still remember it.
my car-guy dad took my brother and I to a race (maybe GT? Definitely a road course) in San Antonio. Probably late 80s? We got so much Camel cigarette shwag, the rest of my elementary school was jealous! Still wish I had the Camel fanny pack.
That would have been 1990 or 91. I was at that race, and I think it only ran for 1 or 2 years. It was an IMSA/Camel GT road coarse around Hemisphere Plaza, which was cool since you could go up into the tower to get a bird’s eye view.
Yeah, IMSA teams in general are pretty cool.
“This is why anytime any other team I’ve worked with, when they’ve had a moment like this, they say nothing because it’s not worth pissing off a fan who is trying to do something cool.”
This Heckman guys seems to get it.
It seemed like a dumb response up until I realized they were complaining about a Photoshopped pic of a car… then it seemed like a Really dumb response. As a fairly fresh fan of IMSA (the 2023 12-hours of Sebring was my first race), I’m really hoping this was a minor mistake and not some sign of an already encroaching enshitification scenario.
My daughter is a huge fan of AO racing and has both of those Hotwheels cars, a 1/18 version of Rexy, and bought a nice hoodie from their merch tent at this year’s 12-hours of Sebring. Putting teeth on her Corvette is absolutely something I could see her doing. I’m curious to hear her take on this.
And speaking of shitty situations, what exactly is up with the website lately (not the website itself of course, just the re-directs 🙂 )? It’s the fourth or fifth time I’ve gotten this message today. Hitting the back button works, but it happened a bunch of times yesterday and kind of gets old as it deletes anything I type for a comment when it happens. For reference, I’m on a Chrome browser and my company does run Symantec:
Malicious Site Blocked!
Symantec Endpoint Protection blocked this website:
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Send this to Matt. He says he can block the offending ad.
Thanks! Something changed and we are trying to figure out what it was.
Heckman’s one of the good guys.
I literally just had this happen and I couldn’t hit the back button.
This very much reminds me of my own experience building a race car as an homage to another famous car. Back in 2013, some friends and I built a replica of “The Homer” from The Simpsons to race in the 24 Hours of Lemons. Lemons loves wacky themes and our team had already gained some fame in the series for previously having great themes on our BMW E30 racer, so we were looking for ideas of famous TV or movie cars that hadn’t been done in Lemons yet, and settled on The Homer, partly so we could repurpose the giant sheetmetal fins we put on the car from a previous theme.
We built it not knowing that nobody had ever built a full scale replica of The Homer before, so when we put up a short YouTube video of our creation, it blew up and quickly racked up about half a million views (again, this was 12 years ago – today it’d probably be in the millions). Ultimately the attention we got netted us an invite by Fox and Gracie Films to bring the car to Fox Studios to promote the 25th season of The Simpsons. That was an amazing day and we got to meet Matt Groening (creator of The Simpsons) and several other well known people involved with The Simpsons and Futurama – I even got to take them on hot laps around the parking lot!
It was during that event that we talked to our contact with Fox and found out that we were very close to getting a cease and desist notice from their lawyers, and it wasn’t until Matt Groening himself found out about our car that he stepped in and said no, these are fans and should be celebrated instead of punished, and thankfully that’s what happened. Clearly the lawyers got the message because last year we got invited to display our car at D23, which is basically Comic Con for Disney (Fox is now under Disney), and they gave us a bunch of tickets to the event as payment.
That is an amazing story. Thanks for sharing!
It was an amazing honor!
Hell yeah, The Homer rules.
And that’s how these companies should handle this stuff. Great on you guys too, loved the car!
People may think social media is horrible (which it is), but there are plenty of lawyers out there making things AT LEAST as horrible since time immemorial. We are stupidly letigious here.
That is scrum-diddly-umptous story. Amazing way for things to turn out, you’ll have something awesome to remember forever with that one. And a recreation of “the Homer” as a Lemons car is absolutely chef’s kiss, and there’s nobody whom shouldn’t see it as such
Your story means nothing without pics of the car! 🙂
Just Google “The Homer Car” and you will see plenty.
Oh no! One fan almost wrapped their Toyota kinda like our race car.
Won’t someone please think of our brand dilution!
That fact that your comment posted right before LTDScott’s is just perfect.
the internet was a mistake.
Holy Hell, the only thing worse than the overprotection of IP rights in this case, was being forced to read 844 words before getting to the goddamn point of the article (the screenshots).
Seems like everyone needs to calm down a bit.
Hugs all around!
The way it comes across has all the tact of Disney sending the same sort of message to everyone dressed as a Marvel character at Comicon.
These people are your biggest fans, they’re not using this to generate income, they are the pepole who watch, who care and most importantly actually pay to go to the events.
Everyone at this point know exactly what predatory corpoate rent seeking smells and tastes like and this smacks of it. You know what people hate more than they like you or your small time motorsport? Predatory corporate rent seeking. If they can’t read the room, they deserve the hate, and the sport deserves the hit. Motorsports are already exclusionary – cars are EXPENSIVE. This isn’t baskeball where you need a ball and some shoes, or a baseball where you need a ball glove and a bat.
I understand the protection of IP is an enforceable necessity, but this just feels like a continuation of the enshitification of everything.
Also, I understand it’s rich coming from the commentariat on an enthusiast automotive website but as someone who grew up without the money for any kind of powersports (I never thought of myself as hard up by a long strech) my tolerance for this kind of shit from the rich kids club that is EVERY form of motor racing, they earned all of this L.
Ha, see my comment above.
The AVG would like a word with these clowns (who got it from the British who got it from Germans in North Africa, IIRC, but they made it the most popular and it didn’t hurt that the P-40 wore it so well). Her tribute looks more like the very common shark face than their goofy dinosaur variant (how very original! Truly creative geniuses) and I would have never made the connection without her stating it was a tribute. Hell, I had teeth on my ’84 Subaru back in the early ’90s and they were 3D.
I must say, the teeth on the FR-S looked much better than expected.