The 2006 Petit Le Mans

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m.piedgros
Great shots!

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Thanks. I am going to take my tripod next time so that I can get clear night shots. The shutter has to remain open for a second to get visible night shots and I'm not steady enough to make that work clearly. I didn't think about that ahead of time and the few clear night shots I did get were some of the best looking pictures. With a tripod I could have gotten some really great shots with great effects.

I am going to try and convert my video files tonight and hopefully get those uploaded sometime next week.
 
FoolKiller did have some pretty nice snapshots. Good job, mate. Oh, and don't worry about getting negative looks. If you do encounter any Georgia fans, this is simple to say: "at least our Men's basketball team can actually WIN games unlike your (Georgia) men's basketball team!" You can never get away from college sports!

But nice pictures.
 
JohnBM01
FoolKiller did have some pretty nice snapshots. Good job, mate. Oh, and don't worry about getting negative looks. If you do encounter any Georgia fans, this is simple to say: "at least our Men's basketball team can actually WIN games unlike your (Georgia) men's basketball team!" You can never get away from college sports!
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I am sure they could fire back the same way about football, but teh tide may be changing. But that is for the other threads.

But nice pictures.
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Thanks, I just wish I could have done some better. I had 275 on the memory card but there were too many with motion blur or bad focus because they were going too fast for the auto focus to lock on. I know I didn't have time to manually focus.
 
👍 Awesome shots. The fact that you saw those gorgeous, and rare GTR-1s though doesn't suprise me. Such gorgeous GT1 cars.
 
Keep in mind that those mid-late 1990s GT race cars were the cars that basically got me into sportscar racing. I came up in around 1998 or so. I've hated that I didn't have Speedvision or something so that I couldn't see these cars in action. FoolKiller's getting mad love from me for photographing those cars.
 
JohnBM01
I'll just want to briefly talk about the caution deals. I think the Petit Le Mans ended up with about five cautions. One of the things Speed analyst, Dorsey S. talked about was about "sharing the track." In my view, there is greater disparity in speeds in the ALMS than in Rolex Sports Cars. You have only two classes in the Rolex ranks while you have four classes in the ALMS. If you want to learn track discipline and making smart decisions on track, just look at the ALMS. The GT machines have to try to get out of the way of the prototypes. The prototype drivers have to make smart passes to make sure that their car doesn't become part of a track's scenery. But all kinds of tough luck and hard hits fueled a lot of cautions.

With the five or so Safety Car (or Pace Car) periods, do you think the race was sloppy, a little slow, or just right?
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OK, I am sitting at work watching the video from the race as I type this and from being able to see every accident there is it truly does appear to be sloppy.

In person you only see what happens in front of you, but on TV you see every accident. It is hard to see how much bumping is going on, but it appears there was enough small incidents to define a slaoppy race.

Of course, I am only about 4.5 hours into the race so I haven't seen everything. It may get much cleaner later.
 

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