A1 Grand Prix

[Skyman]

Some of the images from this weekends A1 Grand Prix in Australia. Great new category, excellent racing a great weekend. unfortunately the race finished on an anticlimax due to the crash of Japan's Hayanari Shimoda who fortunately survived spectacularly flipping his car and hitting the concrete wall at close to 200kmh. here are some of my images.

The photographer made me laugh.

The crash is one of many. most incidents happened on turn 2 and i was there to capture them. (being there for practice made this decision easier)

it was nice to see the drivers helping each other out of the cars after they had crashed

and it was nice to see a human moment from a driver as he contemplated the car he had just written off.

[Skyman]

Forgot to post this one. I have literally hundreds of images and since i don't shoot that much motorsport was pleased to know that i can still pan a shot, shutter priority 125/sec 70-200f4l @ 200mm with 2X converter on a 300d with monopod gives me an effective focal length of around 640mm ! i have a few from practice that were sharp with a shutter speed of 1/80th but this was along a straight so the car speed didn't fluctuate as much from car to car.

[JSPhoto]

I have a shot of a driver sitting on the wall scratching his head while a tow truck hooks up to his race car to haul it away after the engine blew. I knew him and told him and he said "I was trying to figure out what happened, I was leading, it was running perfect and boom". Those kinds of shots are powerfull though. No words really needed for them.
Hey, visit the sports forum, theres lots of racing photos there!
JS

[Speed]

Some of the images from this weekends A1 Grand Prix in Australia. Great new category, excellent racing a great weekend. unfortunately the race finished on an anticlimax due to the crash of Japan's Hayanari Shimoda who fortunately survived spectacularly flipping his car and hitting the concrete wall at close to 200kmh. here are some of my images.

The photographer made me laugh.

The crash is one of many. most incidents happened on turn 2 and i was there to capture them. (being there for practice made this decision easier)

it was nice to see the drivers helping each other out of the cars after they had crashed

and it was nice to see a human moment from a driver as he contemplated the car he had just written off.

Cool shots Skyman! Thanks for sharing them.