Please stand behind the line.....

[elansprint72]

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[dodders]

I rather envy you getting so close.

It's pretty hopeless behind the wire.

Nice images you produce all the time. Keep it up.

[stuny]

Pete -

 

Gorgeous for subject, composition, detail, light and color. The Fords look magnificently prepared.

[elansprint72]

Rod and Stu, thanks for your considered and informed observations. Minority crowds, huh? This one will keep me in equipment for the next 12 months.

[Guest flatfour]

I remember seeing a Le Mans start practice, in I think the 1970s, where some British drivers practised running across the track at Goodwood and then jumping, literally, into their cars. Nowadays it seems to take ages to get into a Le Mans car with all the belts and tube connections. Rolling starts just aren't the same and I can't see why they were stopped really. It would certainly make designers think about rapid ingress and egress if they could go back to proper "Le Mans" starts. Someone will scream safety but motor racing is not about safety it's about speed. I assume from your pictures Pete that you are a marshall - a great bunch of blokes who do a good job for little real thanks. British marshalls are the best with in my experience the Latins at the bottom.

[elansprint72]

I remember seeing a Le Mans start practice, in I think the 1970s, where some British drivers practised running across the track at Goodwood and then jumping, literally, into their cars. Nowadays it seems to take ages to get into a Le Mans car with all the belts and tube connections. Rolling starts just aren't the same and I can't see why they were stopped really. It would certainly make designers think about rapid ingress and egress if they could go back to proper "Le Mans" starts. Someone will scream safety but motor racing is not about safety it's about speed. I assume from your pictures Pete that you are a marshall - a great bunch of blokes who do a good job for little real thanks. British marshalls are the best with in my experience the Latins at the bottom.

 

At the Le Mans Classic seat-belts are only mandatory in cars from 1968 (which was the year they were made compulsory in all current racing cars).

Marshals do not have time to take photographs, they are there for safety reasons, e.g. covering up the mangled corpses of drivers who did not wear belts and were thrown out of their cars.

I am a motor-sports photographer; along with three others I shot the photos for the 44 page participants invitation pack for last year's event (now a collector's item on e-bay).

 

Your repugnant slur on "Latins" shows, yet again, just how out of touch you are with the real world.

[Guest flatfour]

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Oh dear Pete, you are stressed out. My experience of marshalls at motor circuits are simply mine. At UK circuits I have found them to be excellent even when they occasionally have stupid selfish photographers getting in the way! My experiences in Italy and France are not so good. My co-driver crashed at Monza and one of the marshalls asked for a cash payment to stop him from sending a photo to the press. In France they are just not as good, probably more to do with training. I am of course talking of up to 5 years ago when I stopped being involved in serious motor sport.