Oh yeah! Lovely shots. Reminds me of my teenage years, going to
Mosport here in Ontario to see F1's, Can-Ams, F5000's, etc. Love the
shot of the Mini Cooper! I remember watching them in the preliminary
races. We'd always go to Moss Corner (the hairpin), to watch them lift
their inside rear wheel as they cornered hard, under full braking. The
higher the wheel went up, the louder the crowd cheered. And if they
could get both inside wheels off the ground (rare, but it happened), the
crowd went nuts!
And that Porsche 907. Predecessor to the 917, which in its short-tailed
version, in full Gulf-Mirage regalia, was imho, the loveliest race car
ever to see a track. And the Can-Am turbo 917! I watched Mark Donahue
destroy the competition at Mosport in (I think) '73 in that car. Oh
well, enough waxing nostalgic...
Suffice to say, I enjoyed your gallery.
regards,
frank
Stephen Moore wrote:
> I've just finished hanging an online one-man exhibit of sorts here:
>
> http://www.fred.net/essmo/marrc/2001/j5-2001.html
>
> I'm offering it to the list for general amusement,
> constructive criticism, and especially as a kind of
> progress report and thank-you to all who responded
> to a thread I started back in April, called "The Mental Game."
> As I've been climbing the learning curve, your words
> posted here have been incredibly helpful.
>
> This set of pages is a link off the news section of
> the Mid-Atlantic Roadracing Club's website. (MARRC is an
> organization of motorcycle roadracers and corner workers,
> some of whom are also into cars to various degrees.) The
> pages are basically journalistic, thus a bit wordy, but
> are fairly typical of the bike race reports on MARRC's site.
>
> Except for a Sigma 35-70/2.8-4 zoom (sweet little lens, BTW,
> now dying of fungus), all gear was Pentax:
> * later LX with winder and FA-1, early K1000
> * 70-210 f/4 SMC-A, 300 f/4 SMC-M*, 400 f/2.8 SMC-A* ED(IF)
> * AF400T used for fill in some paddock shots
>
> Everything was scanned from 4x6 on an HP 6300C and tweaked
> with Paint Shop Pro 6. (Man, I've got a lot of learning curves
> to climb!)
>
> Enjoy! (Comments welcome)
>
> Stephen Moore
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