Rally Show 2009 - Chatsworth House - my pics

[autofocus]

Hi there,

Gave this a miss yesterday because of the weather but got up this morning and thought well its only water.

A great day, lots of superb cars including some WRC, but the main draw for me as always was the Group B cars.

Stayed dry until around 12 midday and then the heavens opened, made for lots of mud spraying round corners etc.

Here are a selection of my shots: -

Well had to start with one from the water splash

http://www.dunlopix.com/Sunbeam070609a.jpg

Mud, Mud Glorius Mud

http://www.dunlopix.com/Quattro070609c.jpg

There was a superb selection of Escorts today

http://www.dunlopix.com/89escort060709a.jpg

Ex Paris-Dakar Peugeot 405 T16 - awesome

http://www.dunlopix.com/405070609e.jpg

Opel - digging deep

http://www.dunlopix.com/Opel070609a.jpg

Porsche 911 GT3 -as quick off road as on

http://www.dunlopix.com/Porsche070609a.jpg

No jokes please, its a Skoda

http://www.dunlopix.com/Skoda070609a.jpg

Aston Martin Vantage - one of two running today

http://www.dunlopix.com/Aston070609a.jpg

Theres a few more on my site, with another page to come tomorrow.

http://www.dunlopix.com/Rally%20Show%202009.html

C&C welcome.

Regards

Tim

[elvisrally]

Very nice selection of cars. Well captured

Elvis

[Coops]

Excellent, makes me regret going to Brands!

[Adphoto]

Excellent, makes me regret going to Brands!

Maybe not - the weather was foul with heavy rain all afternoon - many were packing up and going home by 3pm.

Unless you'd got a hallowed press pass like autofocus seems to have, the photography angles had mainly been screwed in the cause of 'health & safety' unless you paid an extra £6.50 (on top of the 24 quid entrance) to get higher up in a grandstand - they'd put plastic covered straw bales in line with the hairpin, 90° corners etc so you couldn't get a full car in shot :mad: Also, they'd moved the barriers out quite a bit so you couldn't get the lines of sight onto certain bits, e.g. the jump at the finish / 90° bend.

Ground-level view - what wheels?
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/0903/Apple/groundlevel.jpg

Higher view if you can avoid the brollies - note the weather conditions for virtually all of the afternoon :(
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/0903/Apple/higherlevel.jpg

Hey, a non-white escort, is that allowed? ;)
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/0903/Apple/chatsworth1.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/0903/Apple/chatsworth2.jpg

Guaranteed to get the kids plastered!
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/0903/Apple/trials1.jpg

Andrew

[GAELICSTORM7]

Cracking shots there guys, in what looks like some poor weather conditions and a health and safety farce as usual, I went to this the first year and it was great, hardly any barriers or restrictions, last year was worse, this year looks worse still, what a world we live in !

Alan

[Adphoto]

Hi Alan,

I'll drag a few more pics up for when I see you - don't know whether to bother with this again unless it's a decent forecast and you've got some stepladders...

After what you said, there was a remark from the commentators about how they try to get a different set of cars each year so people don't say that they've already seen certain ones - how come there's always 'thousands' of Mk II escorts...?

adp

[GAELICSTORM7]

Can you ever have too many escorts ?...................Nah not if there going sideways !!

From the photo's I've seen so far there looks to be abit of variety from last year at least, and there are some Skoda's....mmmmmmm Skodalishous ;-) (thanks for that cracking image Tim)

Alan

[Adphoto]

This is what most of the Skodas were doing - huddling together for warmth!

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/0903/Apple/skoda.jpg

[Adphoto]

what about one going sideways L to R?

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/0903/Apple/escort1.jpg

[muay_thai_dan]

and aston and a gt3 on the dirt??? oh my!