Le Mans Series - Autosport 1000Km of Silverstone.

It's been 2 months since i pointed the camera at anything Motorsport related, so on Sunday i made the 200 mile journey to Silverstone.

Now, it's not the track i'd normally choose to re-ignite my rapidly dwindling interest in Motorsports, but it seem to have done the trick. Even though i had to leave early it was a superb event that i thoroughly enjoyed!!

Anyway, enough of my pointless drivel, on with the show..


1. And they're off!. Alan McNish (Audi R15 TDi) leads Anthony Davidson (Peugeot 908 HDi) on the charge towards Copse Corner..

Nice photos. Like the aston.

Fantastic shots Geoff. Like you I managed to get to Silverstone for the LMS event after a long break from Motorsport photography - I have been photographing lots of weddings over the summer instead. Difficult to get some motion blur in the wedding shots though!

Glad you had a good day at Silverstone. It was nice that the weather was unusually warm for Silverstone - We are not used to being treated to that!

Love the shot of the Aston Vantage. Lovely colour scheme on that car

I will get round to posting some of my photo's in the next couple of days hopefully.

Excellent shots!

I especially like the last one, but I'm a sucker for Gulf colors.

Nice shots!!!!

Really good Geoff,best I have seen from this event .
Well done making the effort ,blooming long way for you ,but fair play.
Pons

Great photos.

Great set of shots for a great event

Excellent work!

Very nice shots !!!

One question: The shots at the start of the race out of Copse into Maggotts done from the left side of the track, were these shot from behind the fence or did you have press access ?

The last time I was at Silverstone is quite some time ago. Also, it was raining all weekend then and I hardly moved around. This weekend I struggled finding some good spots to get some decent pictures from behind the fence.

I was together with the KSM crew and had a great blast. Their car is the #39 open Lola Judd. If you have any pictures of that one please post them.

Thanks everyone, the comments are much appreciated

motorsportmad wrote in post #10907483
Nice photos. Like the aston.

I'm a sucker for anything in GUlf colours and the noise that engine makes is something else !!

Kevbuts wrote in post #10908919
Fantastic shots Geoff. Like you I managed to get to Silverstone for the LMS event after a long break from Motorsport photography - I have been photographing lots of weddings over the summer instead. Difficult to get some motion blur in the wedding shots though!

Glad you had a good day at Silverstone. It was nice that the weather was unusually warm for Silverstone - We are not used to being treated to that!

It's been a long time since i can honestly say i enjoyed a visit to Silverstone, but the LMS was excellent...so much so i think i'll be at the Britcar 24 next month.

Hope you enjoyed your break as much as i did Kev

Hailwood wrote in post #10910566
I especially like the last one, but I'm a sucker for Gulf colors.

We're predictable us Motorsport fans, aren't we ? !

STP03BlueSi wrote in post #10910905
Nice shots!!!!

I thank you !

chrispons wrote in post #10911802
Really good Geoff,best I have seen from this event .
Well done making the effort ,blooming long way for you ,but fair play.
Pons

High praise indeed . To be honest it's not that bad a drive. Oulton Park is much closer but there's only 30-45 minutes difference in journey time...Motorways make life too easy.

urbansickness wrote in post #10912210
Great photos.

rahal wrote in post #10912298
Great set of shots for a great event

I thank you both !

PhotosGuy wrote in post #10913273
Excellent work!

Crikey. Praise from a Mod. I have arrived

hgb wrote in post #10913429
Very nice shots !!!

One question: The shots at the start of the race out of Copse into Maggotts done from the left side of the track, were these shot from behind the fence or did you have press access ?
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They're all from Public areas so the Copse shots are from behind the T-Rex fence. Even though i've been to Silverstone a few times over the years, it's an angle i've never tried due to that fence.

As we had a 45 car grid i thought i'd give it a go this time and i'm quite glad i did. The fence has taken away a bit of quality IMO but you can't have everything, can you ?

I'll see what i have of the #39 car....

hgb wrote in post #10913429
Very nice shots !!!

One question: The shots at the start of the race out of Copse into Maggotts done from the left side of the track, were these shot from behind the fence or did you have press access ?

The last time I was at Silverstone is quite some time ago. Also, it was raining all weekend then and I hardly moved around. This weekend I struggled finding some good spots to get some decent pictures from behind the fence.

I was together with the KSM crew and had a great blast. Their car is the #39 open Lola Judd. If you have any pictures of that one please post them.

Don't mean to barge in on your thread Geoff, but I had a look through my shots from Saturday and found only one of the KSM Lola #39 taken down at Stowe Corner. Here it is hgb:

Great set Geoff.....

I also had a run down...we went on Friday night and to catch some of the CER..
What a great event looking forward to next year....camped next to some lads who went to Le Mans 24...well said they had been going for the last 16yrs...Trying to talk us into to giving it a go, after this event sure am tempted.

Both Lola-Aston Martins and the Vantage sounded the best cars in the field by far.

Alan
( hope to sort through all 1500-2000 pics very soon )

Little taster..Am I ok doing this

hgb wrote in post #10913429
I was together with the KSM crew and had a great blast. Their car is the #39 open Lola Judd. If you have any pictures of that one please post them.

Ive got 5 pictures uploaded to my site of number 39. Link in my sig.

Kevbuts wrote in post #10915469
Don't mean to barge in on your thread Geoff, but I had a look through my shots from Saturday and found only one of the KSM Lola #39 taken down at Stowe Corner. Here it is hgb:

Hopefully Geoff will have a few more for you too.

Thanks Kevin, that's Jonathan Kennard in the car. He was driving the second stint. Jean de Pourtales was the starting driver. Unfortunately, he got hit by one of the FLM cars which resulted in a lengthy pit stop to realign the suspension and fit a new rear hood. These 15 minutes were too much time lost for a podium. The last stint was done by Lucas Ordoñez. The team still managed a third place in the Eco Challenge, though. I still have to sort out my pictures.

Thanks also to Andy, these are great pictures.

Alan, DO Le Mans in 2011 !!! I've been going for the past 11 years. If you enjoyed Silverstone you will be blown away by Le Mans.