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What I did on Monday mornings.
As a 90’s kid most of us would have grown up spending our mornings watching Cheez TV before we left for school. From Tuesdays to Fridays I was no different; my mornings were dedicated to the Ninja Turtles, Pokemon, Dragon Ball Z and the list goes on. But come Monday mornings I’d probably be out of the loop with my classmates as they speak about how Goku just dropped a spirit bomb on Frieza. I’d be a little bit confused as from an age of 5 I grew up watching the Indycar series on Monday mornings. Usually I’d never get the chance to watch the races live since the series is predominantly based in the USA and I would have been tucked into bed by my mother well before these races had begun. So instead my older brother had each race taped on video (Yes we still used VCR’s back then) ready for me to watch them the next morning. I stumbled across our collection of tapes today and we just about have every race from the early 90’s to about 2006. Watching these races was my childhood and has had huge effect on my interest in motor racing and cars. You could say without these tapes I would not be the person I am today.
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Honda Nationals from the Pit lane
You might be wondering why the title of this post is called ‘Honda Nationals from the Pit lane’. I mean what kind of photographer comes to a track focused event and doesn’t take on-track shots? What a lazy and incompetent photographer! Well this weekend I was ‘that’ photographer and I’ll tell you why I was. When the Honda Nationals was introduced back into the scene two years ago it was organised and promoted as a social event. In 2011 and 2012 I competed in the Cars For Hope Honda Integra; I had a great time at these events because I was very close to the Honda scene, almost everyone in the paddock was a friend and if they weren’t a quick conversation would fix that right up. Unfortunately our car wasn’t quite ready to compete this year but I was still very keen to make the trip down to Winton raceway to have a look. Usually when I’m on the job as a photographer I’d have a set brief that I’ve been assigned from my employer and I’d have to follow the brief meticulously. This weekend I could create this brief myself and that meant hanging out with mates, ALL DAY! I did make it out on to the track but I was simply too busy in the passenger seat shouting at my mates to get on the gas earlier at corner exits or driving their cars myself. There was almost no time to whip out the camera except for a few moments throughout the day and those moments are captured below.
Overall Results:
1. Brandon Lockwood BYP Racing – Integra Type R (DC2) – 1:31.3800
2. Adam Casmiri JDM Yard – Integra Type R (DC5) – 1:33.3770
3. Duncan Shiu – Integra VTi-R (DC2) – 1:34.9470ホープは真個
