boost monkey - British GT - Rockingham - pics

[ProdigalSon 1]

Spent a slightly cold and rainy afternoon today at Rockingham, watching various car races courtesy of a guest pass furnished by our very own boost monkey :clap:

 

He was working for Team Modena this weekend, and I got some pics of the Team Modena paddock and the GT Championship race :grin:

 

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[ProdigalSon 1]

Some pics of the race itself, taken from about 3 miles away in the stands :roll:

 

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Not a great finish for TM, but notice of the race curtailment wasn't passed to the teams by the race officials, which makes strategy a bit useless!

[Adz The Rat 0]

Great pics, look a top day out.

What camera have you used for them?

[ProdigalSon 1]

Thanks Adz, I used a Nikon D50 camera back, with a 18-70mm zoom lens for the in-garage shots, and a 70-300mm zoom for the track shots - that long lens has the Vibration Reduction gadget built in, which is the mutts nuts :grin: Without it most of those long shots would be just colourful blurs... :roll:

 

Still wanting a D300 though... *hides window as wife walks in the room* :lol: Was a top day though, just a shame it was such dull weather.

[boost monkey 0]

:salute:

 

Yeah wasn't a great day due to TONS of issues (not making excuses!) but we did get a podium spot yesterday. #11 is the brand new Gallardo recently sprayed up in the on-site booth back in Wycombe, but luckily already race prepped to GT3 by Reiter Engineering from whom the car came. In fact I have an interesting story to tell about a very spontaneous trip to COlogne to get some lambo parts...but that is for another time :|

 

#21 is the car that flipped at Oulton. Recently placed on the jig and straightened out (we have the only one outside of Automobili Lamborghini in Italia) and re-prepped to the same spec.

 

Will elaborate when I haven't just returned home from a 4-day 48-hour working race weekend! :salute:

[ProdigalSon 1]

:salute:

Hope you like the pics, I've got hi-res too :wink:

 

#21 is the car that flipped at Oulton. Recently placed on the jig and straightened out (we have the only one outside of Automobili Lamborghini in Italia) and re-prepped to the same spec.

:shock: That's pretty amazing. You pulled a Gallardo back into shape?! :doc: :bonk: :notworthy:

 

Will elaborate when I haven't just returned home from a 4-day 48-hour working race weekend! :salute:

Would love to hear the inside scoop on how the day went down, as some of it was a bit surreal watching it from the stands... :scratch: :shrug: :confused4:

[Adz The Rat 0]

Thanks Adz, I used a Nikon D50 camera back, with a 18-70mm zoom lens for the in-garage shots, and a 70-300mm zoom for the track shots - that long lens has the Vibration Reduction gadget built in, which is the mutts nuts :grin: Without it most of those long shots would be just colourful blurs... :roll:

 

Still wanting a D300 though... *hides window as wife walks in the room* :lol: Was a top day though, just a shame it was such dull weather.

Cool thanks, I really really want a SLR so like to know what takes great pics.

Hopefully Mrs Rat is gettin me one for xmas

[boost monkey 0]

Jacked in the lambo job today, WAY too many 10-12 hour days for what seems to be ~£4 an hour if my maths is any good.

 

Knock Hill and Rockingham were fun, but as a summer job? no thanks.