cbwaters wrote:

> But Doug, the Lola is all wobbly looking...didn't you have your 
> graduated anti-heat-shimmer filter fitted?

I'm looking for a PS plugin ... none of that old-fangled flat glass in
front of my curved glass thing for me. ;-)

> Or perhaps the Lola was already starting to burn...(it later retired 
> in a fairly decent-sized fire)  Those Dyson guys just have bad luck.

Nah, it didn't burn until quite a bit later, IIRC.  That shot was either
the recon lap, the second recon lap, or one of the first two or three
race laps.  That's about as long as I stayed in that spot.  I wasn't
exactly hoping for a wreck, but I wouldn't have minded catching a
sequence like the one I got last year.

And, yes, those Dyson guys do have some hard luck, it seems.  But you've
gotta watch James Weaver in the #16 Dyson Lola carve up Road Atlanta
from up close.  He's just amazing.  He schools the field every year in
maximizing the run from turn two through track out after turn five, the
trickiest part of the track except popping over the hill at eleven and
racing down and through turn twelve.  I've got a shot of him entering
turn seven with either the 200 or 300, so you just see him and about
half of the car around him, and you can even recognize him through the
visor of his helmet.

> Good shot Doug, both of them.  I'm still mad you can shoot from 
> outside turn 1 like that :)

If we can get you off your day job on weekends occasionally, I can show
you how it's done.  It's starting to look like in the future I might be
able to get full credentials for the pro events through the local SCCA
region's newsletter (I already have the run of the place for
non-motorcycle amateur events).  If so, I expect I'll be spending more
time at the track beyond driving.

> CW
> missed the race for work, again.

Dude, you've /gotta/ get a different job. :-D

-- 
Thanks,
DougF (KG4LMZ)

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