For the first time in a few years, I attended my 'home' race (even though I didn't go on raceday!). New track layout was interesting, and I also stopped by a bit of a car show set up downtown to support the race. Here are some of my favourite pix from the day:

The only F1 car there! 07 or 08 vintage Toyota show car, brought by Bridgestone:


One day I would like one of these in my garage (this was a pace car for the Northern Alberta Sportscar Club support event):










I wish Takuma Sato had more time in F1, so here's hoping he finds more success in Indycars:


"Mr. Ashley Judd":










everyone's (every guy's?) favourite Indycar racer, especially for her Go Daddy commercials







Would love this car in my garage even more than the GT3 - love the vanity plate!:




my attempt at an 'art' shot, showing a Ferrari 512BB reflected in the rear quarter of the Scuderia:




All the photos of the Indycars were shot at the end of the run off area by turn 1. The cars were decelerating and then turning, so I got a good chance to follow them as they were 'slow' at that point. I was shooting through the spectator fencing, and then found a gap in the 'real' fencing that was left open for accredited photographers. Worked out well! I've been to a bunch of ChampCar/Indy/F1 races, not to mention the Goodwood Festival of Speed twice, and these are the best 'action' shots I've been able to take at a major motorsports event. Fun!

 

Definitely lots of action at Turn 1. I spent most of Saturday there and part of Sunday, then moved to Turn 5 (where my actual seat was) for the Indy race.

I saw a bunch of people over where you were shooting from so knew I couldn't get in there. That's awesome that you could fire through the fence. I'll post mine up in the next few days, probably.

 

Nice shots mang. I didnt bring my camera to all of the off-track events due to the copious amount of drinking. Surprised you didnt shoot the:

72 dino
Fxx enzo
matte black scud
acr
gulf gt40
sls

 

Heh, you know I didn't see the Dino! I saw all of the others except for the matte black Scuderia (I only saw one Scud there, the one I shot). I shot pix of most of others you mentioned, but didn't post them. The cars were kinda packed tight together so it was difficult to shoot them, and my wife wanted to get going so we only hung around there for maybe 10-15 minutes. Oh, and the Enzo was ugly because of all the fake FXX crap on it, and I was running out of battery power too! I did get a pic of the Dymag wheels on the Ford GT though.

I was surprised that not more people shot from where I was shooting. I saw a bit of Indy Lights from there, and as soon as I saw how close the cars were, I figured it'd be a great place to shoot Indy quali, so we went back for that part of the day. A few more people gathered there, but not too many. Probably busier on race day. I did try to shoot 'through' both layers of fencing, but it didn't seem to work out that well, I kept getting the fencing in the shot.

 

i want one!!