VMAX Armageddon - The picture thread - post your shots here

[autofocus]

Hi there,

Heres the first batch of photos, there all a bit the same as they were taken from the first corner but today I was after nice photos of great cars rather than anything arty farty.

Porsche 930 - pretty nippy after being fitted with a 993 Turbo engine



Another Porsche (there was a few) this time a superb looking 964



Stunning 997 GT2 with Dymag wheels



Back to the early nineties with a Lotus Carlton



Focus RS - a quick car but not in todays company



911teo's very nice Ford GT



Jaguar XKR



Simon George popped by in his LP640



E46 M3 with nice CSL wheels



Supposed to be taking it easy back to the pit area



Another shot of the Carlton



Rare Lamborghini Gallardo Nera limited edition



Noble M12 - still looking good



NSX - one of two running today



Audi R8 V10 - one silver and one black





R35 Skyline GTR - three running today all showing decent speeds



Audi RS6 - theres always plenty of Audis running at VMAX



Doug's SV - nice to see it running in anger what a stunner





Porsche 996 Turbo



Stripped out Audi S4



Godzilla - nice to meet you today David.



Finally was probably going to be the quickest car of the day, glad the occupants are all ok.



Steve (trackdemon) was on site today acting as photographer for VMAX and he did mention that he will post his pics from today up over the next week or so. Please feel free to add any that you took to this thread. I will post the rest of mine tomorrow or Monday.

Regards

Tim

Edited by autofocus on Saturday 13th March 23:32

Edited by Plotloss on Sunday 14th March 22:30

[Cyclone1]

Edited by Plotloss on Sunday 14th March 22:32

[y2blade]

autofocus said:

Hi there,

Heres the first batch of photos, there all a bit the same as they were taken from the first corner but today I was after nice photos of great cars rather than anything arty farty.

Regards

Tim

Edited by autofocus on Saturday 13th March 23:32

very good pictures there Tim
Thank you very much for sharing them with us, shame I couldn't get along to this myself

[s3nick]

My pics of the day

LP640




LP640 SV





LP640 SPYDER



997TT (mine)





997 GT2



RUF CTR3







9FF GT9R





9FF 850



9FF 1000 engine bay


Nissan GTR's




FORD GT



AUDI's






SLR 722



MV AGUSTA



Bit of everything.







Hope you enjoy

Nick.

Edited by s3nick on Sunday 14th March 23:17

Edited by s3nick on Sunday 14th March 23:42

[autofocus]

Hi there,

Next batch from me, still can't get over the stunning cars that were at yesterdays event.

9ff GT9R





and another shot of their GT2



The only Ferrari at the event was this very pretty 599



No apologies for a load of shots of the superb Mercedes SLR 722









Leons RUF CTR-3 was the car of the day for me, the one I would buy if my numbers came up







This was an amazing little touch, turn the ignition on and the rear view camera appears from a little hatch, turn the car off and it disappears again. I suppose its RUF's version of the spirit of ecstacy.



Nice Audi RS4



God I love Lotus Carlton's





This was a good looking car and very rare a Mercedes CLK DTM AMG





Perhaps the strangest pairing of the day



Surprisingly the Defender was quick off the line



Craigs great looking 911.





This 997 GT2 was absolutely gorgeous, love the wheels !





Engine bay of the new record holder - 9ff 996 Convertible



Ford GT roars off the line against an RS4



Another Gallardo



and a Porsche 996 GT2



Porsche 997 GT3 MKII



This was a surprise, an LP640 Roadster - stunning





R8 V10 - does look well in Black



Finally another Porsche this time a 997 Turbo



Regards

Tim

Edited by autofocus on Sunday 14th March 20:06

Edited by Plotloss on Sunday 14th March 22:34

[outnumbered]

Tim - your pictures look really punchy compared to some of the others posted... Do you do a lot of manual postprocessing, or do you have a "recipe" that you apply ? Works well, however you do it.

Edited by outnumbered on Sunday 14th March 21:32

[autofocus]

outnumbered said:

Tim - your pictures look really punchy compared to some of the others posted... Do you do a lot of manual postprocessing, or do you have a "recipe" that you apply ? Works well, however you do it.
tnote]

Hi there,

Thanks for the compliment, the images are all run through photoshop with a pretty similar workflow that includes alterations to curves, shadows and highlights, brightness & contrast and some sharpening.

I tend to do every image in this way as I have never ever had a picture come out of the camera that does not need some amount of work.

Oh I also calibrate my monitor regualrly as well.

Regards

Tim

[JBL930]

Great pics, great day.....Not chuffed with my top speed, but the car will be 100% for the next event!
Sad seeing the 9ff car in a state, what a shame! Any news on what happened? Driver error, some fault somewhere?
That CTR3 is really something in the flesh, very beautiful, great to actually see one! Blown away by a normal looking cab doing 220+, just mental....

Talking of mental, some of the Porsche guys in the states had an event today. Standing start 1 mile jobbie. Eddie Bello managed 236.7mph............IN ONE MILE..............FROM STANDSTILL.......
And this is in a narrow body 964 with an air cooled twin turbo motor...

Edited by JBL930 on Sunday 14th March 22:31

[daveparry]

Well i just wasted 5 minutes of my life looking for the VMax pictures but there was only 1 bike there and that was a race rep, poor show!!!!

[Pesty]

Nice pics Tim

[CraigW]

daveparry said:

Well i just wasted 5 minutes of my life looking for the VMax pictures but there was only 1 bike there and that was a race rep, poor show!!!!

not a bike event sorry Dave.

[Davey S2]

Does anyone know what the 997 GT3 MK2 managed? Cant see it in the results table.

[anniesdad]

Davey S2 said:

Does anyone know what the 997 GT3 MK2 managed? Cant see it in the results table.

Hi Dave, it didn't run. I would have liked to have known too.

[Davey S2]

anniesdad said:

Davey S2 said:

Does anyone know what the 997 GT3 MK2 managed? Cant see it in the results table.

Hi Dave, it didn't run. I would have liked to have known too.

Shame.

Looks like a I missed a good day. I was in Dublin recovering from seeing one of the worst rugby games I have ever seen.

[theboymoon]

Not as good as some but...

Early morning xc hoonage


Grubby for breakfast


1st gathering


Pork


Drivers' brief


Right, let's get on with it


Some familiar scenes
















laptop tuning!


suspicious dent in the grass


p0rn

Edited by Plotloss on Friday 19th March 15:44

[Mario149]

Haha! "WAS 930"...brilliant

[trackdemon]

Have put all my pics here chaps:

http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&a...

[JBL930]

Mario149 said:

Haha! "WAS 930"...brilliant

I thought it was fitting

[anniesdad]

Mine are pretty lame compared to some of the others but here's one I don't think anyone has posted/spotted...



Fuel filler cap on the 9FF 996TT 1000 222mph Bonkers Convertible Tarmac Ripper.

[M3John]

Some cracking pictures here guys. I really must make it along to one of these sometime soon !