Made my way to Brands Hatch Friday and Saturday for the testing/qualifying sessions of the Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters.
Both days started off cool and overcast - so bad on Saturday that the helicopter was grounded and the organsisers said that the DTM and Euro F3s wouldn't be running on track until the weather brightened up sufficiently for the chopper to be able to fly - essential for a medical emergency. The weather brightened up nicely towards the end of the sessions though, which was nice.
Most of the inside of Druids was massively fenced off due to a TV camera on a boom being operated by a Hobbit in a tent remotely - JP and his cronies went a bit overkill on this and wiped out any chance of some flames and lock ups under braking into the corner and some nicely framed shots from the apex. At least you could get them at the bottom of Paddock and pan them coming out towards what is now known as Bottom Bend. The section over the bridge was rammed for most of the day.
Was playing around with parameters and think that full contrast is a bit much for displaying on the web, have turned it down on the camera body now.
Tomczyck early on at Druids
The Hak goes to the seaside
La Rosa exiting Druids
Hakkinen
before he wanted to play at sandcastles
Paul di Resta on the Kerb @ Clearways
Through the fence again at Druids, 120-300+2xTC
Relatively high shutter speed of 1/100s for this one as these boys are quite fast.
Talking of pans...La Rosa @ 1/50s
Mika was quick all weekend, without really looking it
There was lots of tyre debris up at Druids
Gary Paffet didn't look too fast...
...poor old Vanina was last
Paul di Resta had an interesting paint job
Lucus Luhr chased by Martin Tomczyk into Druids
Finally what better way to end a thread with a pan...Susie managed 18th on the grid
There's some more dubious quality shots
'ere - including some from the F3 Euroseries, Lotus On Track, the FIM Sidecars and FPAs. The Lotus and Sidecars are just going up...
Ta
My take on the DTM at Brands Hatch
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