Hi Mat, On Mon, 3 Oct 2005 20:58:18 -0400, Mat Maessen wrote:
> Excellent shooting. I saw that incident on the TV feed, but it > was not nearly as clear what happened as it is in your sequence. Yeah, I had a really good spot to see it happening, through the lens, of course. :-) Between that incident and the stunt he pulled at the last restart during the Atlanta Grand Prix, I haven't been very impressed with Mr. Lehto lately. I've updated the narrative, and I think it's almost in final form. > Glad you weren't hit by flying race car parts. I've been in the > same situation before (SCCA corner worker). I'm also a corner worker, as is my brother. I _did_ catch some gravel, too. :-) Actually, I saw the lead trio come out from behind the turn one flag station and could tell something bad was happening, so I held down the shutter release and tried to track the cars. As the dust cloud got bad (just before the fifth shot), gravel started raining down on me. After a few dozen milliseconds it dawned on me that something bigger than pea gravel might be coming through all that dust, so I dropped like a rock. :-) TTYL, DougF KG4LMZ
