John Francis wrote: > SCCA access is definitely as good as it gets.
It's even better on days when I'm not working corners. :-) The corner captain gets a little put out if I take the full photo kit to the corner with me. All kidding aside, I don't shoot when I'm working ... it's just too dangerous to divide my attention that way. This year, though, I actually have a decent flash to try some night shots at T3, which is about as close as you can get to the moving cars, even on the hot side of the fence. >> http://www.flickr.com/photos/nutdriverlefty/sets/72157594279961969/ > > Love that old Lotus! (Although if it's the tub I think it is, it was > never actually driven by Mario at any Formula One event). I don't know anything about the tub. Even when they do a program for these events, it's usually not that comprehensive or detailed. It might call out one or two cars, but not all of them. > The helmet in the Villeneuve #27 isn't one of Jacques' as far as I know - > was this at a historic event? I assume so, because I recognise several > of the cars, but none of the helmets. I've got a photo of Jacques in > the #27 taken (in 1995) at the last CART race at Loudon, NH, and he was > wearing his distinctive pink & blue helmet colours. Yep, it was at the fall (2005) Atlanta Historics event that the SVRA puts on at Road Atlanta each year. The red and green #40 Tecate car on the grid is an ex-Helio Castroneves car, the #5 Valvoline car was originally driven by someone else well known (I believe). Daynton Duncan often drives the #27 (ex-Villeneuve) at these events and he and some other guy have been duking it out for the overall lap record at Road Atlanta for three or four years, swapping the record twice or three times in one weekend a couple of years ago. There were also a number of nice Can-Am cars, but I didn't get many photos I liked of them. And there was an ex-Schumacher Bennetton B191 that was painted up in the livery for '93 when he won his first World Championship. I'm not sure of the provenance of the #20 Shell car. > I've been putting together a gallery myself, for at least the last > couple of years. Somehow it never seems to get that last bit done. That's why I finally just put a few on my Flickr account. :-) I've started four or five times to write programs to generate my galleries because I never found one that worked like I wanted it to work. But I've never finished them. Heck, I've never even finished doing the hard yards of culling, selecting, and prepping photos for a gallery. :-) -- Thanks, DougF (KG4LMZ) -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
