Show us Motorsports (2)

This is the second edition of "Show us Motorsports"

Previous part 1 can be found here.

A couple more odd combinations

Lotus and a Mini


Pinto!? and a Porche
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EK, first shot turned out very nice, as you already said for a 1/30 shutter. You must have a very steady hand and lots of panning practice. What kind of car is this, some sort of Mazda formula 3 car?

OK as promised I've edited my shots from the DTM (Deutsche Toeringwagen Meisterschaft, German salooncar championships) on the fantastic circuit of Zandvoort (F1 raced here till 1985). The track is situated in the Dunes near to Amsterdam which gives it a great athmosphere but due to the fences and commercial stuff a lousy place to take pictures. Only suitable actually for panning shots if you don't have a pass to get near the track.

So the following will all be panning shot, which I now reasonably master, but they get a bit boring in the end. So to get some extra tension in the shots I did some extreme cropping which (e.g. tilted or lots of air, which is beautifull in Holland). If you have more tips to get these type of shots more exciting please let me know.

All shot with an A700 using a 80-200APO or a 50mm F/1.4 at shutterspeeds between 1/80 to 1/125, iso100 and manual focus. Comments are ofcourse welcome.

1. High speed overtake in the Porsche supercup support series.


2. Porsche supercup winner from Holland (Jeroen Bleekemolen), ofcourse he has the home advantage but is a very reknown Porsche works driver.


3. F3 Euroseries support series, extreme crop to show the clouds.


4. Another F3 car with a slightly differend crop.


Then some pictures of the main series, the DTM. Don't get fooled by the saloon car looks, these are full racecars. They have a tubular frame with a big V8 4 liter engine producing around 490HP weighing a totall of around 1000kg. This year is a transition year for the new car set-up for next year which will consist of a carbon monocoque design. Next to Audi and Mercedes also BMW and maybe Seat will then enter the series.

5. Gravel excursion.


6. Scheider in the ABT audi car.


7. Suzie Stoddard, daughter of Paul who previous owned the Minardi F1 team and the Minardi USA CART team.


8. Red Bull is everywhere.


9. Chrome Mercedes.


10. Local hero Van der Zande with a badly tuned Mercedes (repost in which I updated the color profile and tweaked the colors slightly).


11. Maiden victory for Mike Rockenfeller in the Audi.


Edited by paso144 - 26 May 2011 at 22:20

Excellent panning gentlemen. A very enjoyable set.

Frank

And a few of mine from a recent round of the V8 Supercars in Perth, including some of the leadup events.

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Cheers, Frank

No 2 is a Holden Commodore. The V8 supercars are basically a Ford vs Holden (General Motors) event. In Australia, you're either a "Ford man" or a "Holden man", sort of like Canon vs Nikon. There's a great deal of rivalry between the teams and the racing is very good to watch. The cars have lots of grunt with lots of very close racing. The car belongs to Jamie Whincup. See his website here.

A bit more about V8 Supercars here.

Cheers, Frank