#poleposition

Tess and Daisy Darrett from Pole Position in an anime art style.

I was playing around with outline colors and this pose just started coming together. I was also trying some new shading techniques with this one. I don't really like how it turned out tbh.

I made this awhile ago but didn't know where to post it. I really messed up on daisy's arm and hand placement, but I really suck at drawing hands, so I just gave up. Same thing for tess's right hand, every time I tried to redraw it, it just kept getting worse. Daisy's shoe looks weird too.

I'm not gonna point out every mistake or I'll be here all day writing this.

I would love a Reboot of the Pole Position franchise that would combine the cannon of the game and cartoon into a multimedia franchise, What do you think?

Sunday points matter. Saturday tells the truth.

This ranking is built around pure qualifying speed, the drivers who can find the last tenth when the track is alive and the pressure is loud. If you love pole fights and the mental side of one lap performance, you will enjoy this one.

Pole position looks like control until the lights go out. This piece tracks the drivers who have been the cleanest Saturday to Sunday closers, the ones who turn P1 into a win often enough to make it feel inevitable.

It is part record book, part 2026 tracking, with the bigger idea sitting underneath it: who actually finishes the weekend when everyone else finds a way to complicate it.

Every now and then qualifying turns into something spooky. Same track, same weather, same cars on paper, and yet one driver pulls a lap that looks like a different category of racing. Corners taken flat that nobody else dared try. Braking points that live millimeters from disaster. Sector times popping purple before the broadcast has time to update the graphic.

This SportsOrca piece is a love letter to those pole laps. The ones where you already knew halfway round that the driver was on something special. Classic onboard views with hands dancing on the wheel. Radio messages where race engineers sound a little stunned. Rivals climbing out of their cars with a small shrug like yeah, there was nothing we could do about that.

If you have ever watched an onboard three times in a row just to understand how the car stayed on the road, this list is going to hit that nerve.