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7 July 200828 May 2017

BMW Sauber F1 Car

On Saturday I was lucky enough to photograph the BMW Sauber F1 Team’s Pit Lane Park at the Trafford Centre. It was great to get so close to such a powerful car, especially when I am starting to take a keen interest in motorsport. Obviously this weekend was the Grands Prix at Sliverstone, so Nick Heidfeld and Robert Kubica were down south trying to keep up with Hamilton! The driver of the car pictured above was Matt Howson, a British Formula 3 driver. Sadly as you read this the Pit Lane Park team will have finished the three day event and moved on. If it comes back to the Trafford Centre next year or moves on to a city near you, I would certainly recommend going down just to experience the noise (and for the free ear-plugs). The Park is put on by BMW Sauber in conjunction with Intel and Credit Suisse. It is completely free to the public and they are currently touring Europe.

27 June 200828 May 2017

Red Subaru Impreza at Malcolm Wilson Rally

Subaru’s are world famous rally cars, and the above photograph shows one of many that were racing at the 2008 Malcolm Wilson Rally up in the Lake District. I particularly like the way the back wheels are very blurred and the spray to the left of the car from a large puddle. Photographing any fast moving sports is always a challenge that I enjoy and although I have only been to one rally so far, the access for photographers is fantastic compared to a lot of other motor sports such as F1. Hopefully next March I will be back in Cockermouth for the Malcolm Wilson Rally 2009.

25 April 200828 May 2017

Subaru Impreza at Malcolm Wilson Rally

I was stood in Whinlatter Forest a few months ago waiting for cars to come racing around the corner. As far as I could tell, they weren’t setting off in any kind of order on the lists printed off the website and so I never knew what car or class of car was going to come power sliding around the corner towards my camera. Obviously, these cars are very loud and I could hear this one coming from quite far away. This is one of the sharpest ones in my set of photographs that were taken from this point and with the splash from a small puddle it makes the image much more powerful and dynamic in my opinion.

12 March 200828 May 2017

Ford Focus RS on Rally with Splash

My dad drives a Ford Focus, but thankfully not like this! Surprisingly Hugh Hunter, the driver of this car was in the top three or four over the ten stages and completed the 45 mile rally, presumably without a bumper for the majority of the race. The water splash looks extremely dramatic here and by the looks of things scares the co-driver a lot. It almost looks more like smoke than water, but it was just a large muddy puddle. It is probably a good job there are no night stages to the Malcolm Wilson rally as with only one headlight it would be almost impossible to finish the race.