One of those photos you were lucky to be in the right place at the right time threads

rhodopsin · 25 Oct 2007, 23:48 (Ref:2051595)

This is one of my lucky moments and rather lucky it didn't decapitate me or one of the Marshals

MikeHoyer · 26 Oct 2007, 09:59 (Ref:2051838)

For me I would say this one, and the associated sequence that goes with it (took about 15 shots of the accident!). There was a few other photographers there, but some missed it, and I got the best view - along with a double page in Autosport, and the front cover of motorsport news...

minimangler · 26 Oct 2007, 10:11 (Ref:2051847)

Well, as far as I can tell noone else got this one;
http://a767.ac-images.myspacecdn.com...b03ada0eae.jpg

And i've not seen too many of this, quite this dramatic

http://a933.ac-images.myspacecdn.com...5092522934.jpg

And finally...I admit, I got three chances at this one, in 5 laps!
http://a29.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/...4ae4b9b79c.jpg

MikeHoyer · 26 Oct 2007, 10:16 (Ref:2051852)

I got the second one

http://www.flickr.com/photos/mdh-pho...7602046450946/

Dad's Lad · 26 Oct 2007, 13:26 (Ref:2051998)

Not a great photo, especially when shown small, but this is one I got. I didn't feel that lucky as you can probably tell which way it headed moments later. Thankfully there is a similar bank on this side.

I thought I'd add a scene setter to give an idea how close rhodopsin was to the flying bonnet (from a different run, rhodopsin not in the photo)

andy_b · 26 Oct 2007, 13:27 (Ref:2051999)

i have a picture somewhere from a FoCA test at Silverstone around 2001 when Eddie Irvine came out of his Jag pit garage, spun and ended up facing up the pitlane. I'll see if I can dig it out

minimangler · 26 Oct 2007, 13:31 (Ref:2052002)

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Originally Posted by andy_b

i have a picture somewhere from a FoCA test at Silverstone around 2001 when Eddie Irvine came out of his Jag pit garage, spun and ended up facing up the pitlane. I'll see if I can dig it out

Sounds like an irvine thing to do...

redshoes · 26 Oct 2007, 17:23 (Ref:2052189)

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Originally Posted by minimangler

Well, as far as I can tell noone else got this one;
http://a767.ac-images.myspacecdn.com...b03ada0eae.jpg

You're joking, right?

He went around like that for several laps. The 2 pics above were taken 7 mins apart, and as I recall he carried on for several minutes more. I think everyone in the Abbey grandstand got at least one shot.

I'll go for this one

TFHarv · 26 Oct 2007, 19:05 (Ref:2052270)

got this one this year he even managed to finish in the points ( 5th or 7th )

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brands · 26 Oct 2007, 19:36 (Ref:2052298)

After a spin into the Combe corn field

http://www.btinternet.com/~john_56/IMG_1354.jpg

http://www.btinternet.com/~john_56/IMG_1355.jpg

http://www.btinternet.com/~john_56/IMG_1356.jpg

rdjones · 26 Oct 2007, 20:31 (Ref:2052341)

Rodolfo Gonzalez thought it would be nice idea to take trip into the gravel trap at the Old Hairpin at World Series by Renault meeting at Donington in September 2005.

http://www.rdj-pics.co.uk/Photos/200...s/Renaul07.jpg

The photo featured in that weeks Motorsport News.

DWA · 26 Oct 2007, 21:07 (Ref:2052373)

Several really but 2 from last Sunday at Brands Hatch as they are recent.

275 GTB-4 · 26 Oct 2007, 23:16 (Ref:2052432)

Wonder what they had to say to each other??

(track runs right to left

)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...seSpinners.jpg

MPA · 27 Oct 2007, 07:21 (Ref:2052522)

Race car and spare. Early practice for the Aust Grand Prix.

Why do you buy two Jags?

http://i190.photobucket.com/albums/z...ag/twojags.jpg

Same fault stopped both cars on the 1st lap out.

And on the same corner.

We managed to give the cars back at the end of the session without adding to the damage that the designers and mechanics had already done.

btcckid · 27 Oct 2007, 08:15 (Ref:2052537)

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Originally Posted by DWA

Several really but 2 from last Sunday at Brands Hatch as they are recent.

great shots, can i add them to my psp? and other pics on here as well?

MPA · 27 Oct 2007, 08:57 (Ref:2052543)

Great shots DWA. I see that formula ford drivers are the same all over the world.

minimangler · 27 Oct 2007, 11:36 (Ref:2052593)

Fine by me, BTCC kid.
you can have anything from my flickr on my psp if you want;
www.flickr.com/photos/jymp

And Brands; you're winning so far, loving those shots.
And Mike's sequence is just as good.

mattbull · 27 Oct 2007, 12:32 (Ref:2052611)

These are probably still my best example of the right place at the right time pics. Jason Elliott back in 1992 or 3 at the Old Hairpin at Donington. Brake failure during qualifying - Taken from the spectator enclosure, long before I did photography for a living. Probably a good job I was in the spectator enclosure!

Matt

MikeHoyer · 27 Oct 2007, 15:45 (Ref:2052720)

Quote:

Originally Posted by rdjones

Rodolfo Gonzalez thought it would be nice idea to take trip into the gravel trap at the Old Hairpin at World Series by Renault meeting at Donington in September 2005.

http://www.rdj-pics.co.uk/Photos/200...s/Renaul07.jpg

The photo featured in that weeks Motorsport News.

Gonzalez seems to like rolling cars... (that's him in my sequence at Monza in case you didn't realise)

btcckid · 27 Oct 2007, 16:16 (Ref:2052730)

Quote:

Originally Posted by minimangler

Fine by me, BTCC kid.
you can have anything from my flickr on my psp if you want;
www.flickr.com/photos/jymp.

thanks, will put some on, great quality shots
is that u doing the art -cos thats brilliant!

Tim the Grey · 27 Oct 2007, 20:51 (Ref:2052862)

Reminds me of Mario Andretti's comment after his Lotus was extracted from the old Silverstone wheatfields years ago...

"Don't fix it, just export it to Russia!"

btcckid · 28 Oct 2007, 10:30 (Ref:2053133)

Quote:

Originally Posted by minimangler

Fine by me, BTCC kid.
you can have anything from my flickr on my psp if you want;
www.flickr.com/photos/jymp.

just to say thanku- i save alot onto my psp-great with the slanted look, i always do that when i take photos on my gran turismo 4, it makes the pics much better

minimangler · 28 Oct 2007, 14:55 (Ref:2053313)

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Originally Posted by btcckid

just to say thanku- i save alot onto my psp-great with the slanted look, i always do that when i take photos on my gran turismo 4, it makes the pics much better

Cheers mate, and yeah, they're all taken by me

Tim Hull · 4 Nov 2007, 15:01 (Ref:2059327)

Quote:

Originally Posted by Dad's Lad

Not a great photo, especially when shown small, but this is one I got. I didn't feel that lucky as you can probably tell which way it headed moments later. Thankfully there is a similar bank on this side.
http://www.chevronbar.co.uk/gall2/ma...serialNumber=2

Its a great picture for me because I was on post. The picture does not show how heavy the impact was. Thankfully the driver was fine and he managed to get over the finish line with a very wobbly wheel. This was one of four incidents in a very short space of time, one of which looked more like a scene from a plane crash and another turning over. For those familiar with marshalling at Shelsley, there is an occurrence called 'Top S Twitch', and this was one of those days when there was plenty.

**Snapper Baz** · 7 Nov 2007, 10:11 (Ref:2061941)

Matt...you should have been the other side of the barrier for that sequence !! Here's a few of mine...I was walikng past Richard Petty's motor home where he was watching tv (it pulls out ofits own little side door in the vehicle!) and so took this shot of the "King"...my friend and new 2007 Ford Saloon Car champion Olly Allen destroying his Fiesta at the Hairpin at Mallory a few years ago...and also George "Starwars" Lucus getting out of his wrecked Scion at LongBeach this year after a lady driver tried unsuccessfully to get his autograph!...unfortunately I was too close to get all the accident in the viewfinder!!

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