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Went to the World Series by Renault event at Donington today

Here are some of my pics on Flickr, it is the 1st time i've used my camera for a motorsport event

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"When you begin in this sport you are given a chequebook. Every time you have a big one you must write a check to the angels. The trick is to finish your career before you empty the chequebook".

very nice!

who was driving the Renault f1 car?

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RIP Jules, never to be forgotten. #KeepFightingMichael

Not sure if any of the GPGers are familiar with urban exploration, the slightly unsafe past time of exploring abandoned places like factories and warehouses. Yesterday I met up with a couple of folks from a forum to go exploring an old threads factory which closed in 2004 after over 100 years of producing threads.

We climbed over an old rickety bridge to get in which looked like it was going to fall apart: the thought of a 30ft drop into knee-deep water was not a nice thought.

We wandered around taking pictures for a while and we were in the process of removing some glass from a window to climb through when someone spotted a security guard, so we ran as fast as possible in the only direction we could: up some stairs! 4 flights up and we encountered two locked doors. That's it: surely we'd be caught by security, police called, charged with breaking and entering and trespassing...

The only way was down, despite what Yazz says. Faced with four guys and one girl, the security guard was in no position to argue with us. He promptly turned out to be the nicest security guard ever, who told us if we wanted to look around, he'd have let us in. He then showed us around all the really cool places of this huge factory. Quite a lot was sealed off due to asbestos but the rest of it was still filled with the original machinery. Very cool indeed.

Most of us had cameras, so feel free to check out the pictures:

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Muks_C Wrote:
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> very nice!
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> who was driving the Renault f1 car?

Jonathan Cochet

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Zcott Wrote:
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> Not sure if any of the GPGers are familiar with
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> [www.flickr.com]

Some good shots there I've never gone exploring them but there is something about abandoned places. Eery, but in a cool way I guess.

cheers Peat

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RIP Jules, never to be forgotten. #KeepFightingMichael

Couple of stills from my camcorder at the Renault World Series

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this may be a silly question, but i've wondered about it for a long time now. your name is Neil, so why is your username Glyn, Glyn? is it just a nickname or something?

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RIP Jules, never to be forgotten. #KeepFightingMichael

It's Welsh for 'cheese'.

gav Wrote:
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> It's Welsh for 'cheese'.

That is correct. My full translated name is Neil Cheese Stratton

Says it all really. :D

More importantly, what the hell were you doing up at 6:20am?

I think you need to change your forum clock, cos it was 8:20

Hmm. My work PC and this one are 2 hours apart according to this site. Sweet.

Did you go to Donington on Sat or Sun Neil, i went on Sat, I wanted one of them tyres.

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"When you begin in this sport you are given a chequebook. Every time you have a big one you must write a check to the angels. The trick is to finish your career before you empty the chequebook".

he went sunday, and where were they getting those tyres from? i saw loads ppl walk past with them

also saw one guy walk past with a front wing :|

Sim

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"I'd love to know what goes on in that crazy head of yours sometimes, Sim..." - Locke Cole

At the LMS they wouldn't even give us bits that fell off cars in accidents because the teams get grumpy that they want everything back

Here's a little video of the F1 car at the World Series -> [glyn.vadertrophy.com]

I haven't seen a modern F1 car being driven flat out, but Ian tells me it sounded like he was short shifting quite a bit.

thanks for the clip Glyn/Neil/Cheese.

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RIP Jules, never to be forgotten. #KeepFightingMichael

I got my new lens yesterday, and it feels like an awesome piece of kit. It's also really inspiring lens to take photos with, as it's so wide!







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My photo gallery: [viltzu86.deviantart.com]

Canon 10-22 lens villej?