What an AMAZING event. A non-stop stream of Porsche Racing history!!
For this gallery I’m going to simply upload anything that looked suitable to post. Most of these are in chronological order from the event on 27-SEP-2015.
I hope you enjoy looking at these; they were a joy to experience first hand.
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:
I shot over 500 photos yesterday at ALMS qualifying and practice. Here are few of those shots:
This happened early in the first qualifying session. The British, known for finding ways to make things leak, make the Jaguar, which dumped most of it’s oil on the track in the first turn:
The first one was basically me. On the wall of my bedroom, I have a pencil drawing of a 911 I did in high school.
VIDEO: → Porsche – The Boy
The second is the introduction video for the 993 (that last one I owned, so far). The cool thing was that I’d found the audio for the video, tossed it on my iPod and played it on my trip to CA. It just happened to start playing these tracks as I drive through the tree archway into Napa on a great sunny day. One of those top-25 memories I’ll die with.
VIDEO: →993-Are You Listening (1995)