Sunday's Roast

[Carn]

So this past Sunday I was treated to a roast....Roasting of my frikken ass at the A1 GP

Even though we had tickets for seats under some shade net covers we still got crisped to hell. Heck my face feels like dried out leather, I was even contemplating some 303 to restore the leathers suppleness but I chickened out for fear of any adverse reactions to my fried epidermis

Anyways enough kak praat, here are a selection of the better pics I managed to snap from our seats



Some pre-race pit action





What have we here ?








Man do these things sound befok



Some A1 cars leaving the pits on the formation lap




Some action on the grid prior to the start




Thatisall


Moments before the start, man what an experience when they all fire up those engines...Gave me goosebumps


Chequered flag


The Sprint Race winner, Jeroen Bleekemolen





Some more cars leaving the pits for the main race




Start of the main race



Some pit stop action


Some race pics, hats off to the guys who manage to snap the cars in action. It must take lots of practice and skill to get decent shots, out of all 900 odd photo's only a handfull of race ones were even remotely useable




Rain on the way towards the end of the main race when we left


Will upload some clips of the start to Youtube as soon as I have some time

Enjoy !

[freerider]

some really cool pics dave! glad to see you included some GP girls

[Woodie]

Nice photos Dave - taking pics of high speed action is definitely an art. The photos produced by photographers at F1 races always leave me speechless because I know how difficult it is.

[08micsta]

Awesome pics!

I think the A1 Grand Prix is soon going to be more popular than the F1 version.

Its a great sport.

Mike

[calypso]

Wow, i never knew they would bring FXX's. I wonder what's the perfprmace difference between the FXX and the A1 car.

[springbok]

Looks like a fun day. Well done on the pics.

[Woodie]

(24-02-2009 07:53 AM)calypso Wrote:  Wow, i never knew they would bring FXX's. I wonder what's the perfprmace difference between the FXX and the A1 car.

Not sure on the actual performance stats, but one of the posters on carforums said he did informal lap times on the FXX. Not sure how hard the FXX drivers were pushing but he timed them lapping at 1:58's versus average of 1:32's for the A1 top 10 runners.