the estimated auction price for this painting by Gerald Laing is about 400,000 British pounds, probably more than the actual race car,........ thank you Steve!

Seen in the cockpit of  "Lotus in the Sunset"  is the unmistakable tartan-adorned helmet of Jackie Stewart, while the vehicle itself is the iconic Lotus 49 Ford Cosworth immortalised by Jim Clark.

The smoking wheel of the Lotus demonstrates his signature replication of halftone dots used in printing – a method he first developed in 1962. The halftone method utilises dots of differing size to recreate an image, whereas the Ben-Day process adopted by Laing’s contemporary Roy Lichtenstein uses dots of the same proportion.

https://www.christies.com/en/lot/lot-6340162

1969,  New York,  Oil on canvas,  60 x 216 inches

Commissioned for the Victory Circle Clubroom of the Ontario Motor Speedway, California by David Lockton in 1969. 

then owned by Vel’s Parnelli Jones Collection, California, 1981.

Featured extensively in the 1971 George Hamilton Evel Knievel movie

http://geraldlaing.org/works/lotus_in_the_sunset

Here's the nebulous and abstract paragraph definition of the painting, by the artist, which seem to me to be a lot of hyperbole and floof to push the artist's marketing price and branding:

‘It was a systematic and pseudoscientific method of constructing a human image which disintegrated into its separate dots on close examination, and coagulated to become legible when seen from a distance. There was no accident of brushwork and no illusory atmospheric space. In that particularly it can be seen as a reaction against the vague and speculative content of Abstract Expressionist paintings’