When you click on links to various merchants on this site and make a purchase, this can result in this site earning a commission. Affiliate programs and affiliations include, but are not limited to, the eBay Partner Network.
Well, better late than never - here are a few images from this years excellent British GP
On Saturday evening my son and I where wandering up the start / finish straight at Silverstone peering over the pit wall hoping to snatch the odd glimpse of some activity in the garages. I noticed a vehicle access gate had been left ajar so we popped into the pits....well, it would have been rude not to!!
Not only where the garages a hive of activity, with lots on engine noise!! but all the cars where wheeled into the pit lane for scrutinering. Very, very cool indeed.
I took a good few snps of the cars and was only shooed away once - when I poked my lens into the rear of the Ferrari!!!
How many 8 year olds get this close to a Ferrari less than 24 hours before a GP???
This is the steering wheel on the Ferrari (spot the horn ) - I believe it was the 1st time the Scuderia raced with this wheel - notice that large display screen in the upper centre portion of the wheel - the team can send text messages / instructions to the drivers on this.
The Jordan and the very clever 'Be On Edge' signage (plus some nice Honda badges!)
Seeing double - BAR noses!
Some of Matt's chums!!!
Hospital operating theatre's are less sterile than modern F1 garages:
You're a lucky man indeed
Looks like you had one helluva seat!
Awesome pictures. I've been to a Belgian GP where I had access to the pitlane as well.
Looking at these cars being worked from close-up is amazing.
BRAVO!!!! Those are some fine shots. I've got some of the Montreal GP that I will post as well. We stampeded the pit wall when the race was over, and I got some pretty good pics of the Jag F1 car
Yes - I was very lucky to get some great seats - I tried to book over the internet but it was showing 'all seats sold out'. In despiration I phoned Silverstone and they had a batch of retuned tickets directly opposite the front of the grid
We saw Rubens overtake 4 cars and repeatedly pass us 1' from the rear of JPM's Williams at 170mph . These guys have an awful lot of faith in each other and the other teams equipment - the slightest problem and they would have been into the mother of all accidents!
British GP, Silverstone 2002 (lots of pictures!)
) - I believe it was the 1st time the Scuderia raced with this wheel - notice that large display screen in the upper centre portion of the wheel - the team can send text messages / instructions to the drivers on this.
