Motorsport photos

[Klyntonius]

Hi Davide!


It was a beautiful weekend for racing.

If you don't like the food, then cook your own!


New Yamaha model for 2014...

Err, art shot? (damn focus!)

 

[Klyntonius]

Leon Camier is 6 foot tall and all arms and legs. It makes for spectacular viewing...



...especially coming onto the straight!

Tom Sykes did well to post 5-5 results with a fractured wrist.



He's out to make amends for missing last years title by half a point.

 

[Klyntonius]

Chaz Davies is tall, like Camier, and his style is to very much hang off the bike.

Johnny Rea finally has a fast teammate this year in Leon Haslam and whilst they get along, it would not have pleased him to be beaten by Leon.

Carlos Checa here is a textbook picture on a weekend where he was fast but won't remember it...



...from when he crashed and knocked himself unconscious...

...and took Melandri down with him. Here Marco shows his concern for his fallen adversary.

 

[imadodgyumpire]

Another trip to Phillip Island, for the first round of the Victorian State Circuit Racing Championship. It's actually the same meeting that kicked this thread off from last year. Now that we've done a whole year, I won't show so many photos as I would when I go to the same meetings as before, unless there's heaps of action shots, a new, unique car/s or I'm going to a new meeting. I won't be going to all the same events, since I didn't completely enjoy all of them, so there won't be a huge repeat of last year.

There was a short shower in the morning, just before racing was to start. It affected the track for the first two races of the morning, Historic Touring cars and Formula Fords.

The first photo gets shown because no.23 was a demon in the wet. Here, he's passing the big XY GT. Then caught up with an Escort that was a little way further down for a top 5 finish, in the first race.



no.3 loses momentum after wrestle with the Evans car.




A seven car battle for the lead in the Formula Vees.

 

[imadodgyumpire]

 

[imadodgyumpire]

And lastly, the big one!



Here's footage of the accident.

 

[Klyntonius]

Yikes, that's not good for anyone!

 

[DREAM TEAM BUFF]

Nasty

 

[imadodgyumpire]

Alright, back at Sandown for r2 of the Vic state series. I actually considered not going, until I found out found the organising club (MG Car Club), was going to open up the area from Dandenong rd to the last corner. It's rarely opened, don't know many more times it will get an opportunity, so I took advantage of it. Luckily for me, got to see some thrills and spills, when I otherwise wouldn't have.

 

[imadodgyumpire]

So, a few seconds after that Falcon stopped to a rest...



It was bad enough for this bloke to stuff up his race on his own.




But then as a result, the waved yellow was bought out. The lead pack came hammering down Dandenong rd to see the yellow for the first time. It was easy for the first few cars to slow down. But there were more than a few...A lot more...



These two weren't even together. The white one was 4th or 5th, and he was trying to avoid the cars immediately in front. The red car was 7th or 8th. Both clouted the wall, but it wasn't til close to the end they touched each other.

 

[imadodgyumpire]

This photo is a split second away from contact. You saw it coming miles away. The guy in the Starlet was having a bad day. Later on in the race, he bought out the safety car after having an accident on his own at the other side of the circuit. It did not appear in what would've been it's second race of the day.



How on earth these two did not touch, let alone have a major prang, I will never know! You see both coming out of the chicane and I thought "Here we go!" But nothing happened...NUTHIN!



These two I was expecting to touch. But got donuts as well.



It's late in the race now. The bloke in the Commodore spun on his own oil, I think. On the last lap (these are the last corners, if you didn't know), the bloke in a BF Falcon, who was leading by light years, then spun on that oil and almost bogged himself on the grass!




Lucky for him he did have big lead. In other classes, he would've struggled to make to top 10.

Anyway, after this thread lay dormant for a while, the Shannons Nationals are on a PI next week. I wonder if I'll see a smashed in Merc?

 

[imadodgyumpire]

Ok, back at PI for the first of two meetings the Shannons Nationals have at PI. Looking at the program, I wasn't expecting much, since it wasn't the same as other Shannons events I'm used to, or even better that Vic state rounds. The feature race was called the "Great Southern 4 hour" for the Australian Manufacturers Championship (Production cars). 4 hour production car races don't get me going, but it wasn't as bad as I was anticipating. Anyway...



I did not see a smashed in Merc this time. However I did see a new paint job and I did see it dominate the race. A teenager I think, named Jack Lebrocq. Pounded them.



Tony Quinn (2nd) gets uploaded because of this new car and it's paint job.



His son Klark (3rd), in the Porsche. Last year's champ. It was not til now I uploaded a photo of him.



If any of you go to PI for whatever race. For the big, powerful, fast cars, sitting at the entry into Stoner's corner is not a bad place to have a look at them. You're closeish to the track, they're going at full bore, and the track is at head height.

 

[imadodgyumpire]

The GT race was an hour. After the pit window closed (around the 40 minute mark) KQuinn and John Bowe (sharing the car with an amateur) had a monster battle for the rest of the race.



The start of the 4 hour.



Hehehe, Safe T Stop!



Imagine, any of us teaming up for a 4 hour race, only for one of us to crash it 10 minutes into it?

 

[imadodgyumpire]

In the 4 hour, the race was won by a guy named Bob Pearson (some of you may remember he raced V8 supercars before they were called V8 supercars) and Glenn Seton. Seton absolutely tore up the track! At the start, the car was running 4th, 5th with Pearson. Some reliability helped them up the order. But in the last hour, Seton was on another planet. Broke the lap record by nearly 2 seconds!



The Mazda finished 3rd. It was the best looking car, best paint job. I want to drive it. It gets uploaded. edit: Carolina Panthers colours too.



This is how dark it got at the end. There was also some drizzle to.



Seton taking the chequer.

 

[imadodgyumpire]

Sandown state round. The common story was a fford or vee would slip into the gravel trap at Dandenong rd, huge pack of cars would come steaming in under yellow, the front running cars would go through the corner ok, but the guys at the back would get caught out and slip off on their own. Sometimes it would even be a car a little behind the back of the pack. After a while it became predictable and funny.

The one on the left is Leanne Tander.



This wasn't a collision between 3 cars. The blue & white one spun on it's own, then the other two couldn't slow down quick enough and slipped off, They weren't even together, 3 separate slides.

 

[imadodgyumpire]

Part 1



Part 2



Not satisfied with punting another bloke off, this guy smack the wall coming out of the esses all on his own.

 

[imadodgyumpire]

Here are some other photos I wanted to upload yesterday, before I had to suddenly leave.

A Daewoo. You spend the cash and effort to go racing in a Daewoo? I suppose I would, if I had nothing else though.



Battle to avoid being last in the Saloons. The Falcon was closing in quickly late. But they then they were getting lapped, so the Commodore was able to pull away. Lucky.



Later on, I think the GT-R lost a turbo. Flaming underneath the car as it rolled into the pits.

 

[imadodgyumpire]

Since I'm on BF. I'll just say I'm heading to PI right now.

 

[imadodgyumpire]

Ok, like I said, back at PI yesterday. This is how the conditions were for the first race of the day.





I was watching In Pit Lane on Tuesday night . The host was talking about how good F3 cars are going through the first corner and Lukey heights. So I thought "Oh yeah, when I go, I'll go there and see for myself." Man, they were fantastic through Doohan corner! A real buzz! Phenomenal! Thery're pretty good through lukey heights as well, but you stand further back there, so you don't get as big a thrill.

 

[imadodgyumpire]

A bit of a swamp.



So I'm taking a photo of this car.



Then this happens behind him!

 

[imadodgyumpire]

This is actually Jason Akermanis.



He competes in the 250 national class;

http://racing.natsoft.com.au/636609593/object_7866448.86U/Meet?65

 

[imadodgyumpire]

I 't know if you guys buy Auto Action ( I rarely do). In this week's edition, if you have a look in a newsagent or petrol station, look at page 43. There's the report on F3. There's a small picture of 1/2 dozen F3 cars. In the background, there's a bloke standing on his own. That bloke is me

 

[DREAM TEAM BUFF]

I 't know if you guys buy Auto Action ( I rarely do). In this week's edition, if you have a look in a newsagent or petrol station, look at page 43. There's the report on F3. There's a small picture of 1/2 dozen F3 cars. In the background, there's a bloke standing on his own. That bloke is me

Well it's worth buying this week then

 

[imadodgyumpire]

Got a fair run on Speedweek. If you see replays of it on foxtel, there's the on-board footage of the F3 accident I took. If you notice a person wearing a white jacket, that's me.

 

[imadodgyumpire]

FWIW, I've just come back from PI. I can't be bothered uploading photos. I'm busy all day tomorrow. Not too many to show. Will do it whenever.