Tuesday, May 26, 2009
British Superbikes
Monday 25th May.. me and Chalkie went to the first event of the year at Donington. Me and Jon got him a True Biker pass to the three main events there this year for his birthday. Although he doesn't really follow the BSB (he prefers MotoGP) we were still both looking forward to it.. and using it as a bit of experience for the bigger events later. For starters we'll know which motorway exit it is!! Getting there and in was all very easy.. the long grass on the bottom of Moby made a nicer noise than Loughborough's speed bumps! Wandered around a bit aimlessly during the warm ups, always suprises me that the public are allowed to just wander about the pits and paddocks.. amongst the huge campervans and varying sizes of gazebo garages. No suprises that we managed to find a Harley stand hehe..
Got a wicked picture of Chalkie..
Not so good of me!
Trekked to the infield and sat on the Esses opposite the Goddards VIP stand for the first few races.
Very difficult to get decent focus at that speed.. don't know if a bigger zoom lens would help, or make it worse. Fairly irrelevant as can't afford it anyway.
Moved a bit to get shots of them going away from me down the straight..
Moved again for the first Superbikes race.. found a corner (hopefully they'd slow down!) with no fence in the way. Gutted that the best rider (Sylvain Guintou) fell off on the sighting lap (didn't even make it as far as the warm up!) .. hope he is ok soon.. he broke his leg. Chalkie very disappointed, think he really wanted to see him race (and he was the only Crescent Suzuki rider).
Lone rider coming over the hill..
The crowd is where we were a little while previously!
The guy behind (blurry No 9) is Chris Walker.. rides for Henderson Yamaha.. we were rooting for him.
Right.. time for my run now (spent far too long in bed watching Star Trek 2 and editing pictures of empty track!)
Got a wicked picture of Chalkie..
Not so good of me!
Trekked to the infield and sat on the Esses opposite the Goddards VIP stand for the first few races.Very difficult to get decent focus at that speed.. don't know if a bigger zoom lens would help, or make it worse. Fairly irrelevant as can't afford it anyway.
Moved a bit to get shots of them going away from me down the straight..
Moved again for the first Superbikes race.. found a corner (hopefully they'd slow down!) with no fence in the way. Gutted that the best rider (Sylvain Guintou) fell off on the sighting lap (didn't even make it as far as the warm up!) .. hope he is ok soon.. he broke his leg. Chalkie very disappointed, think he really wanted to see him race (and he was the only Crescent Suzuki rider).Lone rider coming over the hill..
The crowd is where we were a little while previously!
The guy behind (blurry No 9) is Chris Walker.. rides for Henderson Yamaha.. we were rooting for him.
Right.. time for my run now (spent far too long in bed watching Star Trek 2 and editing pictures of empty track!)# posted by Harley @ 9:59 AM 
