Alex's Silverstone testing photos

Just got the prints back, so I thought I'd share the best of them with you! I'm not using particularly high tech equipment so it's hardly Schlegelmilch quality! And please excuse the catch-fencing that is in the foreground of many of the shots, it couldn't really be helped!

Instead of packing the thread full of large pictures, I've put thumbnails in so just click on the pic to see them. Obviously, to fit them on my webspace, I've had to reduce the quality and size a bit, but hopefully they're ok... enjoy!





























Check out my testing shots and British GP movies from last year at my website: [homepage.ntlworld.com]




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alex

how much does it cost ££££ to get into silvestone to watch testing?
you must stay close then i take it
are the roads any better now?

for testing it is free, and the roads in silverstone would be easy for testing :P




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Jesus may be able to heal the sick and bring the dead back to life, but he can't do shît for low fps

great pics as usual al!

Btw wot sort of camera do you have, as ill be taking some pics at this years german rally

Thanks, Chris! My camera is a Konica Z-up 110 Super...



It's cheap (relatively) and cheerful, does the job!




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Thanks for the photos, Alex! I also very appreciate your thumbnails! I'm sure that must have taken quite some time, but it's very much appreciated!

coooooool!!! nice shots! hey, why didn't you load them in the screenshots thread?

as u can see the renault is much faster

:@ nah the jordan is lapping hime



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thanks for the info alex, i have a crappy one

Top stuff

i'm going up to donington race museum on saturday armed with my mates digital camera ( £600 worth, and the image quality is really good)


so if your all good little boys i might show the real life grandprix legend cars and the williams, mclarens and the new jaguar that are in there






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yay :P

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There's an interesting new section of track built at Woodcote which I photographed:



It's a chicane, not altogether disimilar from the Woodcote chicane of years past (although this is actually proper track), and from the rubber layed down, you can clearly see it's been used for some races. There's also a new "mini Luffield" which has been built on the inside of the Luffield (you can see it in one or two of the above photos), which joins onto this new complex. Does anyone know which categories are using it? BTCC? Formula Ford? Or are the FIA getting some disturbing ideas j/k




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It's a new trinangular highspeed oval for Champ cars - at least for Mini-Champs

Btw, great pics, _Alex_. If I should go to one of the GPs in Germany, I will try to get a digital camera first and post some pictures here, too.



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LMAO vader!!!! but surely your version is a bit fast? they have to put a chicane in there somewhere...

Not necessarily, since this oval is for CART. However, if CART (or IRL) was run by the FIA, all ovals would have chicanes - the same would go for dragster tracks, ski jumps and bowling alleys.



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its actually a new pitlane entrance (the "mini luffield" that i think is part of it too, theres no way you could use that for racing..... much to tight, and theres no feasable safe way to enter the pitlane from it, having said that i dont know what those lines are, certainly cant be racing or testing, as nothing goes on during the winter (when this has obviously been built)



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Great pics Alex!