My Motorsport Photos - Update - 16th November Roger Clark historic rally

Milliethemutt · May 14, 2007

Harewood Hill last Saturday. Quite a good range of cars including a Ferrari class and the Caterham academy. My friend was in his 205 Gti in his first ever event. It was damp to start and he was a little bit nervous but it dried out quite quick after the first run.

The panarama is my first attempt. The corner with the close ups is just off to the right and the Elise is crossing the timing beam sideways.

Joey D · May 15, 2007

Cool pictures! The panorama one came out decently well.

Gonz013 · May 15, 2007

Very Nice - love the sideways Elise!

TheCracker · May 15, 2007

Nice to see Harewood hillclimb again, i used to live about 10 minutes away. It's probably been 15 years since i last went, they certainly didn't have the the downhill section back then. Can you believe they have a race track running straight through the middle of a working farm yard!? I've never had the pleasure of competing there, but my dad and uncle used to compete there regularly - i even have a photo somewhere of my grandad entering the long lefthander after the farm yard in one of the first ever Lotus Cortinas - it was his company car at the time!

Got plenty of good memories (if a little cold and wind swept) of this place 👍

Milliethemutt · May 15, 2007

TheCracker
if a little cold and wind swept 👍

It can be a little bit on the bleak side at times. We usually get there as early as we can so you can park at the front row and see the whole track from inside the car if need be. I took the panarama shots from where we parked.

GT40 MKII · May 15, 2007

what is the demented looking yellow thing, it looks kinda like a really highly modded audi TT

TheCracker · May 15, 2007

GT40 MKII
what is the demented looking yellow thing, it looks kinda like a really highly modded audi TT

I think it's a spaceframe CF 'silhouette' Audi TT with a 4.2 V8 driven by a guy called Simon Bainbridge.

Serge.D · May 15, 2007

Nice pictures.👍

Milliethemutt · May 15, 2007

TheCracker
I think it's a spaceframe CF 'silhouette' Audi TT with a 4.2 V8 driven by a guy called Simon Bainbridge.

Bang on. Mid mounted 4.2 Turbo V8. It sounds properly insane. He used to have an old school S2 coupe with loads of carbon bits on.

A friend took some videos so I'll try and get them and put them up somewhere.

Roo · May 15, 2007

Awesome pictures! The panorama came out beautifully. Thanks for posting 👍

Milliethemutt · May 15, 2007

Cheers. Just found a run from one of the Westfields from the same day.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kO8EUaHVGy0

This one.

jammyozzy · May 15, 2007

7ht pic down, car #123 - is that an Elan? It makes me want one even more than I do now. :sly:

TheCracker · May 16, 2007

Milliethemutt
Bang on. Mid mounted 4.2 Turbo V8. It sounds properly insane. He used to have an old school S2 coupe with loads of carbon bits on.

I wonder if it's this unidentified Audi S2 Coupe i photographed at the Race Retro exhibition a month or so ago? - it certainly had a lot pf CF on it.

Milliethemutt · May 16, 2007

jammyozzy
7ht pic down, car #123 - is that an Elan? It makes me want one even more than I do now.

Yes. It was absolutely immaculately prepared and our favourite car of the day. A few more pics then just for you....

Cracker - Not sure if that is it but there's a picture of it with it's paint as I remember it here http://www.fibre-lyte.co.uk

TheCracker · May 16, 2007

Milliethemutt
Cracker - Not sure if that is it but there's a picture of it with it's paint as I remember it here http://www.fibre-lyte.co.uk

It's similar looking, but i think the one i saw was even more hardcore - it certainly couldn't have been road legal like the one on the fibre-lyte site.

Milliethemutt · May 26, 2007

I've changed the name of the thread and will just keep this one going with updates of other motorsport events I go to. Next up will be Le Mans but in the meantime I went to the Jim Clark rally in the Scottish Borders last night.

The sun had now set and light was becoming an issue for the photos.

At this point I more or less gave up trying to take pictures of the cars and went to try and get some cool long exposure shots.

Milliethemutt · Jun 20, 2007

Just got back from Le Mans yesterday but was sooooooooooo tired (it took from 11am Monday until 4:30am Tuesday to drive back) so I'm only posting pics now.

Our camp (taken on the first day when the site was relatively quiet)

Some of the road cars you see there are super rare. We saw 3 Ultimas all weekend including a roadster.

Cosworth powered Mk1

I know most of you will already know it rained a bit.

It gets a bit interesting on the campsites

That's the buildup sorted, I'll get back on later with photos of the actual race.

Milliethemutt · Jun 20, 2007

Right then, here's the race pictures. It totally goes to show how difficult it is to get pictures of super fast gt cars once the light starts to go so some are a bit iffy but I like them. The weather was so bad once we got back out to see the race that I didn't really get any pictures of the finish and we ended up watching the end from the Tetre Rouge bar.

On the Audi stand in the village

TheCracker · Jun 28, 2007

Great shots, some really nice photos there - not noticed that you'd posted any up of Le Mans.

I've been meaning to look this up since i saw some of the race footage on Motors TV - does anyone know what the 3 small ights on the side of each car indicates?

Serge.D · Jun 28, 2007

TheCracker
Great shots, some really nice photos there - not noticed that you'd posted any up of Le Mans.

I've been meaning to look this up since i saw some of the race footage on Motors TV - does anyone know what the 3 small ights on the side of each car indicates?

I think it's one for first place,two for second and three for third place.(GT1,GT2, LMP1,LMP2)

serge

ROAD_DOGG33J · Jun 28, 2007

SERGE.DENAYER
I think it's one for first place,two for second and three for third place.(GT1,GT2, LMP1,LMP2)

serge

Yeah, they're colored for the different classes

Milliethemutt · Jun 29, 2007

TheCracker
Great shots, some really nice photos there - not noticed that you'd posted any up of Le Mans.

Cheers, it was our first time and we are planning next year already. Oh dear, this could turn into an expensive hobby.

Pebb · Jun 30, 2007

I would love to go to the LeMans 24 hours someday, however I am looking to go to the LeMans Championship Silverstone round.

F1GTR · Jun 30, 2007

Can you post the full res of the Mini in the first shot? Excellent pictures. 👍

Milliethemutt · Jul 1, 2007

F1GTR
Can you post the full res of the Mini in the first shot? Excellent pictures. 👍

Er, no. It's too big (3.5meg) to go on imageshack. PM me your email and I'll send it.

Milliethemutt · Jul 1, 2007

Went to a road rally consisting of autotests today. Only got to see one test really (saw about 5 minutes of another) but the drive there and back was worth it.

The road I went along was the A686 from Haydon Bridge to Penrith.

http://www.multimap.com/map/browse....epicon=&zm=0&scale=500000&left.x=6&left.y=164

Milliethemutt · Jul 9, 2007

Harewood Hillclimb again yesterday for my friends second event. Less range of cars this time due to the British Hillclimb round being held this weekend but still some nice and interesting cars there.

My friend in his 205, probably trying a bit too hard as he fluffed a change going from 2nd to 3rd on his previous best and was gutted as it was up the long straight and probably cost him over a second.

Milliethemutt · Aug 22, 2007

Another rally, actually a few weeks ago but I've only got my photobucket account sorted in the last few days - image shack is pap.

This was a single venue event where they set up a course and then run it as a stage doing 3 laps. It means you get interesting passes as the slower stuff starts to run while the faster cars are still on stage - it can get quite close.

Milliethemutt · Sep 9, 2007

A rally at the Otterburn ranges in Northumberland (where Top Gear fired the Reliant Shuttle) today. Usual mix of stuff but it was also a round of a E30 325 championship.

Milliethemutt · Sep 30, 2007

I went to the Colin McRae stages rally yesterday in Scotland, it was a 4 hour or so drive to get there and we only got to see one stage but it was well worth it. The entrance fee was a donation to Colins favourite charities and everyone seemed to be tackling the stages in Colin style judging by the amount of previously rolled cars we saw.

The following 2 cars are RWD.

My Motorsport Photos - Update - 16th November Roger Clark historic rally

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