Formula One 2010 | Comments appreciated.

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was it going full speed in that photo?

kinda wish all of the car was in the photo but i love the colors !

almost looks like your watching tv with that f1 thing in the top left

 

freeze3kgt: my secret, well not really a secret anyway ; was at the corners, while the cars are slower, making my panning easier. at full speed, my skills are below par.

 

i was thinking that ^^, only because getting a car going 100mph in focus is hard enough... have no idea what trying to get a f1 doing probably like 180ish is like... how fast do they go on straightaways?

 

on the straights, they are probably 200-280 km/h (sometimes more), I'm sure my shutter speed have to be 1/160s but I'll make the wheel look static, slower, I need steady hands. I should be using a monopod, perhaps next year.

 

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Cheers,
rangerman!

 

What camera and lens config for this shot?

 

That poor sod needs to get off the option tires

 

i want one!

 

Here is a 1991 Benneton that is lots cheaper to buy and to run:

Only $902,000 USD, a real bargain.

1991 Benetton B191-5 "Schuhmacher´s first F1 car!" Race Ready Spec Sheet

Better still for about $16,000 new, just get a shifter kart:

• 405lbs, w/driver (minimum racing weight)
• 6 speed
• 40 HP, water cooled, 125cc, 2 cycle, rotary valve induction Honda engine, running a mix of 108 octane racing gas and castor oil.
• top end 130 mph
• corner like you wouldn't believe.

A properly set-up shifter can do: 0 mph - 100 mph - 0 mph in 10 seconds and can easily out accelerate and corner a Chevrolet Corvette Z06. Ask me how I know!

 

guess no one is going to ask....How do you know Keith?

 

I didn't really expect anyone to ask, because the answer is kind of self evident.

Been there, done that.

All of the guys in the Corvette club were super ticked their $75,000 Z06's couldn't even come close to out autocrossing our shifter karts.

I only autocrossed the karts a couple of times. It's pretty boring compared to side-by-side, nose-to-tail kart racing.

Not many people appreciate how quick racing karts are, even the 100 cc, 12 hp, single gear, centrificle clutched karts. On a long track the 100cc karts are hitting about 95 mph and corner just about as good as a shifter. They just don't get from corner to corner quite as quickly.

Edit: I found a blurb on part of the reason shifter karting came to the US.

http://www.bondurant.com/kart_school/about_the_school.php