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American Le Mans at Laguna Seca

Saturday’s ALMS 6-hour endurance race at Monterey’s famous Laguna Secs was fantastic. The GT class was the most closely contested race I’ve seen in a long time, where the lead changed between the last turn and and the start finish, right in front of the main grandstands! Talk about excitement!

Watching, and photographing racing at night was a first for me. A learning experience, and despite this being my first attempt, I’m still happy with some of the images I was able to capture. Most of that I need to attribute to Canon’s fantastic 200mm f2.8 L glass (which I obtained from the L.A. Times a few years back).

So.. without further yammering, here are just a few of the shots that I’ve processed so far, that I like. Keep in mind that Word Press re-compresses the images so you lose clarity… when I get unlazy enough to replace Word Press with a better CRM (when.. maybe never…) this sort of thing will not be such an irritation to me.

In the mean time, it is what it is, and these are the results:


Astin Martin 007 - The name is Bond, James Bond.
Class champion M3 passing an LMP car entering Turn 2
Porsche 911 GT3 R Hybrid - it completely dominated GT.
One of two Patron Ferraris, this one entering turn 2
LMP entering Turn 2 under the lights
///M3 between turns 1 and 2
Corvette attempting an honorable mention finish, enters turn 2