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Old 17-06-2009, 23:28   #1
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A few of my pics from last weekend, C&C welcome

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Old 18-06-2009, 14:23   #4
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Arg, have inadvertently exported them all in AdobeRGB rather than sRGB so they're all looking a bit duller than they should - will sort it out later tonite.
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NO! This picture means I was either standing next to you at the Drayson garage or no more than two people away. I was there taking the same pictures

What lens/lenses were you using to get in that close for all those shots?

Great piccies by the way, got to get mine online at some point.
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Old 18-06-2009, 19:38   #6
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Looks awesome, do you camp there? Are those funky single seaters faster than F1 cars.
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Old 18-06-2009, 19:55   #7
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NO! This picture means I was either standing next to you at the Drayson garage or no more than two people away. I was there taking the same pictures
Arg! If only we knew what each other looked like, totally forgot you were going or I'd have suggested meeting up somewhere.
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What lens/lenses were you using to get in that close for all those shots?
The pit lane shots were all taken with the Canon 10-22mm, an utterly bonkers lens which I love. The rest are mostly a mixture of that lens and the Canon 70-200 F4 IS.
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Great piccies by the way, got to get mine online at some point.
Thanks and please do, would love to see some more.

On another note, we very nearly bought the farm on Sunday morning!

I'm sure you're aware of Benoit Treluyer's crash in the Pescarolo Peugeot just after the Dunlop bridge in the small hours of Sunday morning. Well we were basically in the line of fire. We'd clambered up the bank behind the catch fencing as you can get right up to the catch fencing there since it's not a proper spectator spot. We were looking the other way when we heard an almighty bang and immediately looked left to see the car flying straight at us. We instinctively ducked and turned away and scrabbled down the bank a few feet as the crash continued and felt bits of debrit and gravel raining down on us!

The aftermath was a mess. The car had bounced along the top of the armco, making three large dents in the process and taking out the marshalls' gantry, which was laying in a twisted heap by the catch fencing. There was bodywork everywhere and the front right wing was laying right in front of us with the number 17 on it, so I immediately knew which car it was.

As they attended to the remains of the car (basically the safety cell with the engine still attached, all other bodywork pretty much destroyed) we caught a glimpse of the driver's helmet before the tarpaulins went up and he appeared to be "lolling" about a bit which didn't look at all good. We were most relieved to find he was ok later on.

There was no warning at all. No screeching of tyres before the first hit. If it had come into the armco just a few feet higher it may well have cleared it and gone straight into the catch fencing that we were immediately behind and I'm quite sure we'd have been seriously injured or killed if that had happened.

A very sobering experience and certainly the closest I've ever been (or would ever hope to be) to a major motorsport crash.
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Old 18-06-2009, 19:57   #8
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Looks awesome, do you camp there? Are those funky single seaters faster than F1 cars.
Yeah we camped in Houx which is behind the pit straight on the inside of the circuit so only a 10 minute walk to the track.

The "funky single seaters" are the prototypes, falling into the two LMP1 and LMP2 classes. They're faster than F1 cars at the top end but not through the corners as they weight 50% more and have slightly less power but are still staggeringly fast.
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Old 18-06-2009, 20:29   #9
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Colourspace now sorted, damn that looks better!
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Old 20-06-2009, 20:07   #10
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Some footage of Benoit Treluyer's crash has finally appeared:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6upFvKLkDw
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