Les 24 Heures du Silverstone ;)

[GSH]

More commonly known as the Britcar 24 :lol:

Silverstone served up some fantastic weather, although it comletely ruined my well-planned sunrise shots up by being covered in thick fog at 5am on Sunday...4 hours behind the Safety car ensued thus giving the organisers an idea for next year. The British Safety Car endurance cup ! :D

This year's overall winners, the Duller Motorsport Team in their BMW Z4M Coupe, shot over the top of the fence on the banking overlooking the exit of Club Corner.

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/geoff.hubbert/Pics/Britcar%2024/IMG_9923.jpg

There was some lovely early evening sunshine on Saturday for the early part of the race. This is last year's winning car, the Moslser GT3RS of Rollcentre Racing. Unfortunately everything that went right for them last year went wrong in a big way this year.

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/geoff.hubbert/Pics/Britcar%2024/IMG_9792.jpg

Team Scandal also had a torrid time in their Prosport LM3000 and at one point they lost a wheel !

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/geoff.hubbert/Pics/Britcar%2024/IMG_0508.jpg

Team 911Virgin.com led for a good part of the night, through the fog-bound early hours of Sunday and were looking good for a podium finish until the Northamptonshire Gremlins got hold of their 911 GT3 Cup..

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/geoff.hubbert/Pics/Britcar%2024/IMG_9747.jpg

The other Mosler GT3RS, belonging to Eclipse Motorsport

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/geoff.hubbert/Pics/Britcar%2024/IMG_0173.jpg

A bit of Aussie V8 Muscle. The #25 Ford Falcon GT3 which managed to finish in....25th place.

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/geoff.hubbert/Pics/Britcar%2024/IMG_9697.jpg


Into the night...

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/geoff.hubbert/Pics/Britcar%2024/IMG_0102.jpg

The #77 Honda Civic Type R managed to finish in a superb 7th overall. Considering it was up against some very expensive machinery indeed it's a very impressive result for a clog on wheels :D

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/geoff.hubbert/Pics/Britcar%2024/IMG_0037.jpg

C&C welcome, thanks for looking. A full gallery is online (link in sig as per usual)

I'll post some shots from the Motor Racing Legends and Dutch Supercars later.

[Dave_G]

those are tip top Geoff mate

the Z4 rocks

what's that coming out of the Ford Falcon up the back? fuel filler....?

[GSH]

those are tip top Geoff mate

the Z4 rocks

what's that coming out of the Ford Falcon up the back? fuel filler....?


Cheers Dave :)

It's either fuel from the overflow or hydraulic fluid from the on-board Jack system i think.

[Dave_G]

ta.

[Trung_EP3CTR]

Nice shots Geoff
I can never get tired looking at the Dullar MS Z4M, it's well 'phat' :lol:
That Ford Ford Falcon GT3 was running throttle bodies.
I'm so pleased that Cartune Racing CTR finished top in it's class, after all it's managed and part driven by my track driving instructor.

Do you use a seperate flash gun for the night shots?
What ISO setting did you use?

[KevB]

Great shots Geoff, the Z4M is the pic of the bunch for me:D

[petrolhead]

I like the Z4 pic

I also like the last one, very different

Out of interest do you use your 28-135 much

[GSH]

Thanks everyone :)




Do you use a seperate flash gun for the night shots?
What ISO setting did you use?

Yep, i had the Sigma 500 Super whatever they call it on the camera for the flash shots. I'd like to have been a bit closer but fences are fences :rolleyes: . ISO on the posted shots was 3200.



Out of interest do you use your 28-135 much

Not a great deal to be honest Peter but that's more to do with what i shoot most than any problem with the lens. I bought the 15-30 last year and i've hardly used that too. I've been thinking of changing to a 24-70 f2.8 or 24-105L IS.

[jmarsz]

Love the night pics!

[petrolhead]

I've been thinking of changing to a 24-70 f2.8 or 24-105L IS.Oh no! Not that quandry :)

I have thinking about replacing my 17-85 with one of those but unsure which one

[Croasdail]

Nice variety of cars out there.... nicely shot.

[Cadwell]

I've been thinking of changing to a 24-70 f2.8 or 24-105L IS.Oh no! Not that quandry :)

I have thinking about replacing my 17-85 with one of those but unsure which one

It depends what you want the lens for. I used to use the Tamron 28-75mm f/2.8 as a pits/paddock lens but nowadays I use the 24-105L IS. It's a much better length at the long end for driver candids and with the IS I can use it at much lower light levels in pit garages than an f/2.8 AND get a useful depth of field.

Goods shots, btw, Geoff. The Beamer coming out of Club is my favourite.

[petrolhead]

It depends what you want the lens for. I used to use the Tamron 28-75mm f/2.8 as a pits/paddock lens but nowadays I use the 24-105L IS. It's a much better length at the long end for driver candids and with the IS I can use it at much lower light levels in pit garages than an f/2.8 AND get a useful depth of field. Cheers

Thats what I am leaning to

[GSH]

It depends what you want the lens for. I used to use the Tamron 28-75mm f/2.8 as a pits/paddock lens but nowadays I use the 24-105L IS. It's a much better length at the long end for driver candids and with the IS I can use it at much lower light levels in pit garages than an f/2.8 AND get a useful depth of field.

Goods shots, btw, Geoff. The Beamer coming out of Club is my favourite.

Cheers Glenn. I quite like that angle at Club. Even though you're above the cars there it doesn't look too bad. I made a rare venture into the world of Manual mode over the weekend too with some nice results (not posted though :D ). I'll be experimenting a bit more in future.

My reasoning for the 24-105L stems from sheer laziness. If i can't be bothered carrying a load of kit i could pack the 24-105 and 100-400 and have almost every eventuality covered :D

[Cadwell]

I have lots of different camera bag configurations for different events. Track racing gets one combination of lenses, hill climbing another, canoe polo another, rallying yet another… The 24-105mm f/4L seems to end up in all of them – it’s such a useful lens that I don’t like not having it with me. To be honest, I have lots of alternative lenses in the same range as the 24-105mm and most of them are better in some way than it. None of them do everything as well though and short of carrying a huge bag of primes and zooms around “just in case”, the 24-105mm is the best option.

[Monkeymicra]

i like thouse shots.

how come the safety car was out for 4 hours?

the Civic photo, the decals on the side are they refective and lit up cos you used a flash or were they Electro illuminecent (spelling)

[chris78cpr]

Love that Z4M shot.

Nice colletion.

Chris

[GSH]

Thanks for the comments :)

The safety car was sent out due to very thick fog, particularly on the Hangar Straight. The concern was that if anyone went off there was no way the other drivers could see what had happened thus putting Marshals and Drivers at risk.

The stickers are all reflective and lit up by flash. All the pro's were using it so i had a go. I was playing around with power settings just to see how they came out :)