Silverstone this weekend

[manek]

Here are some of my pics from today - mostly old sports and saloon cars plus the Aston Martins in the Roy Salvadori Trophy, along with a few 1970s F1 cars...

http://www.mda.homedns.org/images/silvclassic/

Taken with a Nikon D70+80-400mm zoom lens and Manfrotto tripod.

[tempus]

Lovely pictures Manek,were you on the infield sporting a 2003 waistcoat or is the lens able to get such pics from the back of the spectator area there? love the pic of the Kurtis it always looks such a fun handful!thanks for sharing.Tempus

[manek]

Thanks! I was opposite Luffield, on the concrete banking in front of the A grandstand. One of the best views at this end of circuit in my view, even if you a bit far from the action, because you can get a view reasonably close to the track and uninterrupted by fencing, unlike Copse or Woodcote.

No waistcoat, unless you count my scruffy gilet...

PS: The pics are unedited except for being converted from RAW to JPG and shrunk to 1024x768. If anyone wants a full-sized original, just let me know.

Edited by manek on Monday 30th July 10:54

[anonymous-user]

manek said:

Thanks! I was opposite Luffield, on the concrete banking in front of the A grandstand. One of the best views at this end of circuit in my view, even if you a bit far from the action, because you can get a view reasonably close to the track and uninterrupted by fencing, unlike Copse or Woodcote.

No waistcoat, unless you count my scruffy gilet...

PS: The pics are unedited except for being converted from RAW to JPG and shrunk to 1024x768. If anyone wants a full-sized original, just let me know.

Edited by manek on Monday 30th July 10:54

i had forgotten how close to the track you can get at woodcote, there was a patch of the terrace which has a fairly small gravel trap before the circuit which was always busy with photographers, especially when they realised a few cars were getting a little sideways on the exit.

from the grandstands you could see all manner of things going on in the cockpits of the pre war cars, levers being pumped and lots of steering input on those big wheels!!

[pugster]

Went on the Sunday. Great day, great weather and a relaxed atmosphere in the paddock made it possible to get up close to some priceless machinery as long as you were sensible.
The Group C cars on display and on track looked and sounded stunning.

Simon Hadfield was pretty darn impressive in the GP Masters race but driver of the day for me was Justin Law. Gave the number 3 Jag hell in keeping up with the 956, the number 3 jag failed so he hoped into the number 32 Jag and gave that some proper welly as well. I was stood between Abbey and bridge and his commtiment through this section was impressive and relentless even though he was realistically only chasing after fourth place.

[anonymous-user]

pugster said:

Went on the Sunday. Great day, great weather and a relaxed atmosphere in the paddock made it possible to get up close to some priceless machinery as long as you were sensible.
The Group C cars on display and on track looked and sounded stunning.

Simon Hadfield was pretty darn impressive in the GP Masters race but driver of the day for me was Justin Law. Gave the number 3 Jag hell in keeping up with the 956, the number 3 jag failed so he hoped into the number 32 Jag and gave that some proper welly as well. I was stood between Abbey and bridge and his commtiment through this section was impressive and relentless even though he was realistically only chasing after fourth place.

Justin was a little cheeky on saturday giving charlie agg a little tap on saturday at brooklands spinning the nissan. it was optimistic at best though the nissan was arguably holding the jag up. i think the nissan was quicker on the straights and the jag faster through the corners which made for an entertaining battle as mark sumpter ran away with it at teh front!!!

[MonkeyHanger]

I was there on Saturday and thoroughly enjoyed it...however the Historic Masters at Brands was better as you're closer to the action than you are at Sillystone.







Jaguar XJR12.

[Cerbman]

Any pics of the 1988 Le Mans winning Jaguar XJR9 please?

[Matt172]

few of my 600 pics from the weekend

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rest of saturday's are here

http://s73.photobucket.com/albums/i227/matt_172/Si...

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rest are here

http://s73.photobucket.com/albums/i227/matt_172/Si...

[Cerbman]

Many thanks.